Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
What does an 1853 daguerreotype have to say? Plenty, says Frank Goodyear, [...] »
One institution, two very different perspectives. An expert contrasts [...] »
Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
A Cherokee Nation Supreme Court document reveals the fluidity of racial [...] »
Teaching in Action
Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Work with early twentieth-century film as historical evidence. What [...] »
Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
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 [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »