New and Coming from Branching Minds

🐾 Dottie AI

Meet Dottie, Your AI-Powered Assistant

Meet Dottie, your AI-powered Assistant—trained on MTSS best practices to help fetch and connect all of your data dots.

Dottie can help you:

Surface key insights and trends from data in Branching Minds' core MTSS platform.
Quickly answer your most pressing student support questions.
Finally, stop being "data rich but information poor."

Dottie really is an educator’s best friend.

📝 MTSS Meeting Assistant

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.

📊 Leadership Dashboard

Leading MTSS Is Complex; Your Data Doesn’t Have to Be

Drive meaningful change and MTSS fidelity. Your leadership, our enablement.

Create a tailored dashboard with the insights and reports that matter most for your school or district.
See what's working across assessments, early warning indicators, and intervention delivery.
Data visualizations combined with AI-generated insights give you the snapshot you need to know where to lean in with support or celebrate success.

Canopy Case Management

Bringing together academic, attendance, behavior, and safety insights to support every student—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 Functional Behavior 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.

🔎 Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)

Our upcoming FBA feature will streamline and digitize the entire process within Branching Minds, guiding educators step-by-step, capturing direct observation data as ongoing progress monitoring, and integrating seamlessly with MTSS workflows.

The result: teams can move from incidents to insight to intervention in one place, with the compliance, collaboration, and clarity they need to support high-needs students effectively.

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 Willimas

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