Adoption dashboard
Adoption, last login and log counts per teacher, so you know where to support and where to grow.
For district leaders
Documentation your district can stand behind.
Dated, objective records captured in the moment, from first observation to due process. Start with one team and grow from there.
The questions on your desk
The questions that keep coming back to you.
Behavior documentation is where compliance, staffing and student outcomes meet. It usually lands on your desk with very little data attached.
If this goes to a due process hearing, what will our documentation actually show?
Are teachers recording behavior when it happens, or rebuilding it from memory at the end of the day?
Which teachers are using the tools we bought, and which have quietly stopped?
Why do our MTSS meetings still start with stories instead of data?
How do we keep the special educators with the hardest classrooms from burning out?
The problem
The Analog Gap is costing you more than you think.
Teachers track behavior on sticky notes and scraps of paper, then reconstruct the day from memory at 5 PM, exhausted and rushing to pick up their own kids. That is the Analog Gap, and high-stakes decisions end up resting on summaries written after the fact.
A moment written up hours later records how the teacher felt, not what happened:
Hours later“He’s impossible, he yells at everyone.”
In the moment“Asked to transition during centers, he covered his ears and yelled for 3 minutes.”
Your first term
Most districts start with a team of five.
They expand once teachers rely on it. Here is how a first team gets going.
Week 1
Discovery call
A 30-minute conversation about your district’s challenges and goals.Week 2
Setup
We configure your organization, roster teachers through ClassLink, OneRoster or PowerSchool, and train teachers if needed.Weeks 3 and 4
Supported launch
Teachers start logging, with our team available for real-time support.Week 8 and on
Measure impact
Review data quality, teacher feedback and documentation completeness, then decide where to grow.
People are amazed when they come see how much calmer my room is since the first week of school.
The outcome
What changes for your district.
Before: Records written hours later, from memory.
With BrighterBalance: Dated, objective records captured in the moment, from first observation to due process.
Before: No way to tell whether teachers use what you bought.
With BrighterBalance: Leaders see adoption, last login and log counts per teacher.
Before: Questions that wait for someone to build a report.
With BrighterBalance: With Leader AI, leaders ask questions across the team’s data.
Before: One more platform for teachers to feed by hand.
With BrighterBalance: Export-ready data for the MTSS platform your district already owns.
Retention matters too. Replacing one teacher costs a district about $25K (Learning Policy Institute, 2024). Teachers who log in seconds and get support in the moment spend fewer evenings rebuilding their day from memory.
Where we fit
It feeds the MTSS platform you already own.
BrighterBalance is the input layer: teachers capture the moment, and the data flows to the systems your district already runs. It doesn’t replace them.
In
Rostering
Teachers and classes come from ClassLink (Certified Partner), OneRoster (certified) or PowerSchool. Nobody keeps spreadsheets of student names.
BrighterBalance
Capture and documentation
Every adult logs to one student profile. Goals, plans and reports come out of that record.
Out
Your MTSS and IEP systems
Export-ready data for Branching Minds, Panorama and eduCLIMBER. Teams copy BIP and IEP behavior content into the IEP system they already use.
Vendor review
We meet the standards your district requires.
Vetting is where good tools stall. We work through the same standards organizations your district already uses, so rostering and setup move fast instead of sitting in a queue.
Responsibly Designed AI Certified
Digital Promise reviewed BrighterBalance against five requirements: privacy, data security, bias monitoring, AI labels, and educator override.
Verify
ClassLink Certified Partner
Single sign-on and automated rostering through LaunchPad and Roster Server. Teachers sign in with the account the district already manages.
1EdTech TrustEd Apps Certified
Data Privacy Certified: our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use independently reviewed against 1EdTech's Data Privacy Rubric. OneRoster 1.2 certified, so class lists stay current without manual uploads.
A4L Community Member
Member of the Access 4 Learning Community, home of the Student Data Privacy Consortium.
Student data is never sold, never used for ads, and never used to train AI. Read our Privacy Promise
Certified by Digital Promise
“We rigorously review all AI tools and a Responsibly Designed AI Certification from Digital Promise is a valuable data point in our reviews. Having a trusted third-party certification focused on ethics gives us insight into AI tools that we currently lack.”
From Digital Promise's certification announcement, April 2025
For leaders and reviewers
What district leaders use.
Evaluating the evidence base? Read The Research Behind BrighterBalance.
Leader AI · Organization
Leader AI
Ask questions across the team’s data and see patterns across teachers and schools. An add-on, or included in Organization.
See Leader AI on pricing: Leader AIIntegrations
Rostering through ClassLink, OneRoster and PowerSchool. Export-ready data for Branching Minds, Panorama and eduCLIMBER.
See integrations: IntegrationsFunding & Purchasing
Funding sources that may apply, purchase orders, and the DPA and security documents procurement asks for.
See funding and purchasing: Funding & PurchasingPrivacy Promise
Student data is never sold, never used for ads, and never used to train AI.
Read the Privacy Promise: Privacy PromiseResponsibly Designed AI
Independently certified by Digital Promise. Teachers make the call.
See how the Advisor is certified: Responsibly Designed AISee how it fits your MTSS workflow.
For districts and special education teams
Documentation your district can stand behind.
See how BrighterBalance fits your MTSS workflow, your rostering and the platform you already own. Most districts start with a team of five.
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