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LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 11.17 53 lenging classrooms grates on many. "We lose one out of every two teachers five to seven years after they get their degree. ey burn out," Tolan says. "If we can decrease that burnout by 10 percent or 5 percent . . . that's going to help the school system." As of 2021, when data collection is complete, CSP will make the curriculum free for anyone interested. Until then, comparison schools must remain without it. LaWanda Hazard-Irvin, principal of Kerrick Elementary off Dixie Highway, says she was disappointed when she signed her school up for the CSP lottery and was ultimately chosen as a comparison school. She believed in the model. She'd witnessed the benefits of mindfulness in her building. Hazard-Irvin says a former counselor used to pull about ten of the most troubled stu- dents into mindfulness activities regularly. "Teaching them how to get off that ledge," she recalls. "It was beautiful to see." Other comparison schools have also ex- pressed disappointment. And UVA's Tolan has heard pleas for CSP to go where it's most needed, rather than just assigning it at random. But science doesn't operate that way. "People want to know: Is it working? I would love to say let's do it everywhere," Tolan says. "at's not my training. at's not my agreement. We have to know it works. Because if it doesn't work, let's not keep arguing it's great, even thought it looks great. My training is you don't want to trust what it feels like." "Hi angry! Hi sad! Hi happy," Mat- tingly says to Cane Run first-graders who ring a pretend doorbell, contort their faces into scowls, pouts and smiles and are ultimately welcomed into Mattingly's pre- tend home. "Come on in! See how I don't turn away any visiting feelings?" It's a warm September Monday after- noon and the first-graders are out of sorts, more fidgety than usual. One girl arrived to Mattingly's class in tears. Another curls herself into a ball and rolls around. A Cane Run principal Kim Coslow believes that the Compassionate Schools Project is making a dif- ference. So much so that when the money from CSP ran out, she reorganized computer and arts pro- grams so she could find money for a CSP teacher.