Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
What do the contents of pockets say about their owners? TAH teachers model [...] »
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
Challenge students to gather evidence from multiple primary sources. Here, a [...] »
Teaching in Action
Elementary teacher Karen Eanes hooks her students with engaging historical [...] »
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
This website by the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery will help students [...] »
These worksheets from the Library of Congress help students analyze primary [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »