Jan. 13, 2026
From Librarian To Leader
What if your next conference trip rewired how your district learns? Sitting with instructional coordinator Samantha David at LACUE New Orleans 2025, we trace a path from librarian roots to a role that multiplies impact by teaching teachers, curating practical tools, and building the kind of network that turns ideas into adoption. Samantha brings a clear-eyed view of professional development: it has to be usable on Monday, aligned to standards, and respectful of teachers’ time, or it won’t last.
Website: spotlight4success.com
00:06 - Welcome And Guest Intro
00:25 - Role And Conference Purpose
00:39 - Value Of LACUE: Training And Networking
01:27 - About American Book Company
02:19 - Experience With ABC Materials
02:43 - Path To Teaching Teachers
03:25 - Invitation To LACUE And Closing
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Welcome to Spotlight for Success by American Book Company.
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I am Devin Pentosa, your host.
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We are here at LACU, New Orleans 2025.
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We are so excited to have with us here today Samantha David.
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Hi, everybody.
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Welcome, Samantha.
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Oh, I'm excited to be here.
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Thank you for the welcome.
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Oh yeah.
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Samantha joins us.
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She's at Iberia Parish.
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And she is the instructional coordinator, is that right?
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Kind of like the instructional technology sports supervisor.
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It's a long, long title, yeah.
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That's awesome.
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And uh tell me, what brings you to LACU?
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Well, I love LACU.
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I come every year.
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Okay.
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I get a lot of my training here from LACU.
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Oh.
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I really enjoy being here and just the camaraderie of, you know, coworkers and other people in your role and your field.
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It just helps you out a lot, especially the networking connections.
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Oh, that's great.
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Is there a particular like strain or something of interest here at the conference?
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You're like, I want to learn more about that.
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I'm kind of like eclectic, so I like it all.
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Um you never know when there's something that might come up that you need some additional knowledge on.
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Okay.
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Um, but I do uh like to train teachers.
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So whatever we use it that's usable in our district, I usually bring it back to them so that we can keep on, you know, sharing the knowledge and the love of learning.
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That's that's great.
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Thank you for watching Spotlight for Success.
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I am Devin Pentosi, 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 course books, ebook, and online testing grades.
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These materials are all designed to help you design higher scores under status, high status assessment.
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We guarantee score improvement.
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You can get free samples of our materials either in print or in electronic formats at abc12.com.
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We look forward to hearing from you.
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And I understand you're familiar with uh American book company ABC Materials.
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Yes, yes.
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I remember in um when I was working at Sugarland, they did purchase some uh materials from ABC, and so the kids like them, the teachers like them.
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So wonderful.
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Um I know that it would probably be wonderful in other districts as well as our own.
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Yeah, that's great.
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Give it a look.
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That's great.
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And uh Samantha, um, is there anything uh you'd like to share, or is there a special moment where you're like, this is why I got into being an instructional coordinator?
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It was strange.
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I remember uh really, really con thinking about things, and I've always wanted to teach teachers.
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Okay, but I was like, well, that'll probably never happen, you know.
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I'm in the library, I'm a librarian, you know.
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But it it just came across one day, and I was like, well, why not go for it?
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And it just so happens it worked out quite well, and I'm enjoying what I do.
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I love teaching teachers.
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Yes.
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Oh, that is awesome.
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Uh do you have a message you'd like to share with the LACU community from this conference?
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Yes, come come to LACU.
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If you've never been, you should come.
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So you can network and find out about things that you didn't even know about.
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LACU is the best place to be.
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Oh, yes.
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All right.
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Thank you so much again.
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This is Samantha David.
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Uh thank you for joining us from Iberia Parish.
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Awesome.
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Thank you guys.
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Thank you.
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