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    At Branching Minds, we pursue our mission by providing schools and school districts with engaging professional development that deepens educator practice and strengthens each infrastructure component needed to sustain an MTSS.

    Empowering Districts With MTSS Professional Learning

    The Branching Minds professional learning presents essential technical knowledge of the Branching Minds product directly alongside advancements in the learning sciences, academic research, and best practices in MTSS, tailored to each district's unique needs and current practices. We collaborate with users at all levels (e.g., assessment coordinators, principals, and teachers) to ensure that Branching Minds aligns with a district's specific workflow—present and future—to elevate their MTSS implementation and support long-term success.

    Driving MTSS Success With Customized 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.

    Tailored Professional Development for Your District’s Specific Needs

    Discover Additional Professional Learning Opportunities

     

    Professional Learning Launch Series

    Launch Series

    Within the first year of partnership, districts receive at least two professional development sessions.

    The trainings balance learning evidence-based MTSS practices and the Branching Minds platform, while ensuring that trainings are tailored and aligned to a district’s MTSS infrastructure and goals.

    The Building Capacity Session

    The Building Capacity session focuses on MTSS Foundational knowledge and skills. Content is focused on key school systems, data use, and practice needed for successful implementation. The training gives tools and strategies for giving evidence-based practices that drive student success.


    For Teams

    The Building Capacity with Branching Minds for Teams session is provided to all districts that purchase the BRM platform. This training is geared toward staff such as administrators, instructional coaches, interventionists, and teacher leaders.


    For Leaders

    This session is intended for school administrators (e.g., principals) and district leaders (e.g., MTSS coordinators, directors, area superintendents). The content includes everything from the Building Capacity for Teams session, but at a high level. This is because these individuals typically will not be implementing intervention plans, but need to have an awareness of how the platform is set up to complete the tasks.

    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

    This session is intended is tailored to administrators, instructional coaches, interventionists, and teacher leaders. It helps educators use the platform to assess practices, take a temperature check of student performance, evaluate the fidelity of support plans and progress monitoring, analyze trends and evaluate instructional impact. 


    For Leaders

    This session includes everything from Making Data-Based Decisions for Teams (outlined above), plus strategies to help leaders action insights from BRM platform, to-do lists, continue improving practices and platform engagement, interpret the MTSS Self-Assessment of MTSS Implementation and prioritize actions, address challenges called out in the Building Capacity session, and reframe challenges with a focus on lifting barriers.

     

    Foundations Professional Learning

    Foundations + Infrastructure

     On-site or Virtual Facilitated Sessions

    Branching Minds’ Infrastructure and Foundations Series supports districts and schools in developing procedures, protocols, and communications that promote the implementation of the MTSS framework.

    The Foundations and Infrastructure Series provides time and space for district and school teams to reflect on “WHAT is MTSS?”, “WHY do we want to ‘practice’ MTSS?” and “HOW will we ‘practice’ MTSS?”.

    We work closely with our district partners to understand and value previous work, ensure alignment between MTSS and any district strategic plans, and uncover all stakeholder needs.

    Outcomes from the sessions include: deeper foundational knowledge of MTSS components, aligned and explicit protocols, procedures, clear roles and responsibilities, and the importance of communication to support the adoption of new practice.


    Strengthening Infrastructure with Branching Minds Series

    Creating and Implementing an MTSS Handbook

    Improving system-level infrastructure is essential to enhancing best practices across any school district’s MTSS practice. 


    Strengthening Infrastructure with Branching Minds Collection

    MTSS Foundations
    Just like infrastructural blueprints for building a home have codes that must be understood by the drafter, the engineer, the contractor, the building inspector, and the homeowner, school districts must first ensure that the blueprint or foundation for success is understood by everyone doing the work.

    Planning and Leading Effective MTSS Meetings

    Examining Current Policy and Practice

     

    Deepening Practice Professional Learning Series

    Deepening Practice with Branching Minds Collection


    Deepening Practice

    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.

    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

     

    Additional Professional Learning Opportunities

    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 MTSS and the BRM platform with fidelity and maximize educators’ efforts to accelerate learning for all students.

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    Contact us to learn how Branching Minds can support your district's RTI/MTSS practice

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