What software do Montessori schools use?
Most Montessori schools run on general childcare software that treats a prepared environment as an afterthought. CasaEd is Montessori-native — built by Montessori operators, coming to founding schools first.
Built by Montessori operators
CasaEd is built inside two real Montessori campuses, by the people who run them — the software follows the school, not the other way around.
Both campuses run as living labs: nothing ships to a school that is not our own first.
- Observation and lesson recordsCompassComingCompass, coming in a later wave
- Staying close with familiesPulseNextPulse, one inbox, answers on demand
- Admissions with toursAtriumNextAtrium, from first tour to first day
- Ratios across mixed-age classroomsCadenceNextCadence, ratio status in real time
Montessori-native, not a Montessori mode
Most childcare software adds a Montessori label to a system built for a different model. CasaEd starts from the prepared environment.
Montessori-native
- Built by operators running real Montessori campuses
- Mixed-age classrooms and material progress as first-class concepts
- A pedagogy product designed alongside the rest of the platform, not bolted on
A "Montessori mode" checkbox
- A label applied to software built for a different model
- Age-graded classrooms retrofitted into a mixed-age view
- No pedagogy product — observation stays a spreadsheet
A first look at Compass
In design
Observations, lesson plans, and material progress, organized the Montessori way.
Compass arrives in a later wave. Founding schools help shape it.
See CompassFounding cohort priority for Montessori schools.
Join the founding cohort