The SmartTeach® 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®, The Creative Curriculum® Cloud, Kickstart LiteracyTM, and Tadpoles®. 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®*
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.
This is a easy and awesome app to track your notes and to submit them to teaching strategies gold,
Too Many Kinks
TaraACa
This app has so much potential… My district made the teachers switch from dojo to this and no one is happy. First off on dojo, esl families can translate messages and vice versa. This app gives no translation support. You can’t even copy and paste messages to put into Google Translate. You have to click “use as documentation” and open that- only then can you highlight it to copy. Second, you can’t see which families have viewed your messages like you could with dojo. This makes it harder to know if a family has seen what you posted or not. Third, you can’t delete messages in the app. Not only that it is so visually unappealing and boring. Whoever designed this tried to quickly get it made and took in no user friendly consideration. I wish we could use dojo again.
Developer Response
Hello, thank you for sharing your thoughts. We are sorry to hear how frustrated you are with messaging in the app. Please know that in-app translation is high on our list of priorities for future improvements. In the meantime, if you copy a message prior to sending it, you could then paste it into a translation service. We had not enabled copy and paste once a message is sent due to privacy concerns. We have made a note of your other suggestions and will take them into consideration, as we are constantly looking for ways to improve the experience for our users. If you have any further issues, please contact our support team.
Frustrated
Tanjam10
I wanted to love this app so much. After switching from Brightwheel, I was so excited to streamline everything. It’s just been one technical glitch after another. My teachers are frustrated, parents are frustrated, I’m frustrated. Any technical issues are met with a request to submit a tech ticket and it takes weeks to resolve, or they tell me to delete and reinstall the program. I can’t do that every single day! Please don’t market this product until it’s ready and free of the amount of bugs it still has. We paid A LOT of money for this product and I honestly wish we hadn’t switched.
Not user friendly
Tyguy4756
Not super user friendly. I wish there was more consideration/input from actual daily users. You should be able to select more than one piece of documentation at a time and apply the same objectives. You should be able to select more than one photo from “my media” at a time and delete them. So many little things point to it being designed by someone who doesn’t actually use it.
Developer Response
Hi there, thank you for taking the time to leave a review! We're sorry to hear you're encountering usability issues with the app. We're continually looking for ways to improve the experience, so I noted your suggestion for bulk-editing documentation on our backlog to explore further! In the meantime, it is possible to multi-select photos. In My Media, you can hold any of the images and it will open multi-select so you can select as many as you like. The action menu will also open so you can delete them, add them to documentation, etc. Let us know if you run into more issues, we're happy to help. Thanks again!
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.
Version 4.3.0
The developer, Teaching Strategies, LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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