For the people doing the work, leading schools and leaders
I can help youDo Less.So you canDo More.
Give me 30 minutes, I’ll give you three hours back a week, every week. And that’s just the start.
I’m taking some of the time-consuming tasks off your plate so you can do the transformative work that only you can do.
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
Book a quick call (opens in a new tab) Take the three-minute scorecard It’s free, and it tells you what the busywork is costing you in school days a year.
More than fifty schools and networks, every one of them a referral, and 91% came back the next year.
You’ve seen how technical advancements have changed and improved student results. I can help you with this one, so you and your kids don’t fall behind.
Never student records, and you always know what a tool can and cannot touch. There’s a human in the loop every time. If you have an AI policy or a FERPA agreement, that tells me what anything I build has to meet.
Unsure where to start with AI, and a little stressed that you’re already behind? Used right, AI puts your brain on the biggest problems. I build these tools, install them, and hand them off so they run without me.
Built, installed, and running in schools right now
- Coverage Schedule Maker For ops directors Does the schedule Jenga in thirty seconds. 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. See it in action
- Academic Health Coach Live, and free to try Paste in what your data shows. It walks you through the read, coaches the conversation you need to have with one teacher or a grade team, and gives you a one-week plan with owners. See it in action
- Individualized Data Reports For anyone who has to do something with the data Takes schoolwide data and turns it into a report on one student, one teacher or one grade team that somebody can actually act on, and tracks the movement over time. See it in action
- Communications Engine For anyone who writes to staff and families Writes the note you have been putting off, in your voice. It writes the all-staff update, the hard email to one family, and the one that is four drafts in and still not right at 9pm. It runs on ten years of real school and network emails, learns how you write, and hands you a few versions to tweak. Learn more
- Meeting Suite For anyone who runs the week in meetings Builds the agenda, then the next steps, the calendar invites, the reminders and the follow-up email, from a few keystrokes. Everything from the meeting ends up in one tracker, so the next agenda starts from what actually happened. Learn more
- Ask The Handbook For anyone tired of hearing “I didn’t know” Built for your school out of your own handbooks, so it answers from your documents and says which page the answer came from. Staff stop hunting for an old email or asking the person next to them, and they stop asking you. Learn more
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Ops
- Transportation ManagerOps directors and transportation leadsRuns your routes, the family texts and driver coverage out of one place.
- Enrollment and RetentionEnrollment leads and COOsShows where families are falling out of the funnel, by campus and by grade, against last year.
- Vendor Evaluation ToolCOOs and anyone who signs the contractGives you a cost-benefit read and a diligence report on any vendor in minutes.
- Development and Grants TrackerDevelopment teamsTracks every deadline, what each funder is owed, and where a request is sitting right now.
Running the School
- Chief of StaffSchool and network leadersTells you what you owe, what matters today, and what somebody outside is waiting on.
- Weekly Staff Update BuilderAnyone who sends the all-staff noteInterviews you once, then builds the all-staff note in that format every week.
- Attendance SuiteDeans and attendance teamsShows who you flagged against who you actually reached. It never scores a child.
Teaching and Learning
- Walkthrough CoachingAnyone who does walkthroughsReads your low-inference notes and finds the patterns in the school.
- PD Planning and Production AssistantAnyone who runs PD for adultsTalk through the agenda, and it builds the outline and the branded deck with the speaker notes in it.
Currently building
School Culture Suite, Arc of the Year Companion, PD Focus Finder (assembles your trends, looks through arc of the year, finds patterns, uses your dev rubric and conversation with you to help center in on what the school wide focus should be), Campus Coaching Trend Finder, People Pages, Hiring and Onboarding Engine, Run It Through the Rubric, and Summer Readiness Guide. Ask me about any of them.
100% of my clients were referrals. Year over year, 91% came back.
Where I did it
The Record
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 · then Dean of Students, Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy, Rhode Island
The work with Chris deeply accelerated the trajectory of my school, and ultimately the network at large. It was nothing short of transformational, and I do not use that word lightly.
Jerel Bryant · CEO, Collegiate Academies · Louisiana State Principal of the Year
Our school leaders name his coaching and support as having very high impact, and they push hard to get as many ‘Chris days’ at their schools as possible. I would highly recommend Chris to any school, CMO, or district looking to make dramatic improvements.
Doug McCurry · Co-Founder, Achievement First
We built an organization culture that aligned to our mission by working with Chris. He built the capacity of our leadership team, created the systems and tools, and showed us what REAL change management looks like.
Kinnari Patel-Smyth · then Explore Schools, now President, KIPP Foundation
Chris’s monthly visits were a catalyst for dramatic growth. On our network’s evaluation system, we went from the lowest-performing middle school to the highest-performing in the history of our network. Truly, Chris was no small part of that.
Tom Kaiser · Founder, Authentic Leaders · former Principal, Achievement First Endeavor MS
Tell me what you’re up against and what you’re thinking. I’ll give you a place to start, and we can go from there.
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If you don’t love it you don’t owe me anything. Worst case you are out a thirty minute call, and you keep the tool either way. If it breaks, I’m on call and I fix it that day.
Or write me: chris@habetlerconsulting.com · 617-913-8366 · or take the three-minute scorecard.
How We Start · done for you, done with you, done without me.