SmartTeach4.8.0 - App Store

The SmartTeach(R) app by Teaching Strategies offers early childhood educators an easy and efficient way to quickly complete essential daily tasks on the fly, online, or offline. The SmartTeach app simplifies teaching, documentation, classroom management, and family engagement throughout the day, enabling teachers to make the most of every moment with easy-to-use tools right at their fingertips.

The SmartTeach app is accessible to Teachers and Administrators using Teaching Strategies products such as GOLD(R), The Creative Curriculum(R) Cloud, Kickstart LiteracyTM, and Tadpoles(R). Download SmartTeach by Teaching Strategies to access our new and improved features & functionality.

SmartTeach offers early childhood educators a single app to support all essential classroom tasks, including:

Create documentation and share insights with families

View and teach directly from your daily schedule, curriculum, activities, and care routines

Communicate with families

Save & share photos, videos, and other media across devices

View & assess from resources like Intentional Teaching Experiences, Skill Development Cards, and Mighty Minutes(R)*

Identify Infant and Toddler children’s developmental level with the Entry Screener to dynamically populate individualized support for each child*

Take attendance, move children or staff, and complete name-to-face checks*

Track care routines and share Daily Reports with families*

Conduct health screenings for children and/or staff*
*Feature availability is dependent on which Teaching Strategies products your classroom licenses.

Version History This release makes it easier to capture, document, and share learning. New media workflows let educators quickly share photos with families or create documentation. Tadpoles® users also gain improved meal tracking, dedicated allergy and dietary notes, and faster Daily Report experiences. Additional fixes improve app performance and reliability. 4.8.0 6d ago As part of routine maintenance, Teaching Strategies regularly updates our mobile apps to ensure we are delivering products that meet the needs of our customers. This release addresses bug fixes related to missing Guardian data from attendance records. 4.7.1 Sep 8 This release introduces 25 new Spanish language Intentional Teaching Experiences. Tadpoles® users can now access Quick Share from non-classroom spaces and can work in classrooms they aren’t assigned to, when an Admin has enabled that classroom setting. Additional fixes improve overall app performance and reliability. 4.7.0 Aug 17 As part of routine maintenance, Teaching Strategies regularly updates our mobile apps to ensure we are delivering products that meet the needs of our customers. This release addresses bug fixes related to media captures and app performance. 4.6.1 Jul 17 This release introduces aligned learning standards within Documentation, allowing educators to view all additional learning standards enabled by their childcare center directly from Documentation when available. Tadpoles® users can now access Quick Share—a faster way to share media and notes to child portfolios, Daily Reports, and family emails, along with support for internal Daily Health Checks and a secure Kiosk Mode experience for family PIN code check-in and staff clock-in/out on shared devices. Additional fixes improve overall app performance and reliability. 4.6.0 Jun 30 This release introduces a faster, clearer SmartTeach experience for Tadpoles users with enhancements to daily workflows: an expanded roster view with larger child photos for quicker identification while tracking care routines, and new Incident Reports to quickly document incidents in the app, capture key details, and share with the child’s portfolio. Additional fixes improve messaging, documentation, media sharing, and overall app reliability. 4.5.0 May 18 This update makes SmartTeach faster, clearer, and easier to use throughout the day. Teachers and administrators can now select an Expanded Roster view with larger child photos for quicker identification and sort the Roster by first name, last name, age, classroom, or homeroom in ascending or descending order to find children faster—especially during busy drop-off and pick-up times. For Tadpoles users, taking attendance is now streamlined with fewer taps, clearer language, and smarter default views to save time. Toilet-training documentation is simpler with the ability to record Toilet and Diaper checks together in one Daily Report entry. Documentation sharing with families is now fully aligned with the web and MyTeachingStrategies experience, and additional bug fixes improve messaging, documentation, media sharing, and overall app reliability. 4.4.0 Apr 21 For Tadpoles® users, Health Screenings are now available directly in the SmartTeach® mobile app! This release also introduces an adjustment to the staff “Move” attendance feature, and includes key UX and performance improvements. These updates help streamline classroom management, strengthen health and safety workflows, and enhance communication with families. 4.3.0 Mar 5 As part of routine maintenance, Teaching Strategies regularly updates our mobile apps to ensure we are delivering products that meet the needs of our customers. This new release includes routine bug fixes. 4.2.4 Feb 19 All SmartTeach® mobile app users can now share documentation with families directly from the app, benefit from improvements to messaging and documentation, and experience smoother performance thanks to bug fixes and overall enhancements.

Teachers and administrators using Tadpoles® and GOLD® can now share documentation to Daily Reports and directly with families, attach media only to student portfolios, and track pending media approvals. They can also track and submit medication records and other essential classroom data in the app, making classroom management more efficient and organized.

Customers with Creative Cloud for Preschool will have access to new Curriculum content. 4.2.2 Jan 26 All teachers and administrators using the SmartTeach® mobile app now have shared access to classroom media, the ability to update child profile photos, and other minor improvements.

Teachers and administrators using the SmartTeach mobile app with Tadpoles® and a GOLD® or Creative Curriculum® Cloud license can now receive Sticky Notes reminders and attach announcements, edit activities, and view activity objectives and dimensions on the Daily Report.

Teachers using Kickstart Literacy™ can now seamlessly assess multiple children for a Skill Development Card in one flow. 4.1 10/17/2025 As part of routine maintenance, Teaching Strategies regularly updates SmartTeach to ensure we are delivering products that meet the needs of our customers. This version includes a bug fix related to login errors. 4.0.2 07/31/2025 As part of routine maintenance, Teaching Strategies regularly updates SmartTeach to ensure we are delivering products that meet the needs of our customers. This version includes a bug fix related to admin access. 4.0.1 07/17/2025 New for back to school 2025, the Teaching Strategies Teacher app has been rebranded to SmartTeach®.

- Administrators are now able to log in to the SmartTeach® app and access all the same features and capabilities as a primary teacher.
- Teachers and administrators using both SmartTeach and Tadpoles will now be able to use the SmartTeach app for taking attendance, tracking care routines and editing and sharing daily reports.
- The SmartTeach app will now support Classlink single sign-on in addition to Clever. 4.0 07/07/2025 As part of routine maintenance, Teaching Strategies regularly updates Teaching Strategies Teacher to ensure we are delivering products that meet the needs of our customers. This version includes bug fixes related to loading family messages and care routines for two-year olds. 3.2.5 05/20/2025 As part of routine maintenance, Teaching Strategies regularly updates Teaching Strategies Teacher to ensure we are delivering products that meet the needs of our customers. This version includes bug fixes related to the ability for Team Members to log in to the app. 3.2.3 02/27/2025 This build includes minor bug fixes. 3.2.2 02/05/2025 This build includes minor bug fixes. 3.2.1 01/07/2025 Teachers with mixed-age classrooms who have The Creative Curriculum® for Infants, Toddlers and Twos can now access the Entry Screener and Individualized Child Plan recommendations.

The Creative Curriculum® Cloud users can now assess children directly while facilitating a Mighty Minutes or Intentional Teaching Experience Resource Card experience.

As routine maintenance, this build also includes minor enhancements and bug fixes. 3.2.0 12/17/2024 Teachers using Teaching Strategies GOLD® can now easily edit documentation dates to ensure accuracy.

For Teachers of Infant & Toddler classes using The Creative Curriculum® for Infants or The Creative Curriculum® for Toddlers, the following new features will be available:

Receive reminders for follow-up screenings at key milestones, aiding in progress monitoring and supporting the individualization process.

Access Mighty Minutes® or Intentional Teaching Experiences added as “Other Experiences” to the Individualized Child Plan to make individualization on the fly easy.

As part of routine maintenance, this build also includes other minor feature enhancements and bug fixes. 3.1.0 11/05/2024 For Infant & Toddler classes using the Creative Curriculum for Infants or the Creative Curriculum for Toddlers, the following new features will be available:
- Entry screener helps teachers identify where each child is developmentally.
- Entry Screener results feed Individualized Child Plans with specific Skill Development Cards based on what each child is working on “next.”
- Skill Development Cards offer support for foundational skills enabling more discrete observations during this period of rapid growth.
- Ongoing guided assessment questions after each Skill Development Card automatically feed preliminary levels in GOLD.
- Access our all-new Creative Curriculum for Infants & the Creative Curriculum for Toddlers for distinct age-targeted curriculum focused exclusively on infant and toddler development.
- Access Care Routine engagement strategies from My Day. Plan weekly care routines for children in Infant, Toddlers, and Twos Classrooms in Teach and see them in the app. 3.0.0 09/10/2024 My Day is now available on your mobile device! TS Teacher now provides access to your daily plans and activities, including Mighty Minutes and Intentional Teaching Experiences. As a GOLD customer, you can easily assess students directly from a Mighty Minute or ITE.

View the profiles for each student and the contact information for family members from your mobile app.

Access your Caseload on TS Teacher. Teachers and Team Members can now access and create documentation for students within their caseloads.

As part of routine maintenance, this build includes other minor feature enhancements and bug fixes. 2.0.0 06/14/2024 As part of routine maintenance, Teaching Strategies regularly updates Teaching Strategies Teacher to ensure we are delivering products that meet the needs of our customers. This build fixes a critical bug blocking some teachers from uploading media and documentation. 1.3.2 03/12/2024 As part of routine maintenance, Teaching Strategies regularly updates Teaching Strategies Teacher to ensure we are delivering products that meet the needs of our customers.

Teachers will now receive clear notifications when discarding work in progress and when data syncing with the Teaching Strategies servers is in progress. 1.3.1 02/15/2024 As part of routine maintenance, Teaching Strategies regularly updates Teaching Strategies Teacher to ensure we are delivering products that meet the needs of our customers.

Teachers will now receive clear notifications when discarding work in progress and when data syncing with the Teaching Strategies servers is in progress. 1.3.0 02/13/2024