You didn't become a teacher to fill out forms. We handle the mundane so you can do what only you can do.
Every hour a teacher spends on paperwork is an hour she is not present with a child. And in Montessori, presence is everything.
The clipboard. The longitudinal record. The progress report written from scratch at 10pm on a Friday. Three separate systems, two manual transfers, all on top of actually teaching twenty-eight children who each learn at their own pace.
Teachers don't hate record keeping. They hate that it pulls them away from the work they trained for years to do. The child in front of them is always more important than the binder at home. The software should know that.
Teachers observe children on a clipboard, transfer those notes to a longitudinal record, then consult that record again to write progress reports. Three steps that should be one.
Montessori teachers have more autonomy than most — and they use it to reject tools that feel imposed on them. If the software doesn't feel like it was designed for children, they won't touch it.
Every quarter, teachers spend hours reinventing the wheel — writing individual paragraphs for every child, from memory, because their notes are buried in binders of index cards.
One tap to record an observation. One source of truth that updates the longitudinal record automatically. No transfer. No binder. No Friday nights catching up.
At the end of the semester, one button generates a draft progress report — written in the right tone for parents, grounded in every observation you made. You edit. You send. You go home.
AI for the mundane.
Teachers for the extraordinary.
Present Notes — Built for Montessori. Designed for presence.
Present Notes is looking for Montessori schools to help shape the product. No commitment — just a conversation.
For school admins and lead teachers. No spam, ever.