Mindex MTSS Edge™

Leading the way as the best serviced K-12 MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) software in New York State

Looking for RTI Edge?

RTI Edge (now MTSS Edge), along with ClearTrack 200, were both recently acquired by Mindex from BT BOCES, resulting in improved integration, automatic real time analytics, and significantly reduced hosting fees for bundled Mindex products!

The MTSS Edge Difference

A Complete Integrated Solution

With MTSS Edge, districts can easily manage a multi-tiered system of support services within a complete and integrated solution, tracking all student universal screenings, goals, progress monitoring, interventions, meetings, parent notification, generate letters/student plans, and running reports!

NY-Focused

Originally built by BT BOCES for the unique needs of NYS, and is well known for its awesome service.

Now a Mindex product →

Integration is a Breeze

MTSS relies on many data feeds. The Mindex team has a deep understanding of all data elements that make up an MTSS plan, including attendance and enrollment workflows, allowing for stress-free implementation.

Highly Customizable

From tables and drop downs, to screening tools and progress monitoring and more, you can set your system up based off your MTSS plan to meet your unique needs.

Academics

Track multi-tiered levels of support that focus on the student’s individualized skill deficits.

Attendance & Behavior

Identify risk indicators for attendance or behavior that will easily alert you of students who may need supports and develop student plans.

Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

Track SEL Benchmark/Goals based on student needs for self-awareness, social awareness, or decision making.

Benchmark ALL
students 3x / year

Ensure every student’s progress is regularly evaluated while identifying academic trends, tracking growth, and pinpointing students in need of additional support.

Easily identify
struggling learners

Discover a student’s unique skill deficits with easy-to-use graphing solutions, allowing you to detect early warning signs and make informed decisions based on data.

Visualize student and
class performance

Easily track progress, identify patterns, and assess the effectiveness of interventions, making data-driven decision-making clear and actionable.

Predict student
success

Historical and real-time data allow for better-tailored supports to ensure that all students are on track to meet their academic goals.

Track interventions based on unique student needs

Determine within weeks (not months!) if interventions are making a difference with the child's progress, helping educators quickly take proactive measures and provide students the support they need before challenges become insurmountable.

Progress monitor
goal performance

With regular updates and progress indicators against personalized targets, quickly gauge the effectiveness of interventions and make timely adjustments to stay on track.

Reduce Special
Education referrals

The tiered support model ensures that struggling students receive appropriate interventions at earlier stages, preventing challenges from escalating to the point where special education services might be required.

Generate MTSS forms/letters

Quickly document interventions, progress, and communication with parents and guardians, ensuring compliance with MTSS procedures while keeping stakeholders informed with minimal effort.

Track MTSS Data
Team meetings and
e-mail agendas

Log meeting notes, track action items, and e-mail agendas to ensure all team members are aligned on the next steps for student interventions, improving the overall effectiveness of the MTSS process.

Data Warehouse
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Funding

MTSS Edge’s data warehouse solution meets all of New York State’s reporting requirements.

With our networking relationship with SED, we ensure our products meet the latest requirements so that districts can rest assured they are submitting the most accurate data.

Response to Intervention (RTI)

A Focus on Academic Support

RTI is a framework specifically designed to identify and address academic challenges in students, with a focus on early intervention. It operates through a tiered approach, where students receive varying levels of support depending on their needs. RTI is primarily concerned with academic progress and helps educators provide targeted interventions for students who are struggling in specific areas, such as reading or math.

Typically, RTI begins with universal screening, followed by interventions that increase in intensity based on student progress. If a student does not respond to interventions, further assessments may lead to consideration for special education services.

Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)

A Holistic, Comprehensive Framework

MTSS, is a broader, more comprehensive framework that integrates support for academic, behavioral, and social-emotional development.

While RTI is often seen as a component of MTSS, MTSS goes beyond academics to support the whole child. MTSS incorporates multiple tiers of intervention not only for academics but also for addressing behavioral challenges and promoting mental health. This multi-dimensional approach ensures that students' diverse needs are met, creating a well-rounded system of support that extends to all aspects of student development.

In recent years, Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) has emerged as a robust framework designed to address the diverse needs of students within K-12 education, taking a more proactive approach addressing systemic barriers and conditions for both students and educators.

RTI and MTSS are often used together, with RTI as part of an MTSS approach. The goal of both is to ensure that students get the support they need to learn and that every student succeeds.

While RTI is a highly effective model for identifying and addressing academic challenges early, MTSS builds on that foundation by providing a comprehensive system that supports all students, including those with behavioral and mental health needs. MTSS also encourages collaboration among educators, families, and community partners to create a system of care that works for each student.

