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Every observation you make, finally adding up.

You already watch closely and write it down. SproutMap Montessori turns those notes into a living growth map for each child — so conference week isn't archaeology, and "how is my child actually doing?" has a real answer.

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One 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 terracotta 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
This is what you hand a parent in March. Three years of one child's work
A week in your environment

The work is the same. The record stops fighting you.

Nothing here asks you to observe differently, prepare differently, or love the work any less. It asks the paperwork to stop losing what you already saw.

Tuesday, 9:40the shelf

She does the Binomial Cube alone. Finally.

Six weeks of returning to it, and this morning she builds it without a glance at you — then puts it back and chooses again. You have a child at your elbow waiting for a lesson, and by the time the morning settles, the moment is a half-memory you'll write as "did well with sensorial" on Friday, if at all.

Instead: twenty seconds on your phone at the shelf — the material, the moment, a photo of the cube if you want one. Then back to the child waiting.

Thursday, 15:20planning

Who haven't you actually seen this week?

The two who need you loudly, you've seen every day. It's the settled ones you lose — the child who works quietly, chooses the same three works, and hasn't been near mathematics since the first week of term. You know this happens. Catching it depends on remembering to look.

Instead: the children with no recent observation surface on their own, and so do the areas a child hasn't touched in weeks — while it's still a gap and not a term.

Sunday, 20:00the week ahead

Planning next week's presentations from memory.

You reconstruct where twenty-eight children are from a notebook, a few sticky notes, and what you can recall — then write out the same names you wrote last Sunday, because you can't quite remember whether the Stamp Game lesson actually happened.

Instead: plan who gets shown what, and watch entries close themselves as you log the presentations during the week. Next Sunday starts from what happened, not what you remember.

Conference weekWednesday, 21:30

Twenty-eight reports. Four evenings. From scraps.

This is the part nobody warned you about in training: reconstructing a whole term per child, late, from fragments — and writing carefully enough that a parent reads growth rather than a verdict.

Instead: the term's observations are already gathered per child, and the first draft of each report is written from them — in your school's own level words, for you to edit and make yours. You're editing, not excavating.

Marchthe conference itself

"But how is he actually doing?"

The question every parent asks, and the one Montessori answers worst — because the honest answer is a story about three years of unhurried growth, and what they're braced for is a number.

Instead: you turn the screen around. The shape of their child across eight dimensions, three years of it, and behind every part of it the actual observations — the date, the material, what you wrote. No grade. Just the child, visible.

What that adds up to

Six things that stop being your job to remember.

None of this replaces your judgement — it just stops the record depending on your memory at the end of a long week.

The note you took in the moment

Sticky notes, a pocket notebook, the back of a planning sheet, your memory until Friday. Capture it once, on your phone, standing at the shelf — with the material, the date, and a photo of the work if you want one.

Conference week, without the archaeology

Instead of rebuilding a year from scraps the night before, the term's observations are already gathered per child — and the first draft of the family report writes itself from them, for you to edit.

The child who's gone quiet

Thirty children, eight dimensions, and only one of you. See at a glance who hasn't been observed lately, and which areas a child hasn't touched in weeks — before it becomes a gap.

"But how is she doing?"

The question every parent asks and Montessori answers badly with a grade. Show them the shape of their child's growth across three years — with the actual observations behind every part of it.

Next week's presentations

Plan what each child will be shown, then watch the plan close itself as you log the presentations. The loop you already run, without the re-copying.

It's your record, not ours

Export a child's full growth report as a PDF whenever you like — to hand a parent, to keep, or to take with you. No lock-in, no hostage data.

The loop

Watch. Name it. The map moves.

The map moves for exactly one reason: a guide watched a child work and wrote down what it revealed. There's no other input and no side door.

Catch the work moment

A line of anecdotal record as it happens — the material, the date, a photo of the layout if it's worth keeping.

Say what it revealed

When the picture is clear, you draw the conclusion. Four words, and they're Montessori's, not a letter grade.

Practicing Reinforcing Independent Secure

The child's map grows

Dated to the month the work happened, anchored to the plane the child is living in. Nothing decays; nothing resets in September.

What you get, free

The whole Montessori record — not a trial of it.

The free workspace isn't a teaser with the good parts removed. It's the complete record for one classroom, seeded with the Montessori framework the moment you sign up.

The eight dimensions, ready

Practical Life, Sensorial, Language, Mathematics, Cultural Studies, Grace & Courtesy, Movement, Creative Expression — seeded with competencies and a materials library. Zero setup.

