Title I
Title I funds are allocated to schools with high numbers of students from low-income families. These funds are designed to help improve student academic achievement by addressing barriers to learning and supporting students’ overall success.
Why Minga Fits
Minga is a perfect match for Title I funding as it directly supports schools in improving student outcomes. It helps reduce chronic absenteeism, increases instructional time, and boosts student engagement—all crucial factors in closing achievement gaps.
Chronic Absenteeism and Tardiness Improvement: Mingas Tardy and Truancy Management solution provides schools with accurate and real-time data on student attendance and punctuality. It also helps schools increase accountability with built-in progressive discipline frameworks. In this way, Minga helps schools identify patterns, intervene early, and improve overall attendance rates – a crucial metric for school success.
Increased Instructional Time: By improving tardy management and hallway management, Minga reduces disruptions and ensures that students spend more time in the classroom, maximizing learning opportunities.
Behavior and Intervention Support: Minga’s reporting tools, which monitor student behavior and tardiness, offer insights into individual student needs. Schools can then use this information to customize interventions, create support plans, or even implement curricular adjustments to better serve each student.
Engagement Data for School Improvement Goals: Minga delivers actionable data on student engagement, providing schools with insights that align with their school improvement goals, helping drive decision-making and improvement strategies.
Title II
Title II funds focus on increasing the quality of teachers, principals, and other school leaders. The goal is to increase students’ academic achievement by helping schools and districts improve teacher and principal quality. Supports efforts to enhance professional development, recruit and retain high-quality educators, and improve teaching practices
Why Minga Fits
Minga supports Title II goals by offering teachers tools to streamline classroom management, reduce disruptions, and provide data-driven insights into student behavior, enabling educators to refine their practices and improve their effectiveness. Teachers get consistency, fewer interruptions, and better tools to enhance their daily experience.
Improved Classroom Management: Minga streamlines hall movement and behavior workflows, allowing teachers to focus on teaching rather than managing disruptions.
Reducing Teacher Strain: By automating behavior tracking and providing real-time data, Minga reduces the administrative burden on teachers, giving them more time to focus on instruction.
Consistent Staff Expectations: Minga ensures that all staff members have access to the same real-time data and behavior tracking tools, maintaining consistency in expectations across the school.
Recruitment and Onboarding: Minga’s user-friendly platform can be a strong recruitment asset. New hires are introduced to a comprehensive campus management system, ensuring they’re equipped with essential tools from the start.
Supporting Teacher Professional Development: Minga’s technology helps teachers enhance their classroom management skills by providing them with actionable insights, promoting growth in managing behavior and improving student engagement.
Title IV
Title IV-A funding is designed to help create safe and supportive learning environments, improve student access to a well-rounded education, and increase the effective use of technology to support student achievement.
Why Minga Fits
Minga aligns with Title IV-A’s goals by enhancing campus safety, supporting SEL programs, and improving visibility into student movement and behavior. It’s a powerful tool to help foster a positive, safe, and supportive learning environment.
Safe & Healthy Students: Minga ensures a safer campus by providing real-time visibility into student movement and giving schools the control to better prevent incidents. Minga actively curbs opportunities for negative behaviors such as vaping, violence, or drug use in secluded areas like restrooms.
SEL & Intervention Support: Minga helps schools manage and monitor student behavior and engagement, enabling early intervention and SEL support when needed. Minga’s flex period scheduling allows students to explore varied learning avenues, ensuring a holistic educational experience beyond the regular curriculum – leading to highly personalized educational pathways.
Improved Visibility: Minga offers administrators and staff a real-time overview of student movement, behavior, and engagement, helping to ensure that students are in the right place at the right time and getting access to the support they need.
Effective Use of Technology: Minga integrates seamlessly into existing school systems, supporting the effective use of technology for behavior management.
School Improvement Funds
School Improvement Funds are typically used to support efforts aimed at improving school programs and operations, overall performance, and student achievement. These funds are often allocated based on the school’s strategic plan to address specific areas like attendance, behavior, climate, and instructional time.
Why Minga Fits
Minga aligns directly with the key focus areas of school improvement by improving attendance, enhancing campus climate, reducing behavioral issues, supporting staff capacity, and maximizing instructional time.
Chronic Absenteeism & Tardiness: Mingas Tardy and Truancy Management solution provides schools with accurate and real-time data on student attendance and punctuality. It also helps schools increase accountability with built-in progressive discipline frameworks. In this way, Minga helps schools identify patterns, intervene early, and improve overall attendance rates – a crucial metric for school success.
Campus Climate & Safety Goals: Minga ensures smoother transitions between classes, prevents hallway and bathroom incidents, and fosters a safer, more supportive campus environment.
Instructional Time Recovery: By minimizing time lost to tardy and hallway disruptions, Minga ensures that more time is spent on learning, which is a core focus of most school improvement plans.
Staff & Teacher Experience: Minga reduces administrative overhead for teachers and staff, leading to a more positive work environment and improved staff retention.
Safety & Security Funds
Safety & Security Funds are intended to help create and foster safe and healthy learning environments for all students. This includes supporting efforts to prevent violence, enhance supervision, and ensure students’ safety during classroom and non-classroom times across campus.
Why Minga Fits
Minga directly supports campus safety by enhancing visibility and control across key areas, including on- and off-campus movement, hallway and bathroom use. The platform provides real-time data on student movement, helping staff maintain control, prevent incidents, and respond quickly.
Real-Time Visibility: Know exactly who is on your campus, and where, at any given time. Minga offers real-time visibility of student movement, which helps staff ensure students are where they need to be and prevents safety incidents.
Reducing Disruptive Behavior: With a comprehensive behavior management system, Minga helps identify, address, and reward student behaviors in real-time, ultimately reducing incidents of disruptive behavior and helping to maintain a safer environment.
Fostering a Safe School Environment: Minga’s ability to streamline the management of hallways and student movement contributes to a safer, more predictable environment for both students and staff. Minga has been shown to help reduce violence, vaping, and unnecessary meet-ups across campus.
Secure & Efficient Communication: Minga offers a safer, more secure, and streamlined option for school-wide messaging, compared to social networks like Instagram or Facebook.
Technology Funds
Technology Funds are designed to help schools modernize their systems, replace outdated technology, and ensure that they have the tools needed to support teaching, learning, and administrative efficiency.
Why Minga Fits
Minga can consolidate multiple legacy systems (like hall passes, tardy check in, points and rewards, behavior management, and RTI scheduling) into one unified platform, making it a perfect fit for tech modernization efforts.
Modernization: Minga helps schools modernize outdated workflows and systems, reducing reliance on paper-based processes and disconnected digital tooling.
Consolidation & Efficiency: Minga allows schools to consolidate multiple systems into one, reducing administrative complexity and freeing up resources for other initiatives. With multiple solutions in one connected platform, Minga is a cost-effective way to modernize campus operations.