Consider/Approve Purchase of Branching Minds Response to Intervention (RTI) / Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) Software Description: Priority #1: Optimize Engaging and Diverse Learning The Branching Minds platform has been in use in CFBISD since 2024-25 with full implementation district wide in 2025-26. The Branching Minds program provides a robust and thorough tool for supporting our ongoin

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5.AC. Consider/Approve Purchase of Branching Minds Response to Intervention (RTI) / Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) Software Description: Priority #1: Optimize Engaging and Diverse Learning The Branching Minds platform has been in use in CFBISD since 2024-25 with full implementation district wide in 2025-26. The Branching Minds program provides a robust and thorough tool for supporting our ongoing effort to revise and improve the district’s MTSS process and HB 1416 accelerated instruction planning and delivery. Branching Minds streamlines the work of MTSS and empowers teachers with the insights and guidance they need to personalize support for students so that they have more time and energy to do the inherently personal and personalized work of building positive student-teacher relationships. The program was designed to support schools in doing the work of MTSS (Multi-Tiered Systems of Support) addressing both academic and behavioral supports. The program utilizes application interfaces already in use in CFB to combine data from multiple platforms which support the development of data informed personalized plans. Recommendation: It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approves the Renewal of the Branching Minds Software & Support package for use during the 2026-27 school year and delegates authority to the Superintendent, or her designee, to execute purchases and contracts in the best interest of the District. Attachments: ( 1 ) Branching Minds 2026-27 Renewal Proposal 5/28/2026 at 5:26 PM

This motion is scored as EXPANDS_GOVERNMENT (Impact Weight: 6.8/10). Under the Bastiat Liberty Watchdog Index, measures that increase tax rates or fee schedules, issue new debt or Certificates of Obligation, expand regulatory/zoning restrictions on private land use, or authorize unbudgeted spending expansions reduce an official's Freedom Score when voted YES (and reward dissenting NO votes).