What Happens When Tutoring Becomes A Relationship

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We’re recording from the NCASA conference in Wilmington, North Carolina, and we keep hearing the same challenge from school and district leaders: students need more support, but schedules and staffing are already stretched thin. So we sat down with Rene and Connie from Book Nook to get specific about what scalable high impact tutoring can look like when it’s built for real schools, real constraints, and real outcomes. 

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:06):
Welcome to Spotlight for Success with American Book
Company.
I'm your host, Derek Pentozi,and we're here at the NCASA
conference in Wilmington, NorthCarolina.
Here we are with our specialguest, Renee and Connie.
Renee is the account executiveexecutive for Booknook, and
Connie is a senior marketingmanager for Booknook.
So it's so great to have youguys here today.

(00:26):
Thank you so much for having us.
So what brings you guys here?

SPEAKER_02 (00:30):
Well, we're we're here like everybody else.
We're vendors and we're excitedto be talking to school district
leaders to help them with umhigh impact tutoring.

SPEAKER_00 (00:41):
Okay.
And can you tell us a little bitmore about Booknook?

SPEAKER_01 (00:44):
Yes, of course.
So Booknook is a high impacttutoring company.
Um, it's virtual.
We do K through eighth.
Um we primarily focus on tiertwo, tier three kids, and then
your bubble kids.
Um we also have added some ELLsupport so we can also help
those students that are needinga little bit more support.
We are able to accommodateduring before school, during

(01:04):
school with maybe in yourintervention block, and then
also after school as well.

SPEAKER_00 (01:09):
Great.
Thank you.
Tell us a little bit more aboutyour positions.

SPEAKER_02 (01:13):
Well, um I am senior marketing manager at Booknook,
and so I of course handle allaspects of um our marketing.

SPEAKER_01 (01:22):
And then as an account executive, um you'll see
me at conferences, and then I'malso, you know, sometimes just
meeting with people.
So whether that's to take you tolunch and get to talk a little
bit more about your district, oryou know, you get to learn a
little bit more about Booknook,um, I'm just kind of that
relationship builder before weget, you know, the whole deal
closed.
So Brene, you have never takenme to lunch before.

(01:43):
I know.
I know.
I'm you know, call me out.

SPEAKER_02 (01:46):
But yeah, we'll have to get we'll have to get we'll
have to get on that.

SPEAKER_00 (01:50):
And what's the what's your favorite part of
what what you guys do?

SPEAKER_02 (01:54):
You know, helping kids, honestly.
Um giving students um theopportunity to have that small
group instruction, um, givingteachers their time back and um
you know kind of taking a littlebit of the load off of them.
We we bring in um virtual tutorsvirtually, and so we just can

(02:14):
bring in that scalability, justbring in a fleet of online
tutors to come in, work withstudents, and then just pull
them back out, you know, andthat that leaves teachers that
time where they're not justsitting at the kidney table over
and over and over again.
It's you know, it gives umschool leaders and district
leaders the opportunity so thatthey're not having to coordinate

(02:36):
schedules, pull students out ofcore instruction all the time.
Um we can support, you know, soin so many ways on scalability
of um small group instruction.

SPEAKER_00 (02:48):
Great.
What about you?

SPEAKER_01 (02:49):
I would say it's the real life impact we're making.
Um I go into schools often andI'm able to kind of see like
what our customers are doing,and I'm able to see kind of
those relationships that thestudents have made with their
tutors, and they're actuallylike, oh my god, Booknook is
like my favorite time of theday, and it's like it's so fun
to actually see thatrelationship in real time.

(03:10):
And then it's also just beingable to see the progress as well
because we're able to go overthat data monitoring with them,
and we're able to see like, hey,like what what's happening, and
you're actually able to see thatreal growth.
So, yeah, that's really amazing.

SPEAKER_00 (03:22):
And when can where can we find your products?

SPEAKER_02 (03:25):
Um, you can always go to booknook.com.
Booknook.com.
Yeah, absolutely.
Booknook.com um is our website.
You can um find us on you knowall of the social media channels
as well.
And um, or you can reach outdirectly to Renee.
Great, okay or yeah, she's umshe's the rep here at um in
North Carolina, and that's whywe're here at NCASA.

SPEAKER_00 (03:45):
Great.
And um, do you have any lastwords for the NCASA community,
both of y'all?

SPEAKER_01 (03:50):
Well, thank you for having us.
Um I enjoy coming year afteryear, so it's an awesome.
I'm I'm love to be honestly ableto meet everyone every single
year and sometimes see familiarfaces.

SPEAKER_02 (04:02):
I'm just excited.
This is my first year at NCASA,and so um having the opportunity
to um meet school and districtleaders here in North Carolina
has been an excellent way tospend my time this week, and um
I'm excited for us to be in yourschools and in your districts so
that we can start getting thatstrong engagement and so that

(04:26):
you can see the power andengagement and impact that um
virtual tutoring can have.

SPEAKER_00 (04:31):
Great.
Well, that's Rihanna and Conniefrom Booknook.
Check them out at booknook.comand we'll catch y'all later.

SPEAKER_02 (04:38):
Thanks so much.
Thank you.