# Teaching Strategies Family

> For Parents and Caregivers

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1237797232](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1237797232)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1237797232`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Teaching Strategies, LLC
- **Category:** Education
- **Rating:** 2.40 / 5 (229 ratings)
- **Version:** 16.7.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-08
- **First published:** 2017-07-15
- **Size:** 70 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-20
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teaching-strategies-family/id1237797232)
- **Website:** [https://teachingstrategies.com/product/gold/](https://teachingstrategies.com/product/gold/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://gold.teachingstrategies.com/pages/goldPrivacyPolicy.cfm](https://gold.teachingstrategies.com/pages/goldPrivacyPolicy.cfm)

## Description

The Teaching Strategies Family App helps parents and caregivers build strong connections with teachers through clear two-way communication, multimedia playlists, and secure sharing of classroom resources. Stay informed about your child's learning and engage with activities that align with in-class instruction. The platform is trusted by over 2,600 programs and 330,000 families.

Highlights include automatic notifications by email or push, easy toggling between multiple children, and family observations for classroom or remote assessments. Explore The Creative Curriculum Cloud's Digital Children's Library (over 200 eBooks in English and Spanish) and the ReadyRosie Video Library, with private and secure content for preschool and kindergarten classrooms.

## Rankings

- #127,195 — Overall

## Review summary

Users repeatedly struggle with reliability: messages and updates either don’t load or appear as blank screens even though notifications come through. The app often requires reinstalling, crashes or closes shortly after opening, and is hard to use for managing multiple children or schools. The core feature—parent–teacher messaging and daily updates—has potential, but persistent UX, performance, and content-loading issues make the app feel unreliable and frustrating.

### Pros

- Centralized channel for parent–teacher communication and updates.
- Push notifications alerting you to new notes, messages, or updates.
- Designed to deliver notes and photos about your child’s day in one place.
- Potentially a great resource for real-time updates when it works.

### Cons

- Messages and updates don’t appear in the app despite notifications; blank screens or no visible content.
- Frequent instability requiring uninstall/reinstall to access messages.
- App crashes or closes unexpectedly and freezes, especially after updates.
- Poor UX/navigation, especially when switching between multiple children or schools; not intuitive.
- Missing or inconvenient features (no timestamps, limited photo viewing, slow/laggy updates).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1237797232)