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Their work. Their plan. Their record.
Montessori adolescent programs run on real work: self-directed study, occupations, micro-economy businesses, seminars, community responsibility. Most manage it in tools built on assignment and submission, which is 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.
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, Occupations. Preparation and roles the student owns, and micro-economy budgets with real numbers in them.
- Progress. Self-assessment against a Montessori progression. No grades in the daily work; where a program owes grades, evidence translates into required reports.
- Community life, service, expeditions. A meeting the cohort runs and minutes itself, a guide-verified service log, and trips the students plan and budget before departure.
- Portfolios. Curated by the student for their student-led conference, published as a snapshot.
Built in plane order
- NowAdolescent programs, 12 to 18. The full workspace: work plans, journal, seminars, occupations, self-assessment, community life, service, and expeditions. Student-owned, guide-countersigned. The founding cohort is focused on 12 to 15.
- 15 to 18 packCapstones with external mentors, internships with verified hours, credits toward graduation, and mastery transcripts. Built into the architecture.
- NextUpper Elementary. Work plans, journals, and going-out planning, guide-mediated. The child assembles the evidence and runs the conference.
- NeverBefore the second plane. Deliberately not child-facing. The record can begin early; the interface at that age belongs to the guide.
Privacy as design
A separate platform with school-provisioned accounts and no personal email required, built for FERPA and COPPA through school agreements. No ads, no feed, no peer messaging, no data sold. Selected record sharing with MMAP requires school-specific setup and verification. Journals are excluded from the transfer.
The design partner offer
We are building Waypoint with a founding cohort of three to five adolescent programs. Founding schools help shape the product through real use and feedback. Standard pricing is $1,200 per program per year, or $900 per year for an active MMAP school ($75/month with a 12-month agreement). One program covers one campus’s adolescent cohorts and guides. Begin with a 30-day design-partner pilot for one agreed program, with the start date confirmed in writing. Continuing on a paid plan requires your explicit choice; there is no automatic conversion. See montessorimakerswaypoint.com/pricing.
We ask for monthly feedback and real usage, students and guides doing the actual work of your program. Naming your school as a founding school is optional. Partners also get direct input on the build. Apply at montessorimakerswaypoint.com, or write to info@montessorimakers.org.