Midterm Review: Mindfulness Feeds the Roots – Compassionate Schools Project
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20 Nov Midterm Review: Mindfulness Feeds the Roots

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Mindful Magazine attended a Compassionate Schools Project (CSP) project leader meeting and visited a CSP classroom.

“Using the image of caring for trees, the speaker argued that the education field tends to focus too much on the tree’s fruit (outcomes like test scores) while ignoring the roots. If you ignore the roots for too long, he continued, you don’t get any fruit at all. The takeaway: mindfulness and compassion feed the roots.

I heard this analogy when I was lucky enough to witness the mid-term review of Louisville’s “audacious” 7-year Compassionate Schools Project (CSP) serving over 10,000 K-5 students at 45 schools. The Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and the Contemplative Sciences Center have teamed up with the Louisville public schools on a randomized control study of a compassion, mindfulness and movement curriculum. In addition to being the largest and most innovative study of its kind, the curriculum will be free when it’s completed for any school that wants to use it.”

Read the full article: “Mindfulness Feeds the Roots“