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Behavior Assessment and Support

Support your students’ social and behavioral development with tools and insights that streamline this essential work.

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Behavior Assessment and Support

A Robust Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) Supports the “Whole Child”

This involves an organized system of social, emotional, and behavioral strategies and interventions, along with a data-driven problem-solving cycle, enabling schools to be both preventative and responsive to their students' wellness needs.

Student Behavior Challenges are Overwhelming Many Classrooms

Most schools are not set up to respond to the rising behavior needs and are facing system-level problems like:

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Lack of processes to assess and understand your students’ social skills.

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Fragmented communication and documentation for monitoring and adjusting student intervention plans for attendance, SEL, and behavior.

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Difficulty building capacity to address increasing mental health concerns for students and staff in your district.

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Disorganized data that doesn’t flag your students at risk or promote helpful problem-solving.

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Wasted time trying to find and implement effective behavioral supports.

Make Student Support More Manageable

Navigating these challenges can be a formidable task. However, you can ease the lift and create a more supportive environment for your students and staff.

Sustainably Build Capacity

Sustainably Build Capacity

Address mental health challenges for students in your district.

Streamline Data

Streamline Data

Flag your students at risk and promote effective problem-solving.

Efficiently Find and Implement

Efficiently Find and Implement

Create and monitor student intervention plans for attendance, SEL, and behavior.

Built to Make Best Practices Practical and Sustainable

Identify & Support
Social Skills
Behavior Support
Resources
Intervention Plans
Incident Reporting

Identify and Support Secondary Students at Risk of Not Graduating

Use attendance, behavior, and course data as part of an early warning system to proactively and appropriately flag your students at risk, create plans, and monitor progress.

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Understand Students’ Social-Emotional Strengths and Challenges

Understand students’ social skills through data ingestion of your district’s selected SEL assessment provider (or through the DESSA or SECA provided by BRM) and gain behavior insights through BRMs’ Behavior Insight Survey.

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Identify Students Who Need More Behavior Support Using the SRSS-IE Universal Screener

Customize instruction, empower educators with strategic interventions, and connect students to necessary support through the SRSS-IE universal screener.

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Early Warning System

Find and Implement Evidence-Based Resources

Access a robust library of attendance, SEL, and behavior strategies, supports, and interventions.

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Efficiently Create and Monitor Behavior Intervention Plans

Create and monitor attendance, SEL, and behavioral intervention plans, including daily progress monitoring.

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Document Behavior Incidents Effectively

Document any major or minor incidents in a way that promotes problem-solving.

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Success Story

How Libby School District Refreshed Their MTSS Practice

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"The success we’ve seen is a true sense of collective efficacy. Branching Minds gives everyone supporting a child access to the information they need to take action."

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How Libby School District Refreshed Their MTSS Practice

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How Waco ISD Transformed Their MTSS Practice & Saved Time While Supporting Students

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"Branching Minds completely transformed our MTSS. We wouldn’t be where we are today without it."

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Waco ISD boosted collaboration and saved time while strengthening student support through smarter MTSS practices.

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How Waverly School District Transformed Tier 2 Interventions

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"Branching Minds has helped us have clear conversations—even with younger students—about their goals and progress. We can point to the benchmark and say, ‘Here’s where you are, and here’s where you’re headed.’"

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How Waverly School District Transformed Tier 2 Interventions

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How a School Utilized MTSS to Build Trust & Positive Communication With Families

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"I can pull up [a student’s] SEL/ behavior health. I can look at the charts the teachers are filling out for their Check-ins/Check-outs, and I can tell parents what we're working on with them."

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How a School Utilized MTSS to Build Trust & Positive Communication With Families

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How Orange County Schools Found the Missing Piece of MTSS

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"Branching Minds made it clear for our science and social studies teams just how deeply reading and math risk was impacting their classrooms, seeing that data changed the conversation."

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How Orange County Schools Found the Missing Piece of MTSS

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How a Florida School Streamlined MTSS 

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"Branching Minds makes it easier for teachers by streamlining what can often feel like an overwhelming MTSS process, helping them quickly find the right interventions and group students effectively."

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Streamline MTSS in Florida

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How Wyoming's Crook County Schools Built a Connected MTSS Practice

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"Branching Minds allows our teachers to input, create, and monitor literacy intervention plans, ensuring compliance with state standards."

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How Wyoming's Crook County Schools Built a Connected MTSS Practice

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How Middletown Public Schools Moved From Skepticism to MTSS Success

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"Branching Minds helped us reflect on where we are, where we need to be, and what we were missing—like time to plan and talk about kids."

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How Middletown Public Schools Moved From Skepticism to MTSS Success

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How a New Hampshire District is Closing Gaps

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"Thanks to Branching Minds, we’ve seen tremendous growth—our second graders made a year to a year and a half of progress, closing key gaps through strong intervention plans and teacher collaboration."

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How a New Hampshire District is Closing Gaps

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How a NY District Supports High School ELL Students with Branching Minds

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"We’re shifting the narrative—teachers can see their impact, track progress, and feel confident their hard work is making a difference."

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New York District Supports High School ELL Students with Branching Minds

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How Beaumont ISD Improved Alternative School Collaboration with Branching Minds

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"Bringing all departments together through Branching Minds showed how each role fits into supporting students and why everyone’s expertise matters."

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How Beaumont ISD Improved Alternative School Collaboration with Branching Minds

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How Duneland Increased Consistency and Communication for Student Interventions

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"Every decision we make is made because of the data that Branching Minds helps us collect and analyze."

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How Duneland Increased Consistency and Communication for Student Interventions

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How Lincoln County Schools Improved Student Outcomes with Data-Focused MTSS

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"We’ve made our monthly MTSS meetings more focused and data-driven, and we’re spending less time in them."

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How Lincoln County Schools Improved Student Outcomes with Data-Focused MTSS

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How Roanoke Rapids Made Literacy Gains with MTSS

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"Using Branching Minds to manage Read to Achieve individual reading plans, the district achieved 100% creation and monitoring of these plans, ensuring all identified students received targeted support."

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How Roanoke Rapids Made Literacy Gains with MTSS

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How Creekside Elementary Improved Attendance with Branching Minds

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"We started with 98 students marked for chronic absenteeism. By October, that number dropped to 55; now we’re down to 18."

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 How Creekside Elementary Improved Attendance

Real Educators. Real Success.

"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."

Emily Myers

Director of MTSS, Orange County School District, NC

"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."

Dr. Laura Blessing

Superintendent, Miamisburg City Schools, OH

"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."

Jennifer Maichin

District Instructional Leader, Mineola UFSD, NY

"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."

Dr. Laura Blessing

Superintendent, Miamisburg City Schools, OH

"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."

Dr. Laura Blessing

Superintendent, Miamisburg City Schools, OH

Resources to Support Your Success

Threat Assessment Guide MTSS

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Incorporating Threat Assessment and Suicide Risk, Response into MTSS

Learn how to integrate these vital components into your school safety and well-being.

Tier 1 Behavior and School Climate Guide for School Leaders - banner image-1

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Tier 1 Behavior and School Climate Guide for School Leaders

Start building a proactive behavior approach today with this step-by-step guide.

Integrating Behavioral Threat Assessment into Your System of Supports

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Integrating Behavioral Threat Assessment into Your System of Supports

School safety starts with discernment and prevention—the ability to identify concerning behaviors, prevent escalation, and respond with effective, research-based strategies.

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