Dashboards, Analytics, & Insights
Smarter MTSS Workflows
School and Student Safety
Secondary Student Support
See a Snapshot of System Health
Leverage dashboards, analytics, and visualization tools for clear insight into all of your student data
- Monitor assessment performance, risk trends, and intervention fidelity
- Move from system- to student- level data in just one click
- Disaggregate data by school, grade level, demographic subgroup, and more
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New & Improved Growth Report
Most assessment reports only show where students are today. The Growth Report compares student performance across benchmark windows (e.g., fall → winter → spring), which enables leaders to see and analyze trends across their full assessment ecosystem.
- Evaluate whether Tier 1 instruction is producing improvement over time
- Determine whether interventions are working
- Identify schools, grade levels, or sub-populations needing support
- Inform instructional strategy and resource allocation
Turn Your MTSS Data Into Actionable Insights
Explore your MTSS data in new ways with flexible visualization tools designed around the questions leaders and teams need to answer.
- Build custom reports and visualizations using key MTSS datasets, including attendance, course performance, progress monitoring, services, and meetings
- Filter, group, and summarize data to uncover trends across schools, grades, student groups, or time
- Toggle between tables and visualizations such as bar charts, line graphs, and pie charts to better understand patterns in your data
- Export reports or drill down directly to student profiles to investigate insights and take action
Meet Dottie, your AI-Powered Assistant
Dottie truly is an educator’s best friend. Meet Dottie, your AI-powered assistant trained on MTSS best practices to help fetch information and connect all your data dots.
Dottie can help you:
- Get clear answers to MTSS practice questions, based on Branching Minds guides and research-based resources
- Instantly surface insights about student attendance, behavior, academics, and interventions
- Draft emails, family letters, and meeting invites in 95+ languages
- Easily generate instructional content like lesson plans, rubrics, and assignments
Reduce Meeting Prep Time by an Average of 40 Minutes
With Branching Minds Meeting Assistant, educators can significantly streamline student support meetings:
- Simplify scheduling with calendar integrations, plus automated invites and reminders for attendees
- Auto-generate student summaries and meeting agendas so everyone can show up ready
- Capture meeting notes and next steps effortlessly, ensuring clarity, accountability, and impactful follow-through
Confidential Documentation for Student Services
Securely document sensitive student information while maintaining appropriate visibility and access across teams.
- Add confidential notes when logging student services to securely document sensitive information
- Restrict visibility using role-based “Confidential Reviewer” permissions for district and school leaders
- Ensure only authorized staff or the original note author can view or edit confidential documentation
- Protect student privacy with FERPA-compliant storage and robust audit logging
Tasks, Checklists, and Coordinated Task Management
Keep MTSS work organized and collaborative with a centralized workspace for educator tasks, checklists, and coordinated team initiatives.
- Track personal action items and follow-ups in a dedicated task workspace
- Assign tasks and subtasks to staff with role-based permissions
- Create reusable checklist templates for district initiatives or graduation support plans
- Coordinate multi-step efforts like MTSS meetings, graduation planning, or family outreach
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Safety Insights to Support Every Student
Bringing together academic, attendance, behavior, and safety insights to support every student while supporting them proactively and effectively.
- Leverage built-in suicide risk screening and threat assessment protocols to proactively identify students at risk of hurting themselves or others
- Easily administer assessments to better understand and problem-solve challenging behaviors
- Integrate risk assessment data and workflows into the broader MTSS framework to ensure comprehensive, personalized support for students
Enhanced Early Warning System
Identify students who may be at risk with expanded risk configuration options and flexible risk analysis.
- Improved integrations and data sharing
- Customizable risk criteria for attendance, behavior, and course performance
- Enhanced reporting with drill-down visualizations
From Early Signals to On-Time Graduation
Secondary teams need early insight into risk and clear ways to track graduation milestones, support delivery, and readiness without juggling spreadsheets, disconnected tools, or manual processes.
Branching Minds brings graduation and support into the same MTSS workflows educators already use, helping districts:
- Identify early signs of risk
- Document personalized support plans
- Monitor readiness based on key graduation milestones
Don't Take Our Word for It!
"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."
Donna Cross
Executive Director of Research Accountability and Data, Evanston-Skokie 65, IL
"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."
Ronda French
Assistant Director of Pupil Services, Medina City School District, OH
"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."
Shannon Thornton
Director of Curriculum & Assessment, Warrensville Heights City School District, OH
"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."
Jenn Bognar
Director of Exceptional Learning, Duneland School, IN
"The visual dashboards are highly effective in showing needs for differentiated instructional approaches."
Angela Plugge
Director of Learning, Waverly School District, NE
"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."
Eva Dover
School Psychologist, Orange County Schools, NC
"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."
Susan Williams
Director, Information Management Division, State of Wyoming, WY
"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."
Dr. William Crankshaw
Superintendent, Greater Johnstown School District , NY
"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."
Leslie Wright
Coordinator of Instructional Supports and Enrichment, Encinitas Union School District, CA
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