“Around 15 percent of the world’s population, or estimated 1 billion people, live with disabilities. They are the world’s largest minority.”
- United .
Branching Minds (BRM) offers a variety of professional learning opportunities for states, districts, and schools to ensure instructional leaders, specialists, coaches, and teachers are able to implement RTI/MTSS and the BRM platform with fidelity and maximize educators’ efforts to accelerate learning for all students.
Branching Minds provides professional learning sessions through workshops and coaching sessions, ranging from 60 minutes to full-day or multi-day workshops with a maximum of 25 participants per session. As every school and district has its individual strengths and needs, BRM can differentiate our support and develop a customized Professional Learning Support Plan.
For districts that have “coordinator” level educators, we offer a special webinar to show how BRM can increase the impact of their role as an “influencer.”
Session 1
90 Minutes
The critical nature of their role
Identifying support structures for school-level staff
BRM reporting that directs the differentiated support needed for each school
Creating keys for success
Communicating with school leadership
School leaders have so many tasks to manage. Keeping RTI/MTSS at the forefront can be challenging, even when knowing how it improves overall school performance. To keep RTI/MTSS a priority for school and district leaders, BRM provides ongoing support through follow-up coaching. This helps the practice of using BRM as a data engine for evaluation and decision-making to become part of the operating system for leaders.
Key times for conducting sessions are mid-year or end of year, after assessment windows close. In these sessions, instructional leaders use all of the data tools in BRM to review the “wellness” of the school/district’s systems and practices toward ensuring success for all students. These sessions are highly customizable and can be done virtually or in-person.
3-Hour Session
Using data to examine grade and subject level trends
Examine tier distribution and movement
Analyze systems supporting teachers and students
Develop goals and growth plans for year 2
3-Hour Session
Evaluate the progress of the implementation, refine the processes and protocols, and deepen the work.
Evaluating implementation progress
Examine existing plans for quality in each element
Evaluate tier distribution
Continue customization of the library
Refine process and protocols
Examine effectiveness of support team meetings
Use BRM tools to monitor fidelity of plan delivery
Develop support plans for teachers in need
3-Hour Session
Evaluate the impact of intervention plans in light of new universal screener data and continue looking at system needs.
Evaluating implementation progress
Develop support plans for teachers in need
Evaluate tier distribution shifts
Analyze grade/department-level trends
Refine process and protocols
Examine all support structures for effectiveness
Identify and communicate growth in practices
Identify changes needed for following year
Branching Minds offers a moderated PLC for school-level leaders. Each seasonal cohort (Fall, Winter, Spring) covers three topics, meeting every three weeks, and provides:
A model of effective PLC concepts
Interaction and collaboration with peers from other schools and districts
Clarification of the BRM platform tools and practice
A safe environment to discuss progress toward a fully operational RTI/MTSS protocol
Utilizing BrM as a Key Data Source
60 min
Workflow supports (create one document compiled from multiple resources)
Data picture
Best practices for implementation
Creating RTI/MTSS Action Plans
60 min
Identify workflow issues
Criteria to support and prioritize issues in an RTI/MTSS action plan
Review of best practices in student support meetings
Monitoring Progress
60 min
Review individual or group student support meetings
Report on implementation and RTI/MTSS Action Plan
Reflect on the impact on your personal/leadership workflow
“Around 15 percent of the world’s population, or estimated 1 billion people, live with disabilities. They are the world’s largest minority.”
- United .
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