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Make Your MTSS Vision a Reality

Educators turned their MTSS vision into reality with Branching Minds! This session showed how to simplify MTSS practices, align teams, and ensure every student received the support they needed to thrive. Attendees explored proven strategies and tools that made MTSS easier and more effective for educators.

Learning Objectives:

Understood how Branching Minds helps identify student needs and implement intervention plans
Discovered tools that streamline collaboration and simplify MTSS workflows
Learned how to measure the impact of interventions with ease

Trudy Bender

Trudy Bender

Senior Manager of Thought Leadership Content @Branching Minds

Trudy Bender is Senior Manager of Thought Leadership Content at Branching Minds and a Nationally Certified School Psychologist with experience as a teacher, school psychologist, and district administrator. As Waco ISD’s Coordinator of District Behavior Intervention, she reduced exclusionary discipline, implemented a Multi-Tiered System of Supports for Behavior, and developed multi-year teacher training in classroom management and behavior intervention.

Caitlin Crossman

Caitlin Crossman

Professional Services Manager @Branching Minds

She graduated with a B.S. Ed in Elementary Education and M. Ed in Educational Technology. She served as an elementary classroom teacher in several grade levels after graduation. After seven years of classroom teaching, Caitlin moved into the role of Instructional Specialist.