Customer Case Study
Lombard School
Google Sites Intranet
“Steegle.One has been a brilliant and effective
way to achieve productivity” – Allie Hahn
Leveraging Steegle.One for Enhanced Connectivity and Productivity
Lombard Elementary School District 44 comprises several schools catering to students from pre-kindergarten through middle school. The district is dedicated to fostering academic excellence, innovation, and collaboration among its staff and students. The district is home to several Blue Ribbon Schools, exceptionally talented educators, award-winning programs, and world-class fine arts and music programs.
Challenges
As the teaching staff surpassed 500, identifying job roles and contact information became increasingly difficult, leading to communication bottlenecks and hindering networking and effective resource allocation. The sheer size and complexity of the teaching staff, coupled with the lack of a centralized staff directory, made it challenging for individuals to connect with the appropriate colleagues promptly. This situation resulted in impeded collaboration, reduced productivity, and negatively impacted staff morale.
Outcome
Implementing Steegle.One improved communication and collaboration among staff, allowing them to quickly locate colleagues, fostering a more connected and engaged educational community.
In my role of operations, I am always seeking ways to enhance our productivity and make people’s jobs easier while ensuring the security and privacy of our information. Steegle.One has been a brilliant and effective way to achieve this. It streamlined our communication processes and provided a user-friendly experience for our staff that was seamless to integrate into our intranet. Steegle’s commitment to providing exceptional value by regularly updating the tool with added features and addressing our district’s unique needs has made Steegle.One People an indispensable resource for fostering a more connected, efficient, and engaged educational community while keeping our data secure within our own Google Workspace.
Allie Hahn
Director of Operations, Lombard School
500+ teaching staff across multiple schools — no central directory
Communication bottlenecks, poor networking, reduced productivity
No way to find colleagues quickly by role, school, or expertise
Staff morale impacted by visible disconnection and friction
Before Steegle.One
Steegle People directory — search by role, school, contact info
Staff can find any colleague instantly across the district
All data inside district's own Google Workspace — FERPA compliant
Allie Hahn: 'brilliant and effective' — Steegle regularly adds features
After Steegle.One
Frequently Asked Questions
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When a district grows past a few hundred teachers spread across multiple schools, the informal ways of finding colleagues and resources break down. Lombard Elementary School District 44 found that as their teaching staff surpassed 500, identifying who did what and how to reach them became genuinely difficult. Communication bottlenecks formed, networking suffered, and staff morale took a hit.
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A significant one. Lombard's Director of Operations Allie Hahn described Steegle.One as a brilliant and effective way to enhance productivity precisely because it solved the connection problem. Staff could suddenly find the right colleague quickly, access contact information, and understand who sat where in the organisation.
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Everything stays inside the district's own Google Workspace. There is no third-party platform holding teacher or staff data, no separate login to manage, and no risk of sensitive information sitting outside the organisation's control. Allie Hahn specifically highlighted this — Steegle.One keeps data secure within Google Workspace while still making it accessible.
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Straightforward enough that Lombard's Director of Operations — not an IT specialist — could describe it as seamless to integrate and user-friendly. The platform doesn't require technical expertise to maintain. Updates, new staff profiles, and content changes can be managed by the people who actually run the district's operations.
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Yes — and this matters for schools. Allie Hahn specifically mentioned Steegle's commitment to regularly updating the tool with added features and addressing the district's unique needs over time. This isn't a one-off build and goodbye. The platform evolves, and the team remains engaged.
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Absolutely. If a school district needs custom tools — an absence reporting app, a resource booking system, a ticketing workflow for IT requests — those can be built inside Google Workspace using AppSheet or Apps Script. Everything stays in the same environment with no additional licence costs.
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When staff use AI-assisted search to find colleagues, resources, or documents, the quality of what they find depends entirely on the quality of the underlying data. A clean, well-maintained staff directory gives AI tools like Gemini the foundation to return genuinely useful results.
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