Toddle - Your Teaching Partner

Toddle is a teaching and learning platform for K-12 schools - the software layer that sits under a classroom's daily work. Where most schools stitch together a planning document here, a gradebook there, a portfolio tool, a parent-messaging app and a spreadsheet for attendance, Toddle folds all of it into one system. A unit plan a teacher writes on Monday feeds the assessment on Friday, which feeds the student's portfolio, which feeds the term report. Information is entered once and travels.

The company calls itself "teacher-built, AI-first, more than an LMS," and the order of those words matters. Toddle began in 2019 not as a technology idea but as a practical one: five founders who had already run a network of international preschools and worked inside K-12 schools built the tool they wished they had. It started as a passion project inside an IB world school before it was ever a product.

That origin shapes the whole thing. The modules - curriculum planning, assessments and gradebook, student portfolios, progress reports and transcripts, a family communications hub, class operations, behaviour management and accreditation - map to the real rhythm of a school year rather than to a software org chart. Toddle says it is the only platform that brings the entire teaching-and-learning journey, from curriculum planning to reporting, into a single continuous workflow.

Then there is the AI. Rather than bolt a chatbot onto the side, Toddle placed its AI where teachers said the drudgery lived: drafting rubrics, taking a first pass at grading, writing report-card comments, sparking lesson ideas. The pitch is unglamorous and specific - give each teacher back several hours a week.

Toddle's customers are schools and districts, and inside them a chain of people: teachers, curriculum coordinators, school leaders, students and families. It reaches 2,000+ schools in more than 100 countries, and its deepest roots are in the International Baccalaureate world - more than half of all IB Primary Years Programme schools globally run on Toddle. It also serves Cambridge, English National Curriculum, Australian, American and progressive independent schools.

The problem it solves is quieter than "transform education." It is the tax of fragmentation. A teacher's day is fractured across half a dozen disconnected tools, each demanding the same data re-entered in a slightly different shape. Report-card season becomes evenings and weekends. Toddle's answer is consolidation: 85% of its schools say they dropped three or more separate platforms after adopting it.

For the IB specifically, Toddle carries an official license from the International Baccalaureate to use its copyrighted frameworks, and offers dedicated tooling for PYP, MYP, DP and CP, including dashboards for authorisation and evaluation visits. More than 150 IB schools have completed authorisation using it. Beyond the IB, it is officially licensed to support Understanding by Design through a partnership with the framework's co-creator, Jay McTighe.

The learning-management category is crowded - Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, PowerSchool, Seesaw and, in the IB niche, ManageBac. Most of these solve a slice: content delivery, or rostering, or the gradebook. Toddle's distinction is the connective tissue between slices. It positions itself less as an LMS and more as the single spine running from a curriculum map all the way to a printed transcript, so a school does not have to reconcile data across tools that were never designed to talk.

Its second differentiator is credibility with a specific, demanding audience. Being teacher-built is a claim many make; being adopted by more than half the world's IB PYP schools is evidence. The official IB and UbD licenses give it standing that generic platforms cannot buy.

Its third is where it put the AI. Toddle's AI is aimed at the teacher's workload - grading 80% faster, drafting reports in minutes - not at replacing the teacher. And it draws a hard line on data: it says it never shares school data with large language model providers and never uses it to train them, backed by ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, FERPA and COPPA compliance. In education sales, that line is often the one that closes the deal.