Keith Herman, professor in the College of Education, found that teachers in the training group increased their positive interactions with students by 64 percent versus 53 percent for teachers in the control group without the training.
Wendy Reinke, professor in the College of Education, found that when teachers participated in a training program focused on pro-social classroom behavior, their students became more socially competent and better able to regulate their emotions than students in classrooms without trained teachers.