Seesaw, the beloved PreK-5 educational platform, is designed to inspire students and cultivate strong relationships between teachers and administrators. Specifically crafted to meet the unique needs of elementary classrooms, Seesaw integrates high-quality instruction, authentic assessments that provide deep learning insights, and inclusive communication into one seamless platform. This allows students to showcase their thinking, share their learning, ideas, and creativity with their teachers and families.
Trusted by over 10 million teachers, students, and families in more than a third of elementary schools across the US, Seesaw's reach extends globally, being utilized in over 130 countries. Teachers have overwhelmingly endorsed Seesaw, with 92% of 1000 surveyed teachers stating that it significantly simplifies their professional lives.
Seesaw's effectiveness is backed by rigorous educational research and has earned the validation of LearnPlatform as an evidence-based intervention, qualifying for ESSA Federal Funding under Tier IV designation. Moreover, it has been awarded the ISTE Seal of Alignment, ensuring that its use aligns with learning science research and practitioner experience to facilitate high-impact, sustainable, scalable, and equitable learning experiences for all learners.
High Quality Instruction
- Empower teachers to deliver high-quality, standards-aligned instruction that promotes student voice and choice.
- Utilize multimodal tools such as video, voice, screen recording, photos, drawing, and labeling to make learning accessible and engaging.
- Facilitate front-of-class modeling, whole class instruction, and discussions with Present to Class mode.
- Easily assign activities to all students for center/stations work or whole class independent work, using student groups to differentiate assignments.
- Access over 1600 research-based, ready-to-teach lessons from Seesaw's curriculum experts, complete with whole group instruction videos, 1:1 or small group practice activities, and formative assessments, supported by robust lesson plans.
- Explore more than 100,000 ready-to-assign activities created by our community of educators and 1600+ scaffolded lessons.
Inclusive Family Engagement
- Foster family engagement as partners in the learning process through two-way communication via portfolios and messages.
- Offer a transparent view into the classroom and insight into student progress through frequent sharing of student posts and assignments.
- Utilize robust messaging with built-in translation into over 100 languages.
- Send Progress Reports to keep families informed about their child's development.
Digital Portfolios
- Capture and showcase student growth through digital portfolios that document learning both within and outside of Seesaw.
- Organize student work efficiently by folder and skill.
- Streamline parent-teacher conferences and the creation of report cards.
Assessment to Support Data-Driven Decisions
- Regularly assess student learning to gain valuable insights into their understanding and inform instructional decisions.
- Use formative assessments with auto-graded questions to obtain detailed and actionable reporting.
- Link skills and standards to activities for straightforward progress monitoring of key learning objectives.
Accessible and Differentiated Learning
- Support developmentally appropriate, accessible, and differentiated instruction to engage all learners.
Seesaw prioritizes data privacy and security, adhering to COPPA, FERPA, and GDPR compliance standards. For more information on our privacy practices, visit web.seesaw.me/privacy.
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