Jeff Hutt, School Entrepreneur, meets with Dr. Abraham S. Fischler to discuss school-start up issues

Here is a series of 12 videos, taken in November 2012

Jeff Hutt and Abraham S. Fischler... 

Jeff is an entrepreneur who founded a language school in the Bahamas.   Dr. Fischler is a former president of Nova University (1970-1992)
"Could distance learning courses at Harvard and MIT take away from advanced placement courses in high school?"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXj6zR1w6zw  Video 2

We have to educate kids to function in an industrial society....You have to read at a certain level...
Video 2

Q:  How do we get teachers to convert to Montessori style projects (and reduce lecture time)?

Video 3

"I asked principals to run a school within a school in Hartford and we videotaped the classes.  This was in 1967..."
Video 4

"they were prepared for the 8 hours on the Saturday..."  (procedures for running a distance education course in the 1980s
Video 5

Jeff Hutt:   An English language class should be like a good night out on the town. Video 6

"Teach English in the environment of the Bahamas through snorkeling and immersion in nature...." Video 7 

"I brought the germ-free laboratory from Notre Dame..."
Video 8  

This is the 8th largest school district...
I'm willing to put in the time for no money to be left alone for five years.  I'll get the rest of the money I need to implement the system in the zone of innovation.
Video 9

For two years he had the control of the Senate and House.  He should have gone after job creation, not health care.  
Video 10

...they can get rid of a principal.
if you want to be a change agent, you need to deal with something that they want to buy into...

Video 11

The marine industry might be looking to take off...  You have to look for the niche, for the base.  
Jeff:   I'm looking at a concept of having people who want to study for two weeks but they want something special, so they are willing to go the extra distance. Video 12

...the budget was in the negative 4 million.  "Give me ten questions that I can ask the controller and I'll be back..."  Ed Mailman read the spreadsheet ... and gave me the questions.

I called my controller and I asked for answers to the questions.
That's how I learned "fund accounting."  Read the categories bottom up...   Video 13

BONUS
Here is an online cuckoo clock...

http://kukuklok.com/

There's more learning when students keep in touch with or continue to track a teacher

I took some courses at Nova University in 1985-87 with a professor who has continued to work there. Here's his website.

I don't see any advertising on his site, so about the only benefit he can receive from our hits are the many questions that we can send him.   Why not write him with some comments?  alford@nova.edu.

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http://polaris.nova.edu/~alford/index.html

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ONE OF THE DELIGHTS and main reasons for going to university is to become exposed to excellent thinkers:  People who get paid for thinking clearly and for asking you to examine your thought processes.   Even as I write these words, I'm thinking, "What would Dr. Alford do to this sentence?"   Dr. A. helped me see how muddled most of my writing is (and continues to be)... but at least I'm aware of the problem....   I even edit some of the unneeded words after typeing them...  I might not do the full Alford treatment (which involves writing, editing, then letting the manuscript sit, then read again and edit more), but at least I know what I should be doing.  That's what I got from a two-year exposure to Dr. Alford's insightful process of teaching.

http://polaris.nova.edu/~alford/lectures/lectures.html

Look at some book reviews

http://ijms.nova.edu/

Now I have the pleasure of reading some of his lectures and I want to share the links with you.  Please take time to visit.  Click and have your mind expanded.   There is such pain in keeping two thoughts in the mind at the same time, especially when the two thoughts are fighting with each other.

At least click on his Journal of Motorcycles....

How about this lecture?

Steve Jobs said, "I want to make a ding in the universe." Johnny Bunko's advice: "Make an imprint." So learn more at www.YourNetImpact.com

Steve Jobs said, "I want to make a ding in the universe." 

Johnny Bunko's advice:  "Make an imprint."  See the page created by Dan Pink.

So learn more at www.YourNetImpact.com

Young people spend a lot of time on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other forms of social media, and so, why not make an impact through your web presence?   

You can "cause an effect" (Nova University's catchphrase) by increasing your number of likes -- and by posting materials on the web.  Your subscriptions to YouTube and blogs can increase your Klout (yes, that's another service to sign up for).   Bob Finch told me about Klout and reported that his daughter has more Klout than many adults (because she tweets and writes a lot of text messages).

Leave a mark.   Deje huella.  A student at the FLEX department told me that he likes that slogan.  I left several Dan Pink books in a pile on top of a refrigerator in the office of the vice dean of the faculty of foreign languages at 19 of May Avenue near Ayestaran Blvd. in Havana.  Yes, some teachers see this pile of books at least once a week.  Maybe they will read them.