mr. dierck, and had the opportunity to see what he was doing at his middle school. i was very impressed. my background has been in education since about 1972. this whole movement for social-emotional movement is gathering a lot of momentum. when george anderson developed this and he saw a need in california. his curriculum that he developed is the only one accepted by the courts as well as the prison system because of it's effectiveness. george expanded to that to include emotional intelligence and the 4 components are developing empathy, creating compassion and working collaborative and forgiveness. in developing that, in order to understand what george developed, i have to say that i am a little nervous. you have to excuse me. it's been a while. george is a 70-year old black man who group up in mississippi and was diagnosed as retarded before special education. he was one of 6 people with a nonmedical degree to participate in a harvard study in science. george has been in business for close to 40 years. he developed this anger management program to help people get