Yes You Can - Out to Lunch - It's Baton Rouge

Teaching skills and imparting knowledge are perhaps the greatest
gifts and tools we can give to the young, and the young at heart,
hungry to learn. Local Baton Rouge entrepreneurs are coming up with
creative ways to turn the act of teaching and educating into small
businesses with limitless potential. Jacques Hopkins was an
electrical engineer whose desire to be an online entrepreneur led
him, five years ago, to walk away from his day job and create a
local company that promises to teach even the most tone deaf
students how to play the piano in just three weeks. Piano in 21
days is an entirely online tutorial that takes everything you learn
in traditional piano lessons and throws it out the window. Jacques
lessons are unique in that they re fast, fun and require no
classical training. Now, this might seem very remarkable, not in
the least because Jacques, by his own admission, took piano lessons
as a child growing up in New Orleans for 12 years and can only play
two songs But his small company is doing well and supporting his
family. Stephanie Crawford is founder and owner of Best in Class
Tutoring, a private tutoring service that helps students with
whatever their learning needs but particularly specializes in test
prep for the ACT and SAT. Stephanie founded the company in 2014,
after spending five years in the classroom and another six years at
the LSU Academic Center for Student Athletes, where she mentored
and tutored student athletes, hired and trained tutors, and ran
hundreds of appointments a week. Today Stephanie travels the
country giving professional development seminars and teaching ACT
and SAT prep classes. Photos at Mansurs on the Boulevard by Karry
Hosford.

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