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Teaching Strategies has been named to the GSV 150 list for the fifth year in a row. The list honors the top 150 private companies transforming digital learning and workforce skills. Teaching Strategies is one of just six early childhood education companies on the 2025 list.

Teaching Strategies has launched a first-of-its-kind curriculum tailored to meet the needs of young learners, teachers, and families in the critical year before kindergarten. The Creative Curriculum for Pre-K leverages a whole-child approach that combines learning through hands-on, play-based studies with daily, explicit, and focused reading and math instruction to ensure students build the fundamental skills and experiences that will set them up for long-term academic success.

Teaching Strategies launches new self-paced, online certification program to prepare early childhood educators to incorporate research from the science of reading into their everyday practices. The Early Literacy Certification: Foundations of the Science of Reading will uniquely support early educators to build key literacy and language development skills.

Teaching Strategies, based in Bethesda, Maryland, said the deal will allow the company to add Cognitive ToyBox’s platform into Teaching Strategies’ current assessment system, GOLD, which is based on teacher-recorded observations.

Teaching Strategies has acquired Cognitive ToyBox, a research-driven assessment platform that has developed five-minute per week, game-based assessments designed to capture developmental progress directly from children. The acquisition enables Teaching Strategies to integrate game-based student assessments directly into GOLD for an enhanced comprehensive assessment solution that provides a unified, holistic view of student readiness and progress in the early years.

Teaching Strategies will soon launch a ground-breaking new product combining curriculum and assessment to more effectively support the unique needs of children during the critical time from birth to age 2. It includes an entry screener, guided assessment, and auto-generated individualized child plans that give educators daily specific guidance for supporting the development of the youngest learners.

Teaching Strategies has been named one of The Washington Post’s 2024 Top Workplaces in the Washington, D.C. area. This marks the third time the company has earned a spot on the annual list in recent years.

Teaching Strategies' Professional Development Teacher Membership has been named "Professional Development Solution of the Year" in the 6th Annual EdTech Breakthrough Awards. The annual awards honor excellence and recognize innovation, hard work and success across the educational technology space.

Teaching Strategies surveyed 2,200 early childhood educators to gain insights on workforce conditions and trending topics like science of reading. Among the key findings, only 28% of early childhood educators said they feel "very prepared" to teach early literacy, and 39% of early childhood educators are "not familiar at all" with the science of reading. Respondents seek more resources, training, and family engagement to build early literacy skills in young learners.

Teaching Strategies has been named a finalist for two 2024 SIIA CODiE Awards, which honor the best products, services and people in the education and business technology industries. Teaching Strategies’ connected ecosystem of solutions was recognized in the “Best PK/Early Childhood Solution” award category, and its Professional Development Teacher Membership was recognized in the “Best Education Professional Development Solution” award category. Winners will be announced in May 2024.

Teaching Strategies, the country's leading developer of early childhood curriculum, assessment, professional learning, and family engagement solutions, has been named to the GSV 150, an annual list of the top 150 private companies transforming digital learning and workforce skills, for the fourth year in a row.

This article spotlights the NYC Department of Education’s LYFE program, which provides free early childhood education and support to children of student parents enrolled in the public school system. But the program is more than just a safe environment for kids to play while their student parents learn; it offers high-quality education, even to infants, with no income restrictions. The program utilizes Teaching Strategies’ connected ecosystem, including curriculum, assessment, family engagement and professional development solutions. The strong, long-standing partnership between LYFE and Teaching Strategies, in part, paved a path to an expanded partnership to support all public early childhood education classrooms across the city.