MNEA Connects: 5-Part Series
Missouri NEA is pleased to bring our members a 5-part series on prosocial classrooms and student behavior.
Episode I: Introduction to Prosocial Education
Episode II: Pillar I: Praise
Episode III: Inductive Discipline
Episode IV: Teacher-Student Relationships
Episode V: Emotionally Upbeat Classrooms
Guest Hosts:
Dr. Christi Bergin
Research Emerita and Director of the Prosocial Development & Education Research Lab at the University of Missouri
Dr. Jen Foster
Sr. Prosocial Program Coordinator eMINTS National Center
For more information, contact MUProsocialLab@missouri.edu or pal@emints.org or click on the links below.
Prosocial Development & Education Research Lab – College of Education & Human Development
PAL Classrooms
Sign up your school as a Prosocial School for August 2025
We are recruiting 80 middle schools to participate in the Prosocial and Active Learning Classrooms 2.0 grant project. This is a 4-year, $8 million research project designed to determine the effectiveness of our professional learning programs on enhancing school climate and culture, improving student behavior, increasing student engagement, and boosting academic achievement. This is a random control trial (RCT) study that will use randomly assigned groups of 40 treatment schools and 40 control schools.
Our external evaluators, the American Institutes of Research (AIR), will securely collect, deidentify, and analyze data.
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If you have any questions or suggestions about MNEA Connects podcast, please contact Samantha Hayes at 800-392-0236 or Samantha.Hayes@mnea.org.