Free for Montessori guides

The digital record that actually captures a child's learning journey.

You already observe and document: on paper, in a spreadsheet, wherever the day allows. Then those notes sit idle until you can find an hour to look back for patterns. In SproutMap they come alive, tracing the ebbs and flows of how each child really learns and grows, a living picture of every child in your classroom.

No credit card A sample classroom is already inside Includes AI analysis
A child's growth map across eight Montessori dimensions Eight spokes labelled Practical Life, Sensorial, Language, Mathematics, Cultural Studies, Grace and Courtesy, Movement and Coordination, and Creative Expression. Four concentric rings mark Practicing, Reinforcing, Independent and Secure. An organic teal shape grows outward across three successive snapshots of the same child. PRACTICING REINFORCING INDEPENDENT SECURE Practical Life Sensorial Language Mathematics CulturalStudies Grace &Courtesy Movement &Coordination CreativeExpression
Aya · 7 · Lower Elementary Ten sample children, one map each
The whole workflow

Draft your observations.

Every record starts in the same small card, written where you stand: a moment you saw, a level you concluded, or a lesson you presented. The card is live, so go ahead: flip through its three tabs, edit the assessment, file it, and watch the map answer.

Quick observation
Amara O. Stamp Game

Carried a long division through with the stamps unaided, then chose the material again this morning.

Practicing Reinforcing Independent Secure
20 seconds
PRACTICING REINFORCING INDEPENDENT SECURE Practical Life Sensorial Language Mathematics Cultural Studies Grace &Courtesy Movement &Coordination CreativeExpression

Mathematics, moved by this observation

The map moves
AI class analysis
Trends
Creative Expression is thin across the room

Six of ten children have few recorded work moments here. Under-resourced, or under-observed.

Learner clusters
Small Bead FrameAmara · Mateo

Both now carry the Stamp Game unaided. One presentation, two children ready for it.

Timeline of LifeElena · Yuki

Elena chose it herself; Yuki's leaf work reaches the same story from the botany side.

Word StudyOmar · Hana

Omar built his own suffix list, and Hana's grammar boxes point the same way.

Outliers
Observe firstLiam

Little recorded in movement this term. Watch before presenting anything new.

Who's ready for what

Interface drawings, simplified from the live app. The children are the sample classroom's fictional cohort; no real child appears on this site. Nothing you type here is sent or stored anywhere, and the material and dimension are scripted for the demo, not inferred: in the app you choose them yourself.

The map moves for exactly one reason: you observed a child work and wrote down what it revealed. There is no other input. And because the record accumulates, the AI can read all of it back: which children have gone quiet, what might be presented next and why, the first draft of every family report. It never sets a level, and nothing it writes reaches a family unless you send it.

An invitation

Help us build a better tool.

SproutMap Montessori is young, and the guides using it are shaping it. We aren't selling you anything at this stage. We're asking you to bring your classroom, keep your record here, and tell us where the tool falls short of the practice: there's a feedback button inside the app, and what you write there goes straight to the people building it.

In return, guides who sign up now keep free access to SproutMap forever. One environment, up to thirty children, the eight dimensions already seeded, so there's nothing to build before your first observation.

Straight answers

The questions guides actually ask.

Is it really free?

Yes. One guide, one environment, up to thirty children. No credit card, no trial clock, and no surprise paywall later: guides who sign up now keep free access forever. We make money when an entire school wants one shared record.

Do I need my school's permission?

Not to sign up, and it creates no billing or commitment for your school. You are still recording information about children, though, so follow your school's policies and whatever your families have agreed to.

We take that seriously on our side too: we don't sell or share your data, and the platform is built to operate within applicable student and data privacy requirements.

Is this a gradebook with Montessori words on it?

No. It's built from the ground up around how a guide actually works: how you were trained to observe, what you capture to support each child's development, and how you prepare your environment. There are no letter grades, no averages, no ranking, and nothing decays; the levels are Practicing, Reinforcing, Independent and Secure, and the planes are Montessori's own.

It's also why we take guide feedback so seriously. Where the tool doesn't match the practice, the tool changes.

What is AI doing in a Montessori record?

The work around your observations, never the judgment behind them. It can turn your notes into conference report drafts, suggest what might be worth presenting next, and surface patterns across the environment.

It never assesses a child, and nothing it writes reaches a family on its own. It hands you analysis; you review it and decide what happens next.

I'm on Transparent Classroom or another system. Now what?

Keep using it. Try SproutMap alongside it for a few weeks and see what holds up in your classroom; the free workspace makes that easy without changing anything or taking on another subscription. Your own classroom is a better comparison than anything we could write here.

Can a child's record transfer out?

Sort of. During the year you can export a PDF growth report for any child, at any time, on the free plan. And if a child stays with you for multiple years, their record stays with them in your workspace.

If they move to another guide within your school, the school needs a school account so the record can move with them. And if your school joins SproutMap later, your existing workspace is brought into the school account; nothing is retyped. It's your record of the work.

See what it does with your own classroom.

Start with the children you'll see on Monday. Add an observation, watch the map answer, and let SproutMap turn your notes into something you can actually use. Or poke around the sample classroom first; it has a full year of history in it.

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