Developmental milestone tracking
All learning domains, banded by age from the infant room through Pre-K, with the indicator set switching automatically at age two.
Grow Metrics 360 is the all-in-one platform where teachers document development, administrators share progress with families, and parent-teacher conferences schedule themselves, from the infant room through Pre-K.
Our founders ran the schools. We watched teachers scribble a milestone on a sticky note, type it into a binder, re-type it into a report template, keep the child's writing samples in a folder nobody could find, then chase parents by text to book a conference. The child's story was real. The system around it wasn't.
Teachers, administrators, and families each get a view designed for what they actually need to do, connected to the same underlying record.
Rate each coded skill in the Fall, Winter, and Spring columns as you observe it, write the semester's observations, snap photos straight into the child's portfolio, and upload the writing sample. The report you already hand to parents builds itself as you go.
Record what you saw, upload the one writing or drawing sample that represents the semester, and tag the developmental domains it demonstrates.
Take the picture in the moment and it lands in that child's portfolio, tagged to a domain and term. No camera roll to sort later, and no second app. Visible to your teaching team and administrators.
Age-appropriate indicators are pre-loaded, so you rate what's relevant instead of scrolling past what isn't.
What you document becomes the progress report and the conference talking points automatically.
| Code | Skill | F | W | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL1 | Demonstrates Interest to Learn through Collaborative Participation | D | ||
| AL2 | Demonstrates Curiosity and Initiative by Asking Questions | M | ||
| AL5 | Initiates Social and Investigative Play with Peers Independently | EDM |
| Code | Skill | F | W | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LL1 | Demonstrates Print Concepts & Direction | M | ||
| LL4.2 | Correctly Identifies Uppercase Letters | M | ||
| LL5.1 | Demonstrates Phonological Awareness – Rhyming | D |
Directors and owners get the oversight view: who has been assessed, which reports are ready to release to families, and which conferences still need a slot.
Track assessment progress by classroom, teacher, and term, so you can step in before a deadline slips.
Review, approve, and publish a whole classroom's progress reports to the parent portal together.
Open the dates and durations that work for your program, then let families claim the slots.
Families open their child's own dashboard: the released report with the teacher's notes, the semester's writing sample, and the full skills record one tap away, plus the conference slots, bookable on the spot.
View Full Report opens the same Domain Skills Record the teacher completed, with Emerging, Developing, and Mastery defined right on the page.
Teacher notes and the child's own writing sample sit right on the dashboard, so families see the story behind the ratings.
Pick a slot that fits around work and childcare. No paper sheet, no phone tag.
We are so glad to have Owen in PK1 this year! Owen shows real curiosity and asks wonderful questions during small group. This spring we'll keep working on self-regulation and using words to name feelings.
View Full ReportSix connected capabilities that replace the binder, the group chat, the report template, and the paper sign-up sheet.
All learning domains, banded by age from the infant room through Pre-K, with the indicator set switching automatically at age two.
Anecdotal notes through the semester, photos dropped into the child's portfolio from your phone, and the one writing sample uploaded for the term, all attached to the milestones they demonstrate. Evidence, not a checkbox list.
Term reports generated from the documentation teachers already captured, in plain language families actually read.
Open your conference window, let families claim their own slot, and send reminders automatically. No sign-up sheet, no phone tag.
Live completion tracking by classroom, teacher, and term, so directors can support their team instead of chasing them.
Each semester's report is saved and stays there. Fall, Winter, Spring, year after year, so a child's full history is a click away, even after they change classrooms or teachers.
Assessment is ongoing, not a one-off. Teachers gather evidence during free-choice center play, small-group instruction, and individual assessments across three periods (Fall, Winter, and Spring), so families see the trajectory, not a single snapshot.
The skill has been introduced, and the child is beginning to explore or demonstrate it with significant support.
The child demonstrates the skill with teacher guidance, prompting, or occasional assistance.
The child independently demonstrates the skill correctly on at least three separate occasions, without assistance.
All learning domains, built for the pace of the youngest rooms.
The domain set widens as classroom expectations do.
Every coded skill in every domain, with its Fall, Winter, and Spring rating side by side.
What the child actually produced: letters and sounds identified, numbers, shapes, positional words, equations solved.
A written narrative for the term: what the teacher is seeing, and what the class is working toward next.
One sample per semester. The child's own work, uploaded by the teacher and reproduced in the report as evidence of growth.
For Pre-K, a phased Dolch and high-frequency word list tracked against each child's end-of-year goal.
Every report carries your school's own name and letterhead. Families see your program, not our software.
The hardest week of the term becomes four clicks. Administrators set the window, the platform does the coordinating, and every teacher walks in with the child's documentation already in front of them.
Choose the dates, slot length, and buffer between meetings for each classroom.
Parents pick a time from the same place they read their child's progress report.
Confirmations and nudges reach families without anyone chasing them.
Each meeting opens with that child's milestones, observations, portfolio photos, and writing sample ready to discuss.
Teachers and admin were juggling multiple tools to say one thing about a child. We wanted a single place where that story could live, and where families could actually see it.
SD Sandy DengCo-Founder · School Owner & Vision LeadGrow Metrics 360 was founded by a team of education leaders and innovators who understand the realities of early childhood classrooms, because they work in them.
By combining expertise in school leadership, curriculum design, and student-driven innovation, our team created a platform that simplifies how educators track student growth, communicate with families, and manage parent-teacher conferences.
Every feature exists because a teacher, a director, or a parent needed it first. Nothing here was designed in the abstract.
Co-Founder · School Owner & Vision Lead
A school owner with extensive experience in early childhood education, Sandy saw firsthand how teachers were juggling multiple tools to track assessments and communicate with families. She envisioned Grow Metrics 360 as a single platform that streamlines these tasks while supporting meaningful connections between teachers and parents.
Co-Founder · Product Design & Systems Thinking
A student with strong skills in problem-solving, systems design, and user-focused technology, Kobe recognized the challenges educators face managing assessments, reporting, and scheduling across multiple tools. He helped design Grow Metrics 360 to be intuitive for administrators, efficient for teachers, and simple for parents, demonstrating how analyzing real-world challenges can create meaningful impact in education.
Co-Founder · School Director & Curriculum Strategy
Jaclyn leads the development of the assessment framework itself. She defines the learning domains, writes the skill indicators inside each one, and sets the age bands so teachers only rate what is developmentally appropriate for the children in front of them. She calibrates the Emerging, Developing, and Mastery language so two teachers rating the same child arrive at the same place, and maps every indicator to developmental standards, which is why the framework holds up as a research-based tool and still fits inside a real teaching day.
Co-Founder · Director of Education & Program Development
Michelle leads educational strategy and program development, ensuring Grow Metrics 360 reflects best practices in early childhood education. She helps teachers use data and documentation to better understand and support each child's growth, and turns what the framework captures into practical next steps for lesson planning and classroom coaching.
Built by educators. Designed with systems in mind. Made for classrooms.
The full early childhood span, from the infant room through Pre-Kindergarten. There are two banded domain sets: one for children under two, and a wider one for Early Preschool through Pre-K (roughly two to five years). Indicators are age-banded within each, so teachers only rate what's developmentally relevant for the children in front of them.
The documentation flow was designed to mirror what teachers already do: notice something, note it, and file the child's writing sample alongside it. Most teachers are logging their first observation the same day. Administrators get a short onboarding walkthrough for setting up classrooms, terms, and conference windows.
Yes. Teachers upload photos straight from a phone or tablet into the child's portfolio, tag the developmental domain, and add a short caption. Photos stay organized by child, domain, and term, so the evidence behind a rating is one tap away at conference time. Portfolio photos are visible to your teaching team and administrators only, not to families, and they stay inside the child's record rather than in anyone's camera roll or a group chat.
Yes. Our curriculum team builds milestone sets aligned to developmental standards, and programs can adapt the indicators and domains to match the framework they already use. Talk to us about your specific framework during the demo.
Families get a secure portal where they see only their own child's reports, every semester the school has released, not just the newest one, along with the observations and writing sample behind each. Reports are released by the school when administrators are ready. Conference booking lives in that same portal, so parents never have to switch tools.
That's the point. Grow Metrics 360 consolidates milestone tracking, observation documentation, progress reporting, family communication about development, and conference scheduling into one platform, replacing the four or five disconnected tools most programs are stitching together today.
Not at all. It was built inside a single school first. It scales to multi-room and multi-site programs, but a one-location center with a handful of classrooms is exactly the environment it was designed in.
Tell us about your program and we'll walk you through Grow Metrics 360 using your age groups, your terms, and your conference calendar, not a generic sandbox.