We believe that all children deserve a nurturing, engaging, and high-quality learning environment designed to support their unique needs throughout the critical, formative years.

At Teaching Strategies, we help early childhood educators build this environment and provide the foundation for success for every child by connecting teachers, children, and families to inspired teaching and learning experiences, informative data, and stronger partnerships through the leading early learning platform and solutions.

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Leadership

Our leadership consists of a diverse group of professionals—each with a passion for supporting educators and helping children become creative and confident lifelong learners.

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15 Million
Children served over the last 10 years
270K+
Classrooms since 2018
90%
of Head Start programs
63%
of the largest districts

Unmatched Innovation

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Today

The ONLY comprehensive connected learning ecosystem for early childhood.

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2020

Launch of the first-of-its-kind Distance Learning Solution for early childhood.

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2019

Addition of the popular, active family engagement system—ReadyRosie.

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2017

Launch of our online IACET accredited professional development library.

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2010

Launch of GOLD- a first-of-its-kind online assessment solution.

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2005

Introduction of the first study-based, developmentally appropriate curriculum.

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1998

After 4 years in development, Teaching Strategies launches The Development Continuum for Ages 3-4—a first-of-its-kind resource to track children’s developmental progress that would become the foundation for GOLD.

first edition of the creative curriculum

1978

Unable to gain the interest of a publisher, founder Diane Dodge self-publishes an early edition of The Creative Curriculum® and her filmstrip, Room Arrangement as a Teaching Strategy—the first products of Teaching Strategies.

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1966

Diane Dodge (founder of Teaching Strategies) becomes the Education Coordinator for a Head Start program in Mississippi. She is tasked with setting up the education program for 900 children and training the program’s teachers.

Diane develops her own curriculum materials and prints them on a mimeograph machine for the teachers in her program.

Our Partners

Teaching Strategies partners with innovative, mission-driven organizations that share our deep commitment to early learning and education. Our partnerships allow us to enhance and expand the scope and quality of our connected ecosystem to positively impact outcomes for children everywhere.

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Careers

At Teaching Strategies, the work we do together has a wide-reaching impact. By empowering and inspiring early childhood educators and providing them with the support they need, we’re improving the quality of education for young children everywhere and helping them to become lifelong creative and confident thinkers.

Join us and help change the future of early childhood education.

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Teaching Strategies Cares

Teaching Strategies Cares (TS Cares) is a voluntary, employee-led group creating community service opportunities for our employees. Past events include coat drives, book drives, food drives, as well as outfitting select private childcare facilities with free curriculum resources.

TS Cares is focused on impacting children and families in our local communities by providing them with some of the necessary resources to be successful in life.

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Teaching Strategies has been named a finalist for the SIIA Education Technology for 2023 CODiE Awards in two categories: the Best PreK / Early Childhood Learning Solution category and Best EdTech Company to Watch.
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This week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Education Chancellor David C. Banks launched “New York City Reads,” a major citywide campaign to declare literacy and reading instruction as the core focus and overriding priority of New York City’s public schools. As part of the broad effort, starting in the 2023-2024 school year, all New York City public school early childhood programs will adopt and implement key Teaching Strategies solutions, including The Creative Curriculum and GOLD.
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Teaching Strategies has won EdTech Digest’s “EdTech Cool Tool Award” for The Creative Curriculum, its research-based, whole-child curriculum that serves children from infancy through kindergarten. Teaching Strategies was also named a finalist in seven award categories, spanning company leadership to assessment to credentialing.
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