Streamlining Work and Supporting Staff

Doing More With Less: How District Leaders Are Streamlining Work and Supporting Staff

Join us for the Michigan Leadership Roundtable, where leaders from Walled Lake Consolidated Schools and Saline Area Schools will share how digital workflows are transforming district operations, from finance and human resources to student services.

Leadership Lunch & Networking
November 12, 2025, 11:30-1:45 
Walled Lake Board Room

Michigan districts are facing real pressures: shrinking margins, rising demands, and tighter oversight over categorical funds. In this session, our presenters will share how they’re connecting people and data to face these challenges head-on.

You’ll walk away with actionable ideas you can implement immediately, plus the chance to collaborate with district peers tackling the same challenges.

Featured Speakers

Miranda Owsley

Assistant Superintendent of Finance  Saline Area Schools

Christie Patteri

Finance Office Specialist Saline Area Schools

Vicki Amore

Director of Finance Walled Lake Consolidated Schools

What You'll Discover

  • How Saline consolidated nearly every process onto the Informed K12 platform and removed manual steps in HR, finance, and operations

  • How Walled Lake strengthened controls by standardizing form logic and reducing variation across departments

  • How conditional logic and adaptive workflows helped their finance teams catch errors 

  • How intelligent form design and integration with systems of record prevented bottlenecks 

  • Real examples of collaboration between business, HR, and IT leaders in Michigan districts

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