For school and network leaders

I can help youDo Lessof the admin work,so you canDo Moreof the transformative work.

With custom automations, we can do it faster and do it better.

More than fifty schools and networks, every one of them a referral, and 91% came back the next year.

I’ve been a dean of students and a superintendent, and I co-founded DeansList. I build the tool, help you deploy it, and hand it off to you.

See them as one suite

What I Build

I’ve spent 20 years in schools figuring out the best way to do things, and building the systems and tools to do them better and faster. For the last two years, I’ve been building those into automations and AI tools. I know schools and I know the tech, and I work alongside your AI or tech lead.

For superintendents and network leadersSee the same tools running across four campuses

Coverage Schedule Maker

For ops directors

I find and fix situations like this:

Three people call out, one is leaving early, and one just called you with a flat tire, and there is a network PD you forgot about. It’s 6:40 in the morning, and everyone is looking to you for the plan.

Difficult? No

Necessary? Yes

Worth your time? …absolutely not

Can we automate this safely? …Yes.

With Coverage Schedule Maker, we do it faster and better. It does the schedule Jenga in under two minutes, down from about 20, and each adult gets their own day on their phone, with every update right away. You type or dictate who’s out and it builds the whole day’s coverage from rules you set, spreads the load fairly, protects the blocks you said were sacred, and hands the close calls back to you.

Watch the demo: Coverage Schedule Maker Click through it yourself: Coverage Schedule Maker (opens in a new tab)

Dismissal Hub

For whoever runs dismissal

When a parent asks, “Where is my child?” the answer can never be “I don’t know.”

With Dismissal Hub, we do it faster and better. Each bus and door gets its own list, a parent’s change shows up right away, and you know right away if a kid is in the wrong spot. You watch all of dismissal from one screen and flag anything for follow-up.

Watch the demo: Dismissal Hub

Attendance Suite

For the attendance team

A student can be out for days before anyone calls home.

The Attendance Suite directs the team’s daily calls home, the letters at set benchmarks and the weekly attendance meeting in one place. The dean runs Monday’s meeting from one list of the students in school 80 to 89 percent of days, each with a named adult and a next step, and the principal gets one line with no student names.

Watch the demo: Attendance Suite

Incident Assistant

For deans

After an incident there are lots of moving pieces, and each one needs to be done well, reliably and on time.

The Incident Assistant keeps track of every step and its clock, drafts the file summary, the family letter and the line to the principal, and you approve each one.

Watch the demo: Incident Assistant

Chief of Staff

For school leaders

The next steps live in your head and across several trackers, and the dates sneak up.

The Chief of Staff tool puts your whole day on one screen: what you owe, what matters today, what somebody outside is waiting on and every compliance date a month ahead. Each item comes sorted with the reason in plain words, you hand it off with a check-in date, and anything still open after five school days comes back at Friday’s review.

Watch the demo: Chief of Staff Click through it yourself: Chief of Staff (opens in a new tab)

Weekly Memo Maker

For the principal

The memo gets rebuilt from scattered notes every week.

The Weekly Memo Maker turns the notes you already have into this week’s staff memo: the actions with an owner and a date, attendance and tardies against last week, a shout-out per person and what is coming up. Every number is checked against your records, it runs on rules, not AI, and it never sends.

Watch the demo: Weekly Memo Maker Click through it yourself: Weekly Memo Maker (opens in a new tab)

Meeting Suite

For anyone who runs the meeting

The agenda is in one place, the notes in another, the next steps in a third, and nobody checks on them.

The Meeting Suite builds the agenda from last week’s commitments, gives each next step an owner and a date in the room, and drafts the follow-up email, the invites and the reminders. Nothing goes out until you send it.

Watch the demo: Meeting Suite Click through it yourself: Meeting Suite (opens in a new tab)

Academic Health

For anyone who has to do something with the data

The data is stuck in the export until the end of the quarter, when it is too late to act on.

It turns your CSVs into reports and guides leaders to the right data-driven interventions and next steps to drive academic health.

Watch the demo: Academic Health Click through it yourself: Academic Health (opens in a new tab)

Your Custom Solution

Describe the job that eats your leaders’ time and we design the tool together. Give me 30 minutes and a few days to build.

If it isn’t helpful, you don’t owe me anything, and the tool is yours either way.

How we start: Your Custom Solution

The Tools, in One Place

The tool proposes, and the leader decides.

See all tools See them as one suite

Who Can Speak to My Work

These are the folks who can speak to my work as a consultant.

Some of the schools and networks I’ve worked with

For over a decade I’ve consulted with schools on culture, operations and leadership coaching. I’m doing the same type of work now, helping leaders find and fix problems, with tech that wasn’t available before. I’m using AI to help leaders get their time back. AI isn’t going to do the job of a principal, but it can do some of the jobs a principal shouldn’t have to do.

I’m still applying the same systems thinking, and there’s a person in the loop every time.

**Jerel Bryant** · CEO, Collegiate Academies · Louisiana State Principal of the Year

Start

Tell me what you’re up against and what you’re thinking, and I’ll give you a place to start. Give me a call if you want to talk it through.

If your network already has an AI lead or a tech team, I work alongside them. They own the strategy and the systems, and I bring the school side: finding the exact problem with your leaders and building the fix with them.

I also advise edtech companies and investors. That work is on the Advisory page.

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Or write me: chris@habetlerconsulting.com

Take the three-minute scorecard

If a teacher’s most difficult task is to make the most obscure skills feel instinctual, Chris is the best around. He did not change me; he did not manage me; he showed me a more complete version of myself and how to fill that role. He’s that good.

Dan Parsons · Blackstone Valley Prep