Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
Donald A. Ritchie, Historian of the U.S. Senate, asks how a political [...] »
Professor Meredith Lair examines a 1971 political cartoon and what it says [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
Teaching in Action
How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers [...] »
Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch [...] »
Using Primary Sources
The National History Day’s guidelines for defining and locating [...] »
National Park Service lesson plans, teaching materials, and vibrant images [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
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 students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »