Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
In the struggle for women's suffrage, how did African American women [...] »
How did the women's suffrage movement use the rise of journalism to its [...] »
Jefferson, surprised by the Louisiana Purchase? Maybe not. Historian Leah [...] »
Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »
Watch Briana Zavadil White introduce teachers to portraits of inventors and [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade class analyzes letters about the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Discover historic landscapes with this guide to reading the land produced by [...] »
Source and approach letters and diaries with historical thinking.
[...] »Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »