Wyoming Department of Education

"The streamlined workflows, intuitive menus, and ability to select interventions and assign tasks simplifies the creation of support plans, ensuring educators can efficiently tailor strategies."

"Branching Minds is the communication tool we were missing for teachers and staff to communicate effortlessly about students with fidelity."

"In the last year, we’ve grown significantly in our ability to be more responsive to students' needs. We can make every decision we make because of the data that Branching Minds helps us collect and analyze."

"Just in comparison with all the other programs on the market, Branching Minds is honestly the complete package. You have all of the intervention support and guidance."

"Investing in tools like Branching Minds that make teachers feel supported/empowered can have a small, positive impact on retention, especially when combined with stability and thoughtful planning."

"I can easily log in and see how many students have moved between tiers. This streamlined process has made data collection and report preparation more efficient, with everything in one central place."

"The tier automation ensures students are placed appropriately after being assessed. Teachers can differentiate Tier 1 plans and meet student needs based on these groups or individual assessments."

"We pull up the Branching Minds, we pull up their chart, we can see what progress is being made, and then we can also go to last year's data really easily and see all the history of students and be able to know the next steps."

"Branching Minds helps identify resource gaps and offers solutions when district resources fall short."

"With Branching Minds, the meetings are more efficient, the time leads to actual action steps that people carry out."

"We use the family communication letters in Branching Minds that go out when we create a plan, when we invite parents, and progress letters - all within Branching Minds."

"The visual dashboards are highly effective in showing needs for differentiated instructional approaches."

"Administrators can see what programs were used, which supports we're using, how often we’re using them, and whether or not we’re using them with fidelity, which is really important in intervention."

"Branching Minds does a great job of reaching out to you. Branching Minds has great supportive, patient people who also really understand MTSS."

"My staff love the visual aspect of Branching Minds. They love that all the data we need is fed through ClassLink, that we can connect the data, and that they only have to go to one place for all the information they need to support students."

"What's so great about Branching Minds is it's so teacher-friendly to do what you need to do to support MTSS."

"We came across Branching Minds and this does much more than house data. It actually gives a platform that's interactive and can address the challenges that are coming up."

"Branching Minds is giving us a way to streamline looking at data that's important for decision-making from the student level to the class level to the grade level to the school level."

"For any questions I have had with implementation, I used the Branching Minds help feature and the chat. I have had all positive experiences and heard positive feedback from staff about this customer support."

"The ability to see progress toward goals with the rate of improvement line is a game changer for teachers. It’s a clear visual."

"Having the in-person, embedded coaching that Branching Minds did, the presentations, during our first year, were invaluable. It was a huge assistance to us when we were first starting and helped to guide us on how to guide staff because we were all teaching it as well."

"We needed full staff buy-in and a way to make MTSS doable. We needed to look at the whole child, including attendance and behavior, not just focus on progress monitoring data. And Branching Minds was just that."

"Branching Minds fostered better communication and collaboration across grade levels, teams, and between schools and the central office by providing a shared view of student data, making the entire district more aligned in supporting student success."

"With Branching Minds, we're seeing a whole picture of students across several years - and not just one snapshot. So it is helping us from a district leader lens and a school leader lens to make the right decisions for our students."

"I'm excited about our student outcomes, and Branching Minds is part of it. We went from 49% to 73% meeting state standards. 80% of K-3 students are hitting benchmarks, and 90% of Kindergartners."

"The insight surveys have been very time-saving because we don't have to have the back-and-forth emails and then figure out where you left off and where you need to keep adding in. They have saved a lot of time and also given a lot of recognition to where all the needs actually lie."

"Working with Branching Minds truly feels like a partnership. When I bring a challenge to the team, they don’t just solve it and send it back — they involve me in the process and make me feel like part of the solution."

"The streamlined workflows, intuitive menus, and ability to select interventions and assign tasks simplify the creation of support plans, ensuring educators can efficiently tailor strategies."

"Branching Minds is a wonderful platform that is helping to facilitate the MTSS process in my school. I like how Branching Minds streamlines and organizes information about students in one place where everyone who works with the student has access."

"We tier all of our students in Branching Minds using SELweb data - it's a game changer! The process for progress monitoring and communicating is very clear and systematic. And we're all speaking the same language."

"Branching Minds connects everything and makes it so I can see the work that the teacher before me did, or the story of the student, and how much progress they've made over time."

"I like the individual support—Branching Minds will get right on a call with me, and so that's been very supportive."

"We considered a whole lot of products, but we could see that with Branching Minds, there was a whole other level of insight and commitment."

"We found that a lot of the vendors that we were talking with were trying to use their data warehouse platform in an MTSS way, but it wasn't built for MTSS processes, and that's why we ended up going with Branching Minds, because it was built from the ground up for MTSS."

"The way that plans are set up in Branching Minds has positively impacted and influenced my framework about setting up additional support for MTSS."

"Branching Minds is the tool that allows you to sustain that MTSS process. When talking about kids, they're not bouncing into different platforms to get data on kids. There's efficiency."

"Our MTSS team chose Branching Minds because of the ingestion from the different testing sites. That alone would save us a lot of work of going back and forth and finding those scores."

"With Branching Minds, the support never goes away. And sometimes I feel like I am the only client because whoever I'm reaching out to gets back to me like that."

"Branching Minds gives you exactly what you need to do to accomplish the purpose of MTSS."

"One of the things that we like very much about Branching Minds is that we can look through a library of information to say, Is this going to work?"

"Branching Minds stood out above the rest, providing the features we were searching for and a multi-tiered system of support with interventions. Their team is knowledgeable, efficient, and a pleasure to work with."

"Branching Minds provides that place for our teachers to put in those plans, create those plans, and make sure that we're monitoring student progress."

"My job would be that much heavier if I didn't have Branching Minds. I can start the big, important work that is my job without getting hung up in some of the logistics and some of the weeds because that's all taken care of because we have implemented this platform."

"Branching Minds provides the best support team for any platform I have experienced in my 25 years in education. They are responsive to each question and work diligently to get an answer to each concern and/or issue that arises."

"We're now discussing the reasons behind placing students in specific tiers and how we can create stronger entry and exit ramps for these services. This approach allows students to achieve the growth they need and exit using interventions tailored to the data input into Branching Minds."

"Branching Minds transformed the way we do MTSS completely. We would not be where we are today without it. We would not have had the good conversation. It has really transformed our district."

"It's a useful tool for staff development, school planning, and parent meetings, providing solid evidence for changes and decisions."

"The teachers are more informed of student progress than ever before. Branching Minds also listens to its partners. We've given specific feedback throughout the year and noticed that the information has made some adjustments within Branching Minds."

"Branching Minds can do things like track parent communication, which gets totally lost when a kid transfers grades or buildings. We call it our one-stop shop for all your multi-tiered needs."

"I've been doing this work for 36 years, and I've never come across a tool that encompasses so many things districts truly need and that my staff actually use daily."

"Branching Minds can boost teacher satisfaction by showing them the impact of their efforts."

"We used Branching Minds data to report to our funder, and last year we leveraged it to help write a large federal grant."

"One of the best features is the visual dashboard. This view supports efficient communication without having to pull from a variety of documents, spreadsheets, or folders."

"Branching Minds helps teachers understand with simple visuals to see all student tiers, the content areas where students are not performing, where plans are needed, and progress. It’s improving performance."

"Branching Minds is a place where any person serving that child can either document information or glean further information to help serve that child. That's been the biggest success with information that doesn't get lost in translation, because we start a new school year."

"The implementation process led us to really evaluate our practice and create new policies- in that way, Branching Minds has already influenced systemic change!"

"The Early Warning Indicator in Branching Minds is great for high school, tracking attendance, behavior, and failures to identify at-risk students. Our district is proud of our 90%+ graduation rate, and this tool helps us spot students with chronic absenteeism, multiple failures, or behavior issues early, allowing us to provide support before it's too late."

"Branching Minds has been instrumental to our success because it forces us to examine our practices at every level, deep dive into what's working, what's not working, and what pieces are missing."

"Branching Minds sees its employees’ potential and is always looking for ways to help them grow."

"Branching Minds not only empowers staff and schools to better support their students, but also empowers its employees—both professionally and personally."

"Branching Minds has the most amazing team—everyone is incredibly supportive. Whenever I need help, I know exactly who to contact, and they’re always there for me."

"Our Branchers are some of the most talented, committed, and compassionate people I’ve ever had the privilege to work with—they’re truly what makes this place so special."

"All my staff had to do was show up with a smile on their face and their device. To get the quality you get from Branching Minds Meeting Assistant would take you at least an hour. This keeps us focused on the data."

"I love the Meeting Assistant—it streamlines everything. You can schedule 15 meetings at once, get auto-generated agendas, and make real-time decisions during the meeting. There's less prep, less follow-up, and everything gets done right there."

"Branching Minds has given classroom teachers more in-depth knowledge regarding areas in which a student struggles and the intervention tools to help meet their needs."

"You brand yourself as a true partnership, and my experience has been just that. It’s a partnership between us and Branching Minds."

"Even before we had our accounts up and running, I was reading and reading all the different articles and the helpful resources that you offer, but along with that, the people make a difference with Branching Minds."

"This is why I was so excited to work with Branching Minds—it gives teachers the tools they need and presents data in a clear, parent-friendly way."

"Branching Minds helps us catch issues early and keep students on track with grade-level content—so support is based on data, not just labels."

"The communication and documentation tools make everything easy to find and keep us transparent and aligned, especially for students with behavior plans."

"This has been the most on-track platform implementation we've ever experienced with any vendor!"

"The chat feature is very helpful. I get a timely response, which allows me to support teachers when they come to me with questions.platform implementation we've ever experienced with any vendor!"

"Branching Minds gives you tools you didn’t even know to ask for—like editable family communication templates. No other company even made me think of that."