Jan. 20, 2026
Don’t Take The Elevator, Take The Mic
The floor at LACUE buzzes, but what stands out is a simple transformation: a teacher who once felt overwhelmed now walks with a plan to hand the mic to her students. We sit down with Lauren Domangue to trace how a yearbook program stretched into social media, and why podcasting is the natural next leap for a high school of 1,400 voices.
Website: spotlight4success.com
00:06 - Welcome And Conference Vibes
00:45 - School Context And Role
01:06 - Sponsor Message And Free Samples
01:57 - Yearbook To Social Media Shift
02:35 - Bringing Podcasting To Students
03:22 - Tips For First-Time LACUE Attendees
04:04 - Closing And Thanks
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Welcome to Spotlight for Success by American Book Company.
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I am Devin Pentosi, your host.
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We are here at the wonderful LaCue Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, and we are so excited to have with us today.
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Uh Lauren Domang.
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We're so excited to have you.
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Thanks.
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I'm excited to be here.
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This is my second year at LaCue, so you know, I kind of have like conference, conference uh like positivity, like I don't, you know, confidence.
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Like I don't I don't feel as scared as I was last year coming here, so it's good.
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Oh, that's great.
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It's kind of overwhelming, you know.
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There's so much going on.
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Wow, yeah, there is so much going on here.
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It's such a busy environment.
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And I understand you come to us from uh HL Bourgeois School, is that right?
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Yes.
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All right, and you're at uh Terra Bone Parish?
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Yes.
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Where yep, we are um high school, about 1,400 kids.
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Um, and I get to interact with most of them through the different activities and stuff that I do.
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Wonderful.
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Thank you for watching Spotlight for Success.
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I am David Pentozi, the Chief Operating Officer of American Book Company.
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We are located here in our headquarters in Woodstock, Georgia.
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All of our materials are printed in the USA.
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We have horse.
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You can get free samples of our materials either in print or in electronic format at abc12.com.
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We look forward to hearing from you.
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And what kind of activities do you do with your students?
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So, students and beyond, I get, you know, I get to make the yearbook, which is super fun, and then now yearbook has expanded to social media.
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You know, you you you have new ways of promoting it and everything, so it's getting the kids involved in other things, and then I do handle the social media at our school.
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So now I'm learning TikTok and you know all those things.
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They're teaching me TikTok, I should say, and then they're showing me, you know, the editing side of things like through Cap Cut and apps like that.
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So they're they're schooling me.
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That's great.
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And uh what kind of things are you hoping to bring back uh to the kids from Lacue this year?
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My major thing this year is learning podcasting and and bringing the right place.
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I see that, I see that.
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So, and just kind of bringing it here, uh bringing it there from here, and I I'm excited about it.
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Anytime I talk to my kids about the podcast I'm listening to and stuff, there's a couple that are like we started listening to podcasts, and I'm like, what if we could make one?
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You know, like how cool would that be?
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So I I I'm getting them on board.
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Awesome.
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You know, the people in charge are are on board, so it's pretty cool.
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Oh, fantastic! Yeah, well, we're so excited, and we hope we can get help you build a podcast at your school.
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So uh that's that's awesome.
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Um, is there anything you'd like to share with the LACU community?
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Um, I don't, I guess the with the Lakue.
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First off, if this is the first time you have come to LACU, don't use the elevators.
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Use the stairs.
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Um, make the most out of the sessions that you pick.
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Um but you know, just really truly try and find something, something new, something different.
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That's what I did last year with choosing the podcasting, you know, spot and session.
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And that ended up being my favorite session and just got so much out of it.
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And now this is where I'm at today with it.
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Oh, that's so awesome.
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Yeah.
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Uh well, thank you so much.
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This is uh again, this is Lauren Domang uh in Iberia Parish.
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Thank you for joining us today.
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Thank you so much.
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