Press

Teaching Strategies announced Mike Derezin will serve as the new Chief Executive Officer. Derezin brings over 25 years of experience at the intersection of learning and innovation. Derezin most recently served as the global vice president for LinkedIn Learning, which is one of the world’s largest online platforms for professional learning. Former CEO John Olsen will continue as a member of the company’s Board of Directors.

Teaching Strategies won a 2025 EdTech Digest award in the Curriculum and Instruction category for The Creative Curriculum® for Pre-K, a first-of-its-kind curriculum tailored to meet the needs of young learners, teachers, and families in the critical year before kindergarten. In addition, Teaching Strategies’ products were named finalists in six other award categories.

Teaching Strategies has expanded its suite of literacy-focused solutions to include a supplemental play-based pre-K curriculum aligned to the science of reading; a screener to identify early reading challenges, including dyslexia; and an enhanced comprehensive assessment system that blends game-based and observational assessments to capture a holistic and actionable view of child development over time. The new solutions arrive as new data show just 30% of fourth graders are proficient or advanced in reading, and as states push policies to address declining reading scores.

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.