Presentations & work moments

Log what you presented and what the child then did with it. A presentation is a record of your work; the child's map waits for the child.

The living growth map

Each child's shape across eight dimensions, month over month, anchored to the planes of development at 3, 6, 9, 12, 15.

Presentation plans

The weekly loop — plan what each child will be shown, and let entries close themselves as you log the presentations.

Your private thinking

Guide-only interpretation stays guide-only. It's walled off in the database itself — never shown to families, never fed to the AI that writes for them.

AI that's read your record

Twenty AI actions a month: draft a conference report from the term's real observations, read the environment, suggest what to present next. You edit; it never decides.

Day notes & follow-ups

What the environment did today, and the small resolutions that fall out of an observation — tracked, not left in your memory.

Milestones & care log

For Nido and toddler rooms: the first-plane record, in the same system as everything that comes after it.

PDF growth reports

Export any child's record as a report you can hand to a parent — yours, anytime, no upgrade required.

✕ No letter grades ✕ No class averages ✕ No ranking children ✕ No scores that fall
Children's information

You're putting children's names in here. We take that seriously.

A record of a child's development is among the most sensitive things a school holds. The rules below aren't a policy page — several are enforced in the database itself, where a mistake in our own code can't get around them.

  • Your workspace is yours alone. One guide, one environment, isolated from every other workspace at the database level — not by a filter in the UI.
  • We don't train AI on your children's records. The AI features read your observations to do the job you asked for, in that moment, and that's the end of it.
  • Guide-private notes stay private. Your interpretation is structurally incapable of reaching a family-facing report.
  • You can take it all with you. Export as PDF whenever you want. If your school later joins, your whole record moves with you rather than being retyped.

Check your school's own policy on recording children's information before you begin — you're the one who knows what your families have agreed to.

What's free, what's the school's

Free for you. Paid by the school, when the school is ready.

Guides shouldn't have to file an expense claim to keep a good record. The free workspace stays free — the school account exists for when a whole school wants one shared record.

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Guide workspace
Free forever

For one guide with one environment.

  • One environment, up to 30 children
  • The full observation record + growth maps
  • Montessori framework & materials, pre-seeded
  • Presentation plans, day notes, follow-ups
  • 20 AI actions per month
  • PDF growth reports, exportable anytime
Start free — no card
School account
$40–75 per classroom / month

For a school that wants one shared record. Paid by the school, not by you.

  • Every classroom, every child, one library
  • Co-guides, assistants and leadership
  • Family accounts and published reports
  • Your framework, level words and year start
  • AI without a monthly cap
  • Oversight across classrooms and planes
See the school account

Already using it and want your school on board? There's a "bring this to my school" button inside — it sends us the introduction, and your existing record moves into the school account rather than being retyped.

Straight answers

The questions guides actually ask.

Is it really free, or free until you change your mind?

Really free, for one guide with one environment of up to thirty children. There's no card on file and no trial clock. We make money from school accounts — a guide who never upgrades costs us very little and is exactly who the free tier is for.

Do I need my school's permission?

You're recording information about children, so check your school's policy first — that's your call, not ours, and you know what your families agreed to. Plenty of guides start with their own classroom record; some schools prefer to adopt it together, which is what the school account is for.

What happens when my school joins later?

Your workspace merges into the school account with your consent — children, observations and history move as they are. That's the whole point of doing it in one transaction rather than asking you to retype a year of work.

Is this a gradebook with Montessori words pasted on?

No, and it's built so it can't drift into one. There are no letter grades, no class averages, no ranking of children, and nothing decays. The planes are Montessori's own — 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 — checked against the source texts rather than invented to fit a chart.

What does the AI actually do?

It reads the observations you wrote and helps you with them: a first draft of a conference report, a read on what's happening in the environment, suggestions for what to present next. It never sets a level, never moves a child's map, and never sends anything to a family. Twenty actions a month on the free workspace.

Which planes does it cover?

Nido and toddler through Adolescent/Erdkinder — ceilings at 3, 6, 9, 12 and 15. First-plane rooms get milestones and a care log; Elementary gets going-out plans and the work journal.

Can I get my data out?

Yes — PDF growth reports for any child, whenever you want, on the free plan. It's your record of your work.

One classroom, free, today

Start with the children you'll see on Monday.

Sign up, name your environment, and the Montessori framework is waiting for you. Your first observation takes about a minute.

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