Teaching Strategies Wins National EdTech Award for Pre-K Curriculum that Pairs Play with Explicit Math and Literacy Instruction

EdTech Digest's EdTech Awards recognize company's leadership and entire ecosystem of early childhood education solutions in annual awards program celebrating contributions to transformative education technology

WASHINGTON, April 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Teaching Strategies, the country's leading developer of early childhood curriculum, assessment, professional learning, and family engagement solutions, has won EdTech Digest's "EdTech Cool Tool Award" 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.

The Creative Curriculum for Pre-K, which earned the top honor in the "curriculum and instruction solution," 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. It is rooted in decades of research on developmentally appropriate practices in learning and informed by over 45 years of insights from early childhood educators.

Teaching Strategies was also named a finalist in six other award categories, spanning testing and assessment to badging and credentialing to professional development to reading and literacy.

"It's an honor to be recognized by EdTech Digest for our leadership in the sector and for our ongoing commitment to offer children, educators, and families the most innovative, timely solutions," said Celia Stokes, president of product at Teaching Strategies. "We're especially excited to take home the top prize for our new pre-K curriculum. On the heels of new national data that show students are still scoring below pre-pandemic levels in reading and math, it's more important than ever to build a strong foundation for academic success before students enter kindergarten. Our solutions do just that."

Established in 2010, The EdTech Awards recognize, acknowledge, and celebrate the most exceptional innovators, leaders, and trendsetters in education technology with three main honors: the EdTech Cool Tool Awards, the EdTech Leadership Awards, and the EdTech Trendsetter Awards.

In addition to its win for the Creative Curriculum for Pre-K, Teaching Strategies was named a finalist in six "Cool Tool Awards" categories. The products recognized as finalists include the Early Literacy Certification: Foundations of the Science of Reading^™; Professional Development Teacher Membership; GOLD^® observational assessment; and The Creative Curriculum^® for Infants and The Creative Curriculum^® for Toddlers. The full ecosystem of solutions was also honored.

Access a full list of winners and finalists for the awards.

This year's finalists and winners were narrowed from the larger field and judged based on various criteria, including: pedagogical workability, efficacy and results, support, clarity, value and potential. 

"Congratulations to The EdTech Awards 2025 finalists and winners! The future of learning is being shaped right now, and those we honor here are leading the way," said Victor Rivero, who as Editor-in-Chief of EdTech Digest, oversees the program. "If there's one field ready to embrace and lead through change, it's this one."

About Teaching Strategies
Teaching Strategies^® is the leading provider of early childhood curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement solutions. Its products, including the most widely used curriculum and assessment solutions, The Creative Curriculum^® and GOLD^®, are found in over 240,000 classrooms and more than 80 countries around the world and reach over 4 million children each year. A trusted partner and advocate for the early education community for 45 years, today Teaching Strategies connects teachers, children and families to inspired teaching and learning experiences, insightful data, stronger family partnerships, and robust professional learning through SmartTeach^™, the leading early learning platform. Learn more at www.teachingstrategies.com.

About EdTech Digest and EdTech Awards
EdTech Digest, a leading source of cool tools, interviews, and trends showcasing the future of learning — annually honors the best and brightest people, products and groups working in edtech with The EdTech Awards. Cool Tool, Leadership, and Trendsetter honorees span the K-12, Higher Ed, and Skills & Workforce sectors.

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