Minga

“We are a very proud school. We used to not be the crazy ‘school-spirited school’, but now because of Minga that pride has definitely increased.”

“The tools certainly have bought us back time that we can now invest back into relationships. I don’t have to figure out 3 different reports to run data on who’s in or out of my building. Minga now does a lot of those things for us, allowing us to buy back hours in the day to go be with the kids and reinvest in those relationships.”

“In terms of the behavior side, Minga is a necessary tool. Now, our campus supervisors can issue a dress code or cafeteria violation immediately on the app. They don’t need to write a referral that goes to the Dean. It’s instant feedback, instant action — something that doesn’t require a whole lot of documentation.”

“Minga has exceeded expectations — the impact was more than I anticipated. I didn’t expect how extensively we could use the hall pass system for so many different things. And this has really helped to cut out the mystery about what these kids are doing.”

“Now, I look out at the quad and I don’t see anyone just wandering around anymore. I don’t have to fill my day with chasing around wandering students — they’re now far more aware of time.”

““Minga has been an incredible tool in helping us navigate the unique challenges of middle school. It provides the structure students need while still allowing for flexibility in how we deliver support. It’s made a huge difference in how we approach interventions.””

““Minga was a total game-changer for us. We’ve been able to solve some of our biggest challenges all in one place—interventions, hallway movement, bathroom behavior, and school operations in general—things aren’t falling through the cracks anymore. The biggest impact is that with FlexTime, our teachers are able to provide targeted support where it’s needed most, and a lot more value has been brought to flex period, Pride Time.””

““The previous system was disorganized and didn’t support the level of structure we needed. PrideTime wasn’t being used for targeted interventions, and we weren’t able to keep track of behavior across the school. It felt like we were always putting out fires rather than being proactive.””

“We’re trying to reach those kids that don’t necessarily go to events and activities. Because they need a reason why. Now, student involvement has increased with rewards. These kids want to be on the leaderboard – they want to be number one.”

“I love the Behavior Manager. I love that in real time, when a teacher assigns a guidance, the parent is notified. This helps our team, and it helps our parents — instead of waiting till the end of the day — to hear about their child. I feel like that has been very successful.”

“Kids would lose their IDs all the time, or say ‘I forgot to bring it today.’ But they never forget their phones. We were also having a huge issue with the hall passes you put over your neck. They were constantly disappearing and being mismanaged — not just by students, but by teachers too.”

“Hallway traffic is down — we credit that to using Minga to its fullest potential. We’re able to restrict passes. We notice a group of kids always getting together, so we add them to the No Party Group list. And then also might have a student creating a pass every 30 minutes when they don’t really need to, so we can restrict their access to 2 passes.”

“The automation piece is crucial to success. That’s part of the reason why Minga is so valuable.”

“Our flex block used to be chaos — manual tracking, session switching, and spreadsheet adjusting. With Minga, the majority of our flex block issues have been resolved. I can set up our schedule in minutes. I build it once, duplicate it, and it’s done. Minga has taken what was quite a chaotic time by nature and design and given a layer of order to it all.”

“If I were to describe Minga to someone else I would say it allows us to more efficiently collect, understand, and manage all non instructional parts of our campus, extracurricular, athletic, performing arts, everything essentially that’s outside the classroom.”

“I can promise you that when you get to level with Minga, you’re able then to spend less time working with pencil and paper and more time working with humans.”

“We’re holding everyone accountable through this system that we now have, there is no room for interpretation. It’s made my life as a Dean of Students 100% easier. I’m now able to have more concrete conversations as opposed to guessing. We’re also able to create goals based off this data and it definitely helps us drive the initiatives that we want to put in place.”

“We were able to track behaviors and give consequences before (with Hero), it just wasn’t streamlined or as clear as Minga. I would physically have to go in and track each person individually. Now, it’s more streamlined — all I have to do is export it, put it in a document, post it, and that’s it.”

“Students were not being there for learning time. They’re missing instruction. They’re missing important information. And a lot of teachers were not being cognizant of the first 10, last 10 minutes of using the restroom, which is the most important part of the class period.”

““Students talk to each other about meeting the check in criteria. Parents even show up to collect prizes for their kids!””

““Tracking on-time attendance is important, but having a system that seamlessly combines digital check ins, behavior management, and student incentives made Minga a true one-stop shop.””

““It’s about more than tracking data—it’s about making students feel seen. I want to track on-time attendance, but I also want to say thank you. This helps me do both.””

“I was able to go to my PTS Association and say: “We have kids that are getting Minga points and other rewards. Is there any way that you could help support us?” So now they’re funding some of the stuff that’s going into our school store. Plus, the district is funding some other rewards too. That wouldn’t be possible without all the data.”

“The more that I look at the feed and see what my staff is doing with it, the more I’m happy with it and proud that they’re using it. We have a lot of club advisors on this campus, and I see a lot of clubs advertising their meetings on Minga.”

“The hassle was dealing with physical pieces of paper all the time. We used to have zonal passes — meaning that if you were in a red zone, you had a red pass. But constantly having to reprint those or get them back into the teacher’s hands was a challenge. And then, what can you do with that stuff? You have no data with it. Getting anything like that would have to be done manually — which makes no sense.”