Branching Minds

“Our district outpaced the state in growth, in K-3 literacy, according to our DIBELS-8 data, in every grade K-3 and every subgroup.”

“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.”

“Elementary schools are seeing great growth because they are using the data.”

“Our district, like many, has been negatively impacted by staffing shortages this year. Open positions, long-term subs, etc., impact students, families, and other teachers/central services staff who ‘cover’ or step in to make sure kids are getting what they need.”

“"The platform offers a space for our teachers to input, create, and monitor literacy intervention plans, ensuring compliance with state standards."”

““I can look back now because everything was uploaded in the supporting documents from last year, what happened last year with this student, what meetings occurred, and what was talked about in these meetings. I think that the longevity of this and looking at students over time and what has happened and what has been in place for them is a positive aspect.””

““We're more focused on research-based interventions and implementation of those, making sure that we are using progress monitoring tools that meet the guidelines to support what we're doing with students."”

““Our staff and our teachers across our district needed a more effective and systematic way to document what we were already doing with students. We are trying to establish a system district-wide with our processes for MTSS. ””

“It's really helped us to clarify. What are we working towards? Is our student making progress?”

“Branching Minds does a great job of reaching out to you and not making you feel bad. They have great support and patient people who also really understand MTSS and they listen to you to give you what you need when you need it and not too much.”

““We're starting to shift the narrative. We're not fixing everything that's an issue, but we are making progress towards it. We can track that now and make it visible. That feels good to a teacher because they work so hard to be able to do this and they care about kids.””

““We're able to be very clear on who's growing, who's not, what interventions that we're putting in, tracking those interventions, being able to test them in their home language and in English.””

“The plans we are creating are better regarding best practices. They're much more guided, they make more sense, they're smarter , goal-driven, they're more doable.”

“When teachers overall get to see how easy they can access data on a kid, even if they're a science teacher, they're thrilled at how much simpler the process is, how much time they've saved.”

“When a teacher administered an assessment three times a year, to take that data and then to do something productive with it was quite a challenge.”

“I've been in this since No Child Left Behind got initiated, and we went through company after company trying to find something that would support us and be easy to implement. Every time we tried to come up with something better, for whatever reason, it didn't work out, and we have found our partner in Branching Minds.”

“Our scores have really made a significant jump since we've used Branching Minds. We had so much success in both our ELA and math and our proficiency. We were definitely more focused and data-driven last year than we ever have been.”

“One thing that we've been very successful with is those MTSS meetings that we have monthly with each grade level. We've been able to really hone in on certain things, and we can keep those meetings very data-driven. We're actually spending less time meeting.”

“I think what I’m most proud of is that teachers understand that it doesn't always have to be how it used to be.”

“The success that we've seen is just that true sense of collective efficacy. Branching Minds is a place where any person serving that child can go and either document information or glean further information to help service that child.”

“We have a lot of initiatives that we're working on right now to support academic and social, emotional and behavioral growth. So by being able to use Branching Minds as a platform to not only back up the need, but back up the success that those programs are having, that helps us inform our parents and our community about what we're doing for students.”

“They track their behavior data from their groups when they meet at the end of the week using the graphs. When the data is presented in that way, it makes it so much easier to analyze in order to respond with appropriate interventions.”

“With the tier level reports, you can look at a classroom level, grade level, building level, and that makes a huge difference in being able to compare results.”

“In the last year we've had a huge amount of growth as far as being able to be more responsive to students needs. Every decision that we make, we can make because of the data that Branching Minds helps us collect and analyze.”

“Every decision that we make, we can make because of the data that Branching Minds helps us collect and analyze.”