Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
Make large-scale historic events like the Holocaust personal with artifacts [...] »
Is reading a piece of historic literature once enough? Not if you want to [...] »
Use autobiographies to deconstruct views of slavery and historical heroes. [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
Teaching in Action
A 4th-grade teacher shows strategies for encouraging and supporting student [...] »
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Every town has a scattering of historical markers and statues. Discover what [...] »
Watch a scholar interpret letters from labor activist and reformer Sarah [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »