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Tadpoles
by Tadpoles
What Tadpoles is
Tadpoles is a child care center management platform that connects educators, families, and daily center operations. Centers can send family updates with photos, videos, and routine details, while secure two-way messaging links families, teachers, and administrators. Operational tools cover enrollment, attendance, transitions, child and teacher locations, classroom ratios, and custom billing and payment plans. Health screening features support sharing health information between families and teachers. Tadpoles integrates with GOLD so teachers can gather formative assessment data in the app used for classroom management and family communication. The service runs on Android, iOS, and the web, with parent apps listed for iPhone, iPad, and Android. Teaching Strategies says personal data is encrypted with TLS in transit and AES at rest, held in monitored continental U.S. data centers, and used for authorized educational purposes rather than advertising or sale. Pricing is by request; there is no free plan, but a free-trial signup is offered.
Who it suits
It suits child care centers, early childhood educators, and families needing shared communication and operational tools. Centers needing enrollment, attendance, billing, health, and assessment functions can use the same platform.
What it does well
- Daily reports support photos and routine updates
- Secure two-way family messaging
- Enrollment, attendance, and billing tools
- Health screening supports information sharing
- Android, iOS, and web availability
What to know first
- Pricing is available only on request
- No free plan
- Personal data is hosted in continental U.S. data centers
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Tadpoles | Pricing by request | On request |
As teachingstrategies.com lists them, read 11 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Verdict
Tadpoles combines family communication with child care administration, health screening, billing, and assessment integration. Its mobile and web availability suits connected center operations, while pricing requires contacting the maker.
Facts from Tadpoles's own pages
- Assessment integration
- Tadpoles integrates with GOLD so teachers can gather formative assessment data in the app used for classroom management and family communication. · teachingstrategies.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Attendance and check-in
- Yes · teachingstrategies.com, 20 Sept 2026
- Audience
- Teaching Strategies describes its work as serving early childhood educators, children, and families. · teachingstrategies.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Billing and payments
- Yes · teachingstrategies.com, 20 Sept 2026
- Data hosting
- The privacy notice says personal data is held in monitored data centers in the continental United States, and the sub-processor list identifies Google Cloud Services as Tadpoles hosting. · teachingstrategies.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Enrollment management
- Yes · teachingstrategies.com, 20 Sept 2026
- Family communication
- Yes · teachingstrategies.com, 20 Sept 2026
- Family updates
- It lets centers send daily reports with photos, videos, and updates about children’s routines. · teachingstrategies.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 1978 · teachingstrategies.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Free plan
- No · teachingstrategies.com, 20 Sept 2026
- Headquarters
- Washington, DC, United States · teachingstrategies.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Health
- The product includes health screening features for sharing health information between families and teachers. · teachingstrategies.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Lesson planning
- Yes · teachingstrategies.com, 20 Sept 2026
- Messaging
- The product supports secure two-way messaging between families, teachers, and administrators. · teachingstrategies.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Mobile apps
- both · teachingstrategies.com, 20 Sept 2026
- Operations
- Features include tracking attendance and transitions, child and teacher locations, classroom ratios, enrollment, and custom billing and payment plans. · teachingstrategies.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Platform apps
- The maker’s Tadpoles Parent app is listed for iPhone and iPad, and Google Play lists Tadpoles Parents for Android. · apps.apple.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy and encryption
- Teaching Strategies says it uses TLS encryption in transit and AES encryption at rest for personal data collected through its services. · family.teachingstrategies.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy limits
- The privacy notice says data is used for authorized educational purposes and is not shared for advertising or sold or distributed. · family.teachingstrategies.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Tadpoles is a child care center management solution for connecting educators and families and streamlining center operations. · teachingstrategies.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The Google Play app listing provides support by phone at +1 800-637-3652 and email at [email protected]. · play.google.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Trial
- The product page links to a free-trial signup, but the opened pages do not state a trial duration. · teachingstrategies.com, 11 Oct 2026
Where Tadpoles stands on Freedom251
- Early Childhood Education Software#27 of 86