In K-12 education, Response to Intervention (RTI) and Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) are both frameworks designed to provide targeted support to students, but they differ in scope, purpose, and implementation:

Scope

RTI focuses primarily on academic interventions, aiming to address specific learning challenges.
MTSS encompasses academic, behavioral, and social-emotional supports, offering a more holistic approach to student well-being.

Support Levels

RTI typically involves three tiers: universal instruction for all students, targeted interventions for struggling students, and intensive interventions for those with significant needs.
MTSS also uses a tiered system but includes a broader range of supports that can address multiple aspects of a student's experience, including behavior and mental health.

Purpose

RTI aims to identify struggling learners and intervene early to prevent academic failure, often leading to decisions about special education.
MTSS is designed to provide a continuous, integrated system of supports that aims to meet the needs of all students and improve schoolwide outcomes.

Data-Driven Decision Making

Both systems rely on data to guide decision-making, but MTSS uses a wider variety of data sources, including academic assessments, behavioral data, and social-emotional indicators, to make more holistic decisions.

AIS, RTI, and MTSS

Choosing The Best Approach

By understanding the difference between solutions, schools can choose the best approach for their unique needs and implement a system that fosters equity, early intervention, and long-term success for every learner.

Our team at Mindex is happy to talk with you more about the different support services available for your district to offer students and help get you set up with a system that best fits your needs.

Teacher interacting with her students (1)

Demographics
• Ethnicity, immigration, migration and poverty status
• Exit history
• Special alerts

Assessments
• Ability to track multiple assessment/benchmark data
• Compare assessment results to State Test data

Attendance
• Daily Attendance tracking per AIS/RTI

Intervention
• Actual/Projected Total Intervention Time

Discipline
• Incidence tracking
• Action taken

Communication Tracking
• Auto E-mail Notification of system alerts
• Document Storage
• Letter Tracking
• Conversation Log
• Parent Portal
• User Forum

Custom Letters
• Quick start letter templates
• Easily create own letters and plans

Data Exchange/Integration
• Data conversion
• Daily Attendance import
• Easily import students, staff, and discipline from any SIS/SMS
• State Test import
• Universal Screening & Progress Monitor Data Imports
• Data Warehouse extracts - ESEA Funding

AIS Services Tracking
• Define entry and exit criterion
• Level, intensity and degree
• Standard area

MTSS/RTI Tracking
• Track Academic, Attendance, Behavior, & SEL
• Enter Universal Screening Data
• Identify At-Risk Students
• Progress Monitoring
• Graph Results
• Predict Student Success

History Tracking
• Complete historical tracking of all student data

Meetings
• Automated agenda e-mail notification
• Easily track MTSS/RTI Data Team committee meetings
• Make data-based decisions
• Store Meeting Minutes w/each student meeting

Canned Reports
• Class lists
• Progress reports
• RTI Alerts
• RTI Class Effectiveness
• Response to Intervention Report
• Universal Screening Longitudinal

Custom Query and Reports
• Query on any field in fully relational database
• Create custom reports, including sort by fields & specified filters
• Store custom reports for future use

User Defined Security
• Custom set individual or group security
• Define student access
• Specify document access

Learn why districts are choosing MTSS Edge!

Watch our on demand demo.

We’ll give you an overview of Mindex MTSS Edge, take you through the platform, and you can even submit questions to the team while you watch!

"The module is user friendly with powerful tools for creating data overviews. We found that we were rich with early literacy data, but needed a tool that allowed us to collaboratively analyze the information. The RTI module allows us to do that. Data teams are using the module to analyze classroom data in kindergarten and first grade and quickly identify students who are struggling to attain early literacy benchmarks. The module also allows us to track Tier I, II and III interventions, and measure and graph student progress as they respond to research based interventions. The progress monitoring graphs are dynamic tools for CSE meetings, parent-teacher conferences, and RTI team meetings. When you have everyone looking at the data in a easy to view format the ideas start flowing."

Vestal Central School District

"Teachers have begun to make decisions about how to change the Universal Screening ranges to best show what they teach and how students are really doing in their programs. The teachers and administrators of the Harpursville School District are utilizing the reports available in RTI Edge to help procure and maintain records for grants, write proposals for the addition of professional teaching staff, and facilitate data meetings. We have even had requests from our Junior/Senior High School for records from past students! We are pleased with the information, organization, and flexibility that the RTI Edge system provides. I would recommend this program to anyone! Thank you for making a well-rounded program!

WA Olmsted Elementary School - Harpursville, NY

Mindex MTSS Edge™

Leading the way as the best serviced K-12 MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) software in New York State

Looking for RTI Edge?

The MTSS Edge Difference

A Complete Integrated Solution

NY-Focused

Integration is a Breeze

Highly Customizable

About MTSS Edge

The MTSS Key Features

Academics

Attendance & Behavior

Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

Benchmark ALL students 3x / year

Easily identify struggling learners

Visualize student and class performance

Predict student success