Their work. Their plan. Their record.

Montessori adolescent programs run on real work: self-directed study, occupations, micro-economy businesses, seminars, community responsibility. Most of them manage that work in tools built on assignment and submission. The teacher assigns, the student complies, the teacher grades. Compliance architecture for a pedagogy built on ownership. Waypoint inverts it: the student builds the plan, keeps the record, and assesses the work. The guide observes, confers, and countersigns. A waypoint is a reference point a traveler sets for themselves along a route. That is what this tool holds.

What the student owns

• Work Plan. The student sets the week, the goals, and the commitments. The guide countersigns.
• Journal. A working record with real reflection. The student chooses what the guide sees.
• Projects & Seminars. Preparation, sources, roles, and visible readiness.
• Occupations. Real responsibilities and micro-economy budgets with real numbers.
• Progress. Self-assessment against a Montessori progression. No grades anywhere in the product.

Built in plane order

• NowAdolescents. The full workspace, student-owned and guide-countersigned. The founding cohort is adolescent programs only.
• NextUpper Elementary. Work plans and journals, guide-mediated. Going-out planning: the trip, the budget, the phone calls, planned by the children who are going. Student-led conference portfolios: the child assembles the evidence and runs the meeting.
• NeverBefore the second plane. Deliberately not child-facing. The record can begin early, but the interface at that age belongs to the guide. A record that begins with the guide at six becomes a workspace the student owns at sixteen.

Privacy as design

A separate platform from the adult system, with separate school-provisioned accounts and no personal email required. Built for FERPA and COPPA compliance through school agreements. No ads, no social feed, no peer-to-peer messaging, no data sold. Records sync to MMAP so school records live where school records live; what a student marks private never leaves their journal. A work tool, not a surveillance tool.

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