MTSS Professional Learning Series

Empowering Districts With MTSS Professional Learning

At Branching Minds, our mission is to strengthen the great work you’re already doing and make it sustainable through research-based implementation science.

Whether you’re just getting started or looking to deepen your MTSS practices with Branching Minds, we’re honored to support your journey. Together, we’ll make meaningful change, one student at a time.

Driving MTSS Success With Tailored Professional Development

As current and former educators with an average of 15 years of experience at the school and/or district level, we understand the importance of ongoing support in deepening MTSS practices and maximizing platform implementation.

We are your partners every step of the way, ensuring sustained growth and impact in the MTSS journey by remaining committed to partners' success long after the initial training.

For Teams

For Leaders

Training Geared Towards Staff

This training is geared toward staff such as administrators, instructional coaches, interventionists, and teacher leaders.

School teams apply the 6 components of MTSS to the Branching Minds platform and learn how to:

Identify student needs.
Build and monitor plans.
Interpret progress data.
Streamline communication.

Educators actively discussing Tier 2 and Tier 3 academic interventions during an MTSS professional learning workshop.

High-Level Training

This training is geared toward district MTSS team members, superintendents, coordinators, facilitators, directors, and administrators.

Leaders explore strategies for assessing their MTSS and implementing the Branching Minds platform.

Leaders learn how the Branching Minds platform supports their MTSS by:

Identifying student needs.
Building and monitoring plans.
Streamlining communication.

Making Data-Based Decisions Session

The Making Data-Based Decisions session helps to ensure users are transforming their data into action. Additionally, this training includes a check-in about how platform implementation is progressing, an opportunity to reinforce skills from the Building Capacity session, strategies to support evaluation and shifting adult practices, and planning opportunities to identify areas of improvement and success on the platform and MTSS implementation as a whole.

For Teams

For Leaders

Helping Educators to Use the Platform

This session is tailored to principals, assistant principals, interventionists, specialists, and counselors.

It helps school teams evaluate their MTSS implementation and learn to use the Branching Minds reports to:

Assess adult practices.
Monitor student progress.
Evaluate the impact and fidelity of supports.

Lead With Clarity and Strategy

This training is geared toward district MTSS team members, superintendents, coordinators, facilitators, directors, and administrators.

Leaders reflect on their Branching Minds implementation goals, identify barriers, and learn strategies to turn platform insights into actionable steps for continuous improvement. They will utilize the Branching Minds reports to:

Assess staff practices.
Monitor student progress.
Evaluate plan impact and fidelity.

Research says that planned implementation can take up to 3 years for full implementation and adoption. In our Deepening Practice collection, educators reflect, reset, and expand initial systems, data-driven decision rules, and practices that will be required to support MTSS sustainability.

This training is for instructional coaches, interventionists, specialists, and teachers.

Participants learn to create effective academic intervention plans in the Branching Minds platform with 3 components: goals, interventions, and progress monitoring tools. Then, participants explore how to analyze and adjust intervention plans, as needed.

This training is for counselors, social workers, interventionists, specialists, and teachers.

Participants learn to create effective SEL/Behavior intervention plans in the Branching Minds platform with 3 components: goals, interventions, and progress monitoring tools.

Then, participants explore how to analyze and adjust intervention plans, as needed.

This training is for MTSS team members, administrators, coaches, coordinators, interventionists, and Specialists

Learn how utilize the Branching Minds platform to plan and lead effective MTSS meetings at the school, grade, and individual student level. Participants will explore meeting templates, protocols, and strategies to streamline their MTSS meetings.

The MTSS Fundamentals with Branching Minds Series supports districts and schools in developing procedures, protocols, and communications that promote the implementation of the MTSS framework.

For all educators, participants will collaborate, reflect and build a shared understanding of the MTSS framework and core practices.

This session supports teams as they:

Align on purpose.
Define what MTSS looks like on their campus.
Identify areas for growth for MTSS.

MTSS Success Package

Get the support you need to successfully implement MTSS practices and the Branching Minds platform.

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MTSS Learning Hub

Access on-demand courses to grow your MTSS and Branching Minds expertise.

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Live & On-Demand Insights for MTSS

Learn from education leaders and explore practical strategies to strengthen your student support systems.

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MTSS Professional Learning

Empowering Districts With MTSS Professional Learning

Driving MTSS Success With Tailored Professional Development

Unlock Next Steps in Your Professional Learning Journey

Launch Series

Building Capacity with Branching Minds for MTSS Teams

Training Geared Towards Staff

High-Level Training

Making Data-Based Decisions Session

Helping Educators to Use the Platform

Lead With Clarity and Strategy

Deepening Practice with Branching Minds Collection

Deepening Practice

Comprehensive Support Plans That Work for T2 and T3 Academic Interventions

Comprehensive Support Plans That Work for T2 and T3 SEL/Behavior Interventions

Planning and Leading Effective MTSS Meetings

MTSS Fundamentals with Branching Minds

On-site or Virtual Facilitated Sessions

Additional Professional Learning Opportunities

MTSS Success Package

MTSS Learning Hub

Live & On-Demand Insights for MTSS

Ready to Make Student Support Simpler and Stronger?