Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Can you trust a biography? Historian Tiya Miles analyzes an 1869 biography [...] »
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
Textbooks describe segregation in a few pages, but these artists share [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Looking for new ideas on how to teach with the historic places in your [...] »
Integrate these two guides into your curriculum to help students develop [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »