Teaching Strategies, LLC

Teaching Strategies, LLC develops early childhood education solutions for early learning programmes, spanning curriculum, assessment, professional development and family engagement. The company has operated for more than 45 years and reaches more than 4m children annually across more than 80 countries. Its preschool solutions have been used by Head Start programmes for over 40 years.

The product suite is delivered largely through SmartTeach, a platform that connects teachers, children and families. The Creative Curriculum is a comprehensive early childhood curriculum; GOLD is an observational assessment tool supporting individualised instruction and generated close to 1bn data points in 2025; GOLDFinch extends the assessment offering. ReadyRosie covers family engagement, Tadpoles serves early childhood programmes, and Al's Pals addresses social-emotional learning.

Technical work centres on digital learning platforms, early learning software development, and the analytics behind observational assessment and data-driven personalised instruction. The GOLD dataset is one of the larger corpora of early childhood assessment data in use.

The company describes itself as mission-driven - supporting educators in teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers - and as a results-oriented, innovation-focused team with a work-hard, play-hard culture, focused on building digital products for the early childhood sector.