Title III Funding & Seesaw English Language Development

What is Title III, Part A?

Title III, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as reauthorized under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), aims to ensure that English learners (ELs) and immigrant students attain English proficiency and develop high levels of academic achievement in English.

How Seesaw Supