An invitation to schools and community organisations
It takes a village.
Together, we help children grow.
A child is supported by more than the people living under one roof. Parents, carers, teachers, mentors, community organisations and family support services can all play an important role in helping children develop confidence, build positive habits and feel understood.
Through The Growing Village, Progress Path aims to bring these connections closer, encouraging shared understanding, stronger relationships and practical support around family life.
Whether you are a school, a community centre, a fostering organisation or a family support service, we would love to explore how you could become part of the village.
Progress Path community ecosystem
The Growing Village
Everyone has a part in helping children grow. The Growing Village is the wider community around Progress Path, bringing together families, carers, educators, employers and community organisations to support children's development through connection, encouragement and shared understanding.
Who the village is for
Different organisations hold very different responsibilities around a child. All of them can be part of the support around a family.
Schools and educators
Building positive connections between home and education, with a shared language for encouragement and progress.
Family and parenting support
Supporting parents, carers, foster families and guardians with practical tools, conversations and encouragement.
Community organisations
Bringing together family hubs, community centres, youth groups, charities and local organisations that help children and families thrive.
What we are actually asking schools to join
Not a platform, and not a product to roll out. A way of treating effort that works better when home and school are doing it at the same time.
Recognition before reward
A child who is only ever corrected learns what not to do. A child whose effort is noticed learns who they are becoming. That holds in a classroom as surely as it does in a kitchen.
A shared language of encouragement
When children experience understanding and encouragement across the different parts of their lives, it can help them feel more supported. Progress Path aims to give families and schools a clearer way to talk about effort, everyday routines, developing confidence and the positive steps children are taking.
What this is not
Said plainly, because every school asks and every parent worries.
Not a monitoring tool
It does not report a child's behaviour to their school. The family decides what is shared, and nothing travels on its own.
Not a record on the child
Tasks are rated. The child is not. Nothing in the method produces a score of a child as a person.
Not a clinical assessment
Progress Path is a family journal and a method. It is not medical, psychological or educational advice, and it makes no clinical claim.
What we would like to build with schools
Every item below is proposed, not agreed and not scheduled. It is written down so you can hold us to it, and so nobody mistakes an intention for an offer. None of it is on sale.
A few schools first
A small number of schools working alongside families who already use the method, so what gets built is shaped by real classrooms rather than guesswork.
Assemblies about screens
Sessions for children on getting off screens and social media, and on what is worth their attention instead. Proposed, not scheduled, and we would build them with you rather than arrive with them finished.
The method, taught
The method is written to be taught. In time, staff trained to use the same language in school that a family is using at home.
One shared vocabulary
A child hearing the same words for effort and recognition in both places. That is the whole point of joining the two halves up.
App functionality
School sharing in the app
This section is about one specific feature in the Progress Path app, and nothing else on this page. It is not available to community organisations, and it is not open to schools.
Progress Path is built so a family can share a chosen summary of their child's routine with a school or support service. The family's administrator decides what is shared, sees exactly what the school will see before anything is sent, and can end it at any time. This part is being introduced by invitation and is not yet open to schools.
School sharing is being introduced gradually. A parent or family administrator chooses whether to invite a school professional, what information to share, and when to end that access. The professional cannot access the family's private pages.
Privacy, and where this actually is
The family's data is the family's
It belongs to them, not to us and not to a school. Where it is stored and processed is set out in full on our data use page. Sharing is theirs to start and theirs to end.
Where your data lives
We do not run advertising and we do not sell family data. Any change to that policy would be published on this site and families told before it took effect.
The book is the part that is finished
The Progress Path, Family Edition is out on 16 November 2026. The app is in private testing with a small group of families. There is no public release yet.
The family does the inviting
A parent chooses whether to invite a professional, what to share, and when to stop.
Explore working with Progress Path
Whether you are a teacher, a SENCO or a parent who would like their school involved, tell us and we will come back to you as this opens further.
Registering interest commits you to nothing, and nothing is shared about any child by filling this in.