WHO WE ARE
We are a community of students, teachers, administrators and education professionals. We believe that successful communities are made up of highly cooperative groups of people, subject to social conditions that can be measured and cultivated at scale.
OUR MISSION
To catalyze school improvement with the same set of design principles needed to achieve social, economic and environmental wellbeing on a planetary scale.
OUR VISION
A just, resilient and inspired world grounded in cooperative learning communities, and empowered by the evolutionary science of human behavior.
OUR VALUES
Empowerment
Efficacy
Diversity & Inclusion
Equity
Autonomy & Coordination
Integrity
HOW WE MAKE AN IMPACT
We help students, teachers, administrators, and their respective communities manage their repertoire of behavior for overcoming obstacles and working toward their preferred future. By sharing the ProSocial process itself, we aim to empower these groups and their individual members with the ability to improve and adapt at scale and in the face of any challenge.
DRIVEN BY SCIENCE
Contextual Behavioral Science
Contextual Behavioral Science ("CBS") is an evolutionary theory of behavior, language and thinking. The key leverage point for coordinated learning and action is changing the way we relate to our own experiences and to those of others.
Political Science and Economics
Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom showed that groups are capable of avoiding the "tragedy of the commons" if they possess certain core design principles ("CDPs"). We apply the CDPs to the educational commons in the same way they apply to our social, economic and planetary commons.
Evolutionary Science
We rely on cultural evolution to navigate fast changing conditions in our world - a capacity embedded in our genes. The CDPs together with CBS foster the psychological and behavioral flexibility necessary to allow us to adapt at the speed of change.
UNITED IN GLOBAL COMMUNITY
ProSocial Schools is a project of ProSocial World, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that hosts a global initiative to catalyze positive cultural change to consciously evolve a world that works for all.
Prosocial Facilitators
Prosocial has trained more than 500 people in 35 countries in addition to publishing our book titled "Prosocial". The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS), with over 8,000 members, has also played a major role in the adoption of Prosocial.
Prosocial Schools NIC
We are rapidly evolving an international Networked Improvement Community (NIC) to foster collaboration across developed and developing countries, private and public schools, and rural, suburban and urban settings.
Coalition Building
We seek to partner with organizations working to advance the improvement aims that our member schools seek to resolve. We are especially excited about community science, youth voice, and evidence informed strategies to drive equity and inclusion as an organizational system.