The Hidden Cost of "Making It Work" in School Operations
Special Guest
Jessica Preisig
Assistant Superintendent for Technology Services, School District of Pickens County
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2026 | 12PM CST
The Hidden Cost of "Making It Work" in School Operations
Most districts aren't broken. They're held together.
Held together by staff who know every workaround. By processes that survive on institutional memory. By administrators who absorb the friction so their teams don't have to.
At some point, the question stops being "Can we make this work?" and starts being "Should we still be making this work?"
In this conversation, we sit down with Jessica Preisig, Assistant Superintendent for Technology Services at the School District of Pickens County, to talk honestly about what it costs when district operations run on "good enough" and what it actually takes to find a partner worth trusting.
You'll walk away with:
- A clearer picture of where hidden operational costs tend to live
- A framework for evaluating vendors that are actually built to partner
- Honest perspective from a district leader on what good vendor relationships look like in practice
