Understanding child development tracking

What it's for

Child development tracking helps you follow how each child is growing across areas like language, motor skills and social development. It gives families a clear, evidence-based picture of their child's progress — one of the things that sets a quality center apart.

Where to find it

The Learning and Development group in the menu, which includes Development, Observations and Portfolio.

How the pieces fit together

• Development — a big-picture view of every child's progress across developmental

domains (like Language & Literacy or Motor Skills), based on a learning framework.

• Observations — the individual moments you record about a child, each tied to a

milestone and a mastery level. Observations are what build up the development picture.

• Portfolio — a collection of a child's work and highlights over time, to share

with families.

• Learning frameworks — the set of domains and milestones everything is measured

against. You choose the framework that fits your center.

Tips & limits

• These are part of Skooly's Learning and Development (PRO) features.
• Start by choosing your framework (see *How to set up learning frameworks*), then

record observations, which feed the development view and each child's portfolio.

Related articles

• How to track development milestones
• How to record an observation
• How to set up learning frameworks