Welcome to Best Practices
Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Chandra Manning discusses the song “John Brown's Body,” and how music can be [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
How does the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, DC, depict Grant and [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner introduces educators to the World War II [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner engages educators in close questioning of the [...] »
Teaching in Action
Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
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Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Using Primary Sources
In this series of exercises, students are presented with Native American [...] »
The National History Day’s guidelines for defining and locating [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »