Tadpoles Parents

Teaching Strategies, LLC

About this app

The Tadpoles Parent app helps you build connections with your child’s teachers and caregivers. Stay connected to the learning that is taking place in your child’s classroom with daily reports, multimedia SEL playlists, engaging activities, and two-way messaging with your child’s teacher.

The Tadpoles Parent app is used by over 2600 programs and 300,000 families to strengthen the connections between school and home.

When a teacher shares a new resource with you, you’ll be notified automatically by your preferred method of communication—email, push notification, or both.

The Tadpoles Parent app allows you to

* seamlessly communicate with your child’s teachers;

* provide daily drop off notes and contactless health screenings;

* receive updates, daily reports, videos, photos, and resources from your child’s teacher that connect to classroom experiences;

* get automatic notifications about new posts by your preferred notification method;

* easily toggle between multiple children;

* facilitate family observations for inclusion in the assessment process whether in-class or remote learning; and

* be assured that all content is private and secure.

Ratings and reviews

I'm coming from a provider that uses the Brightwheel app but, this app has lots of opportunity for improvement.. No calendar for scheduled school closure, No obvious option to message the teacher, No option to submit paperwork, No option to set up auto-pay, Too many steps to download pics and video, No option to update my child's profile pic, etc, etc... The app is super basic and the UI for parents is lackluster. A little more investment in the app features from parents pov would go a long way.

It never loads the daily report the first time opening the app. I always have to close it and reopen. It's annoying. There's also videos that can't be played. Get a video play back error. Another time it showed me a different daily report day after minimizing it. It's just a bad app!

2022- No where to send a message. The app I downloaded doesn't have all the menu buttons at the bottom (as shown on this app listing). Useless and frustrating. Update: the tech team reached out to me & said it would all work after our first check-in at the daycare. It completely did not work for half of the parents. 6 months in, and still half the buttons missing at the bottom. Also, the "daily report" takes 3-4 minutes to refresh. One of the worst apps I've ever used. 2024 - still the same!

What’s new

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.

Based on feedback from families, this new release includes updates that allow users with a Gmail email address to log in without having to go through Google. It also includes accessibility improvements and routine bug fixes.