Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
Who was Jane Addams, and how is her article "Why Women Should Vote" still [...] »
A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents.
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Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
Teaching in Action
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Teacher Eva La Mar's third graders become historians, writers, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »