Branching Minds Wins Two 2026 CODiE Awards for Best Collaborative Solution for Teachers and Best Productivity and Workflow Tool for Teachers

NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, July 20, 2026— Branching Minds, a leading K–12 education technology company that helps districts effectively personalize instruction and intervention for students, has been honored with two 2026 CODiE Awards in the categories of Best Collaborative Solution for Teachers and Best Productivity and Workflow Tool for Teachers.

CODiE Awards represent the highest honors in education technology, recognizing products that exemplify excellence and innovation in improving teaching and learning. Finalists are rigorously evaluated by expert judges—including educators and administrators—before industry peers vote to determine the winners.

"The 2026 CODiE Award winners represent some of the most innovative and impactful solutions in the industry," said Jennifer Baranowski, President of the CODiE Awards. "These organizations are solving meaningful challenges, delivering measurable outcomes, and helping shape the future of technology."

The Branching Minds Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) platform was recognized for the way it brings educators together around a shared, streamlined process for supporting students, while also cutting down on the administrative burden that so often pulls teachers away from instruction.

The Best Collaborative Solution for Teachers award recognizes the platform's ability to unite educators, administrators, and student support teams around real-time, shared insights into student needs. The Best Productivity and Workflow Tool for Teachers award celebrates the efficiency the platform brings to educators' daily work—replacing scattered spreadsheets, one-off documents, and manual processes with guided, built-in workflows.

Purpose-Built Tools That Give Teachers Time Back

These wins reflect years of product development shaped directly by feedback from educators, who often describe MTSS work as meaningful but time-consuming. Branching Minds has continued to invest in tools that reduce that burden while strengthening the quality and consistency of student support, including:

• Built-in task management that keeps intervention plans, progress monitoring, and follow-up actions visible and assigned—so nothing falls through the cracks.
• Guided MTSS workflows that walk teams step by step through the problem-solving process, from identifying need to selecting and monitoring support.
• A built-in, evidence-based intervention library that gives educators vetted, research-backed strategies at their fingertips—no more scrolling Pinterest for interventions.
• The MTSS Meeting Assistant, which has helped reduce meeting prep time from 50-plus minutes to less than 15 minutes per meeting, giving educators more time to focus on students instead of paperwork.
• Dottie, the platform’s AI-powered MTSS assistant, which helps educators quickly surface insights and identify targeted supports within the platform.

Together, these tools reflect Branching Minds ongoing focus on making evidence-based, collaborative student support possible and sustainable for the educators doing the work.

“These awards are a direct reflection of what educators have been telling us for years: that great support systems only work if they actually save teachers time,” said Maya Gat, Co-Founder and CEO of Branching Minds. “From guided MTSS workflows to tools like our MTSS Meeting Assistant and Dottie, everything we build starts with the question of how we can give educators back more time to focus on students. Being recognized for both collaboration and productivity tells us we're moving in the right direction.”

In addition to these two wins, Branching Minds was also named a finalist in three additional 2026 CODiE Award categories:

• Best Customer Experience Solution

• Best Evidence Management Solution

• Best Personalized Learning Solution

The breadth of this recognition underscores the range of impact the Branching Minds platform has across the full MTSS process—from personalizing instruction for students, to managing evidence for district leaders, to supporting the educators with their day-to-day work.

These finalist honors add to a growing list of 2026 accolades for Branching Minds. Earlier this year, the company won two 2026 EdTech Awards for Best Personalized Learning Solution and Visionary EdTech Leadership, and was recertified as a Great Place to Work®, with 97% of employees saying Branching Minds is a great place to work. Canopy Case Management — a new behavioral threat assessment and suicide risk screening platform from Branching Minds — was also named a finalist for the 2026 Top EdTech Products of the Year Awards in Safety and Security Technology. Additionally, the company was recently recertified B Corporation™ with one of the highest scores among educational support companies globally—further underscoring its ongoing leadership and purpose-driven impact in K–12 education.

About Branching Minds

Branching Minds partners with schools to help educators streamline differentiated instruction and personalize learning through a system-level MTSS solution that simplifies best practices. Since 2013, Branching Minds has collaborated with nearly 300,000 teachers and 545 districts across 38 states, improving outcomes for more than 2 million students. Learn more about Branching Minds and its purpose-driven platform at www.branchingminds.com

About the CODiE Awards

The CODiE Awards are the only peer-reviewed program recognizing the best products, services, and people in business and education technology. Since 1986, the CODiEs have celebrated innovation and excellence across industries. Learn more at www.codieawards.com