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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.

The Pillars Christian Learning Centers, a Texas-based private child care program that provides faith-focused academic excellence to families, announced it is partnering with Teaching Strategies to ensure high-quality early childhood education in 80 classrooms, serving about 1,300 children birth through age 5. The partnership will give all early childhood educators within The Pillars network access to a connected ecosystem of research-based tools and resources designed to support high-quality, developmentally appropriate classroom instruction tailored to the children they serve; to engage families in their child's learning directly connected to the classroom experiences; and to grow in their profession no matter their level of experience.

Teaching Strategies has unveiled a first-of-its-kind curriculum tailored specifically to California’s expanding universal transitional kindergarten program, which aims to build a bridge from preschool to kindergarten for close to 3 million children under the age of 5. The new curriculum, built in close partnership with California educators, builds on Teaching Strategies’ widely-recognized Creative Curriculum but is aligned to California’s early learning guidelines. The curriculum is paired with observational assessments that measure how well children are mastering academic and social skills, professional development for educators, and tools to keep families engaged in their child’s learning–all in one, easy-to-use digital platform.

North Carolina is making it easier for aspiring and current early childhood teachers to get classroom experience and college credit to meet the state’s growing child care needs. Among other offerings, the state recently announced anyone working in a licensed child care program is eligible to enroll in free coursework to earn a Child Development Associate®️ (CDA) certificate through Teaching Strategies’ Professional Development Teacher Membership.

The New York City Department of Education is expanding its partnership with Teaching Strategies as part of a citywide campaign to dramatically strengthen literacy. Starting in the 2023-2024 school year, educators in the city’s more than 8,000 early childhood classrooms, which serve about 140,000 children birth to age 5, will all utilize the Teaching Strategies ecosystem.

Teaching Strategies has been named a 2023 Top Workplace for the second time.

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.

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.

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.