To support students who may have experienced significant learning loss due to COVID 19-related instruction interruption, Texas passed House Bill (HB4545) in 2021. This bill came with a new list of requirements that districts must meet each year,
EdTech has the potential to dramatically impact the level in which districts can support their students in reaching academic success. However, with thousands of EdTech products being marketed to districts every year, it can be difficult to
Join SEL experts Dr. Essie Sutton, Clark McKown, Emily LaShorne Walz, and Marcie Warner for a panel conversation on how district and school leaders can effectively communicate SEL initiatives and programs with stakeholders within their community. In
Improvement science is a problem-solving approach designed to use interactive cycles of inquiry to produce actionable steps for improvement while also enriching the learning journey. For school districts, improvement science can guide the
America is currently at the center of a literacy crisis. New data from districts across the nation shows that students are incredibly behind in reading, and increasingly high percentages of students require immediate and intensive reading
Join us for this hour with Professor Mark Shinn, to continue the conversation about MTSS, its best practices, and questions that arise when implementing it at the secondary level.
Our goal is for all students to have access and opportunity to participate in grade-level work that will prepare them to be successful during and after their years at school. And, with many students and educators returning to school after the most
Join Eva Dundas, Chief Learning Officer of Branching Minds, and Eileen Murphy, Founder and CEO of ThinkCERCA for a free webinar on the latest research and best practices in
Join us for this webinar with Professor Claudia Rinaldi, author of Practical Ways to Engage All Struggling Readers: A Multi-Tiered Approach Using Hi-Lo Books to learn about how to support English learners within a Multi-Tiered System of Support
Join Karl Rectanus co-founder & CEO of LearnPlatform, and Dr. Eva
School climate and culture is an overarching term used to describe students’ and educators’ experience in a school. According to the US Department of Education, a positive school culture fosters safety, promotes a positive academic, disciplinary and
As many districts move towards developing system-wide practices to support social-emotional learning and development, questions remain regarding how to assess and monitor students’ social-emotional competencies.
Behavior progress monitoring is an important component of any MTSS practice. When behavior progress monitoring is done effectively, the data collected can provide critical insights on the impacts of behavioral and social-emotional supports.
During her session, Dr. Sutton discusses where social and emotional learning fits in across the three tier levels in Multi-Tiered Systems of Support and how the Harmony SEL program and Everyday Practices can be adapted to small group settings with
In a healthy RTI/MTSS practice, a data-driven approach is not only important for guiding decisions for individual student needs, but it’s also critical for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of the practice at the school and district level.
Hear from RTI/MTSS expert, and Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Dr. George M. Batsche. The majority of Dr. Batsche’s work has focused on systems of implementing academic and behavior interventions for at-risk students, and he has played a key
Join Dr. Eva Dundas, Chief Learning Officer, of Branching Minds, and Heather Haugse, Ed.S., NCSP, Global Product Advocate for aimswebPlus at Pearson in a presentation on Successful Progress Monitoring in an RTI/ MTSS Practice to Make the Work
Personalized learning (PL) holds great promise for equity in K12 education, yet, there is little evidence that it has delivered on that promise at scale. In this session, we present data from 300K students showing that there are large inequities in
Social-emotional learning (SEL) is essential for both students and teachers as they transition back to school this fall. Understanding students’ social-emotional needs and how to effectively address them is also a critical component of an MTSS model.
Evanston / Skokie Community Consolidated School District 65’s MTSS journey.
Teachers spend a lot of time and effort discussing student needs, creating plans, providing differentiated support, and documenting the work—however, without the right intervention plan, the work becomes a documentation process instead of the
In this webinar, Dr. Eva Dundas, Chief Learning Officer of Branching Minds, and Donna Cross, Director of MTSS and SEL at Evanston-Skokie School District in Illinois, cover how using screening data to tier students preemptively identifies struggling
In this webinar, Dawn Kulpa, the Director of MTSS/SEL at San Antonio Independent School District, together with Dr. Eva Dundas, Chief Learning Officer of Branching Minds, and Karen Castle, Director of Professional Learning at Branching Minds,
Hear how Waco ISD has transformed their RTI / MTSS practice to be proactive, comprehensive, and collaborative across academics and behavior.