Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
How do the buildings and artifacts at Mount Vernon reflect the lives of the [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »
Absolving the guilty and punishing the innocent. Historian Elizabeth Reis [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch this 9th-grade teacher lead his class in planning, writing, and [...] »
Ninth-grade teacher Jamie Kimbrough asked her students to stand in Kennedy's [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Teach students how to utilize primary sources with this game from [...] »
What messages are hidden in art and architecture? Explore the Library of [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »