MTSS Tool for Front Line School Leaders
With so much on your plate, it’s easy to feel pulled in every direction. Branching Minds helps bring clarity and focus to your work.
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Spot Strengths and Gaps in MTSS Implementation
The Leadership Dashboard provides a daily, data-backed read on staff engagement, plan fidelity, and MTSS implementation, complete with summarized insights.
Family Communication Tracking Built Into MTSS
The Family Communication Report shows you how your team is connecting with families so you can spot great work and fix blind spots.
Early Warning System for Student Risk and School-Wide Trends
Our Early Warning System surfaces school-wide risk patterns—across grades, cohorts, or classrooms—so you’re not blindsided when the board or families ask, “Why didn’t we know?”
Actionable
Spot building-wide patterns in risk, progress, and fidelity.
Transparent
See what’s working—and where staff need more support.
Defensible
Back decisions with clear data, not just your best guess.
"Branching Minds has helped us have clear conversations—even with younger students—about their goals and progress. We can point to the benchmark and say, ‘Here’s where you are, and here’s where you’re headed.’"
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How a School Utilized MTSS to Build Trust & Positive Communication With Families
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"I can pull up [a student’s] SEL/ behavior health. I can look at the charts the teachers are filling out for their Check-ins/Check-outs, and I can tell parents what we're working on with them."
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"Branching Minds made it clear for our science and social studies teams just how deeply reading and math risk was impacting their classrooms, seeing that data changed the conversation."
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"Branching Minds makes it easier for teachers by streamlining what can often feel like an overwhelming MTSS process, helping them quickly find the right interventions and group students effectively."
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How Waco ISD Transformed Their MTSS Practice & Saved Time While Supporting Students
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"Branching Minds completely transformed our MTSS. We wouldn’t be where we are today without it."
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"The success we’ve seen is a true sense of collective efficacy. Branching Minds gives everyone supporting a child access to the information they need to take action."
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"Branching Minds allows our teachers to input, create, and monitor literacy intervention plans, ensuring compliance with state standards."
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"Branching Minds helped us reflect on where we are, where we need to be, and what we were missing—like time to plan and talk about kids."
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"Thanks to Branching Minds, we’ve seen tremendous growth—our second graders made a year to a year and a half of progress, closing key gaps through strong intervention plans and teacher collaboration."
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"We’re shifting the narrative—teachers can see their impact, track progress, and feel confident their hard work is making a difference."
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How Beaumont ISD Improved Alternative School Collaboration with Branching Minds
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"Bringing all departments together through Branching Minds showed how each role fits into supporting students and why everyone’s expertise matters."
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How Duneland Increased Consistency and Communication for Student Interventions
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"Every decision we make is made because of the data that Branching Minds helps us collect and analyze."
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"We’ve made our monthly MTSS meetings more focused and data-driven, and we’re spending less time in them."
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"Using Branching Minds to manage Read to Achieve individual reading plans, the district achieved 100% creation and monitoring of these plans, ensuring all identified students received targeted support."
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"We started with 98 students marked for chronic absenteeism. By October, that number dropped to 55; now we’re down to 18."
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"Branching Minds provides that place for our teachers to put in those plans, create those plans, and make sure that we're monitoring student progress."
Tina Inghram
MTSS Coordinator, Crook County Schools, WY
"We found that a lot of the vendors that we were talking with were trying to use their data warehouse platform in an MTSS way, but it wasn't built for MTSS processes, and that's why we ended up going with Branching Minds, because it was built from the ground up for MTSS."
Deana Moss
Director of MTSS, Lakota Public Schools, OH
"We're now discussing the reasons behind placing students in specific tiers and how we can create stronger entry and exit ramps for these services. This approach allows students to achieve the growth they need and exit using interventions tailored to the data input into Branching Minds."
Amanda Allison
Assistant Superintendent Of Pupil Personnel Services, Onteora Central School District, NY
"The visual dashboards are highly effective in showing needs for differentiated instructional approaches."
Angela Plugge
Director of Learning, Waverly School District, NE
"I like the individual support—Branching Minds will get right on a call with me, and so that's been very supportive."
Jessica Turner
Executive Director for Instructional Support, Ossining UFSD, NY
"Having the in-person, embedded coaching that Branching Minds did, the presentations, during our first year, were invaluable. It was a huge assistance to us when we were first starting and helped to guide us on how to guide staff because we were all teaching it as well."
Jen Bognar
Director of Exceptional Learning, Duneland School Corporation, IN
"We came across Branching Minds and this does much more than house data. It actually gives a platform that's interactive and can address the challenges that are coming up."
Mandy Couturier
Director of MTSS, Harwood Unified Union School District, VT
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"We use the family communication letters in Branching Minds that go out when we create a plan, when we invite parents, and progress letters - all within Branching Minds."
Laurel Dickson
Director of MTSS, Richardson ISD, TX
"Branching Minds is the tool that allows you to sustain that MTSS process. When talking about kids, they're not bouncing into different platforms to get data on kids. There's efficiency."
Christine Downing
Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessments, Plainfield School District, NH
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Tier 3 Behavior Intervention Guide for School Leaders
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