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Bound Success Stories: Program Management

No More Spreadsheets: How Bound Brought Simplicity and Integration to Lewis Central (IA)

“If it wasn't for Bound, I don’t know honestly if I could keep track of all the things I need to organize.”

Jim Dermody  | Lewis Central Activities Director

No more fragmentation.

At Lewis Central High School, Activities Director Jim Dermody’s responsibilities range from scheduling games and registering students to coordinating summer camps. For years, he relied on rSchool, but the fragmented system fell short when it came to ease of use, complete oversight, and real integration.

“From a scheduling standpoint and a few organizational pieces, we were using rSchool,” Jim explains. “[But] rSchool just doesn't have all of the features of the software that Bound does that helps me stay organized.” 

With Bound, Jim found a platform that not only keeps pace with his workload, but stays ahead of the curve, smoothing out communication, eliminating paperwork and repeat tasks, empowering him to efficiently delegate responsibilities while overseeing the whole program. 

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Jim Dermody

Activities Director at Lewis Central High

“If it wasn't for Bound, I don’t know honestly if I could keep track of all the things I need to organize without it,” he says. 

From scheduling and ticketing to activity and camp registrations, Bound centralizes it all. That’s made a huge difference for both staff and families, especially when it comes to summer planning and activity registration season.

“We’d get email after email from families trying to figure out their vacations around our camps… [now] I don’t get questions anymore. Everybody knows where they need to go.”

Even first-time users adjust quickly. “Once they do it as a seventh-grade parent, then they just know how to do it for their next six years.”

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Bound has helped Jim...

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Replace

Confusing systems and disjointed spreadsheets. “We’d try to put [camp info] on spreadsheets on our website and it just never worked.”

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Support

Every family, year after year. “Once they do it as a seventh-grade parent… they just know how to do it for their next six years.”

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Simplify

Scheduling, ticketing, and registration in one place. “Our camp registration has been…I know a lot of schools don't use that yet. I would highly recommend that every school do that, especially schools our size that are running a lot of camps.”



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