Authors: Maya Gat and David Magier, Co-founders of Branching Minds
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At Branching Minds, we pursue our mission by providing schools and school districts with engaging professional development that deepens educator practice and strengthens each component of infrastructure needed to sustain a multi-tiered intervention system.
The BRM Professional Learning team is responsible for providing both virtual and in-person professional learning and coaching that is planned collaboratively with our district/school partners. Each BRM facilitator or coach is an educator with an average of 15 years of hands-on classroom, administrative and/or central office experience. Branching Minds Consultants have extensive experience leading MTSS and practicing a “results” coaching model. Our partnership includes a suite of professional learning and system-level support services that help our partners achieve high-fidelity MTSS by honing the knowledge and skills needed for their specific roles and responsibilities.
With a team of approximately 35 education consultants, Branching Minds can deliver up to 15 concurrent sessions — either in person or virtually. We continue to broaden our Professional Learning team to meet the needs of our district partners. As we collaboratively refine the professional learning plan for each district, we will increase or diversify our staff to meet the needs identified.
On-site or Virtual Facilitated Sessions
Branching Minds’ Infrastructure and Foundations Series supports districts and schools in developing procedures, protocols, and communications that promote the implementation of the MTSS framework. The Infrastructure and Foundations Series provides time and space for district and school teams to reflect on “WHAT is MTSS?”, “WHY do we want to ‘practice’ MTSS?” and “HOW will we ‘practice’ MTSS?”. We work closely with our district partners to understand and value previous work, ensure alignment between MTSS and any district strategic plans, and uncover all stakeholder needs. Outcomes from the sessions include: deeper foundational knowledge of MTSS components, aligned and explicit protocols, procedures, clear roles and responsibilities, and the importance of communication to support the adoption of new practice.
Improving system-level infrastructure is essential to enhancing best practices across any school district’s MTSS practice. The BRM Infrastructure Coaching Package provides school districts with the tools and professional development needed to advance their system to the next level.
Just like infrastructural blueprints for building a home have codes that must be understood by the drafter, the engineer, the contractor, the building inspector, and the homeowner; school districts must first ensure that the blueprint or foundation for success is understood by everyone doing the work.
On-site or Virtual Facilitated Sessions
Utilizing active implementation research science, Branching Minds supports partners throughout their adoption and implementation of MTSS and Branching Minds with just-in-time professional learning. Matched to your needs at each phase or stage of implementation, BRM provides a three-phased professional development launch series for your first year of implementation focused on actively developing leader and school team capacity to scale up MTSS innovations. Each session is uniquely customized to your readiness data.
Implementation Science - Cycle of Learning
Build capacity to tackle implementation & adoption of MTSS & BRM
Build capacity to tackle implementation & adoption of MTSS & BRM
Focus on continuous improvement, outcomes, and communication
Change Management: Implementation and Communication Readiness
Data-driven Monitoring for Sustaining Systemic Change
The Art of Feedback
On-site or Virtual Facilitated Sessions
Research says that planned implementation can take up to 3 years for full implementation and adoption. In our Deepening Practice Series, school teams reflect, reset, and expand initial systems, data-driven decision rules, and practices that will be required to support MTSS sustainability.
Reflect, reset, and expand capacity to tackle implementation & adoption of MTSS & BRM
Review & refine deeper adoption to enhance the impact and achieve fidelity
Reflect, embed, and deepen continuous improvement, outcomes, and communication practices.
Change Management: Implementation and Communication Readiness
Data-driven Monitoring for Sustaining Systemic Change
On-site or Virtual Facilitated Sessions
Building Connections between Healthy School Climate, PBIS, and Social-Emotional Learning for School and District Leadership
Building a Healthy School Climate through PBIS
Building a Healthy School Climate through PBIS
Overview for school utilizing Mental Health Professionals within a Multi-tiered System of Supports
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