The PIH Network is a collaborative community of practice blending the expertise of teacher educators, classroom teachers, and content specialists to develop, test, and refine instruction designed to engage students in the investigation of questions of the public good.
Meet the PIH Directors
Dr. Jada Kohlmeier, Director
Dr. Jesús Tirado, Associate Director
How should we promote fairness and justice?
What is the fairest way to distribute resources?
When should the government restrict freedom?
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Persistent Issues
All lessons and units are focused on persistent issues that make topics relevant and authentic to students.
When should citizens resist authority?
When should one nation interfere with another?
Lesson Library
Robust lesson interface
Lessons provide procedure narrative, materials and many include video clips of both implementation and reflection by the teacher. All lessons features have been tested in classrooms.
Lessons connected to persistent issues
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World History
What should be the response of authorities to the Black Death?
Students conduct a parliamentary hearing deliberating if Europe should embrace economic, political, and religious changes following the Black Death.
U.S. History
Andrew Jackson's veto of the Bank of the U.S.
Students draw visual metaphors arguing in favor or opposing Jackson’s bank veto.
U.S. Government
When is the president justified in issuing executive orders?
Students rank several executive orders from most to least justified and set a standard for when presidents should have this authority.
Geography
What should the United Nations do to increase access to clean water?
Students deliberate in Model UN whether it should support corporations owning water rights in the developing world as a way to increase access to clean water.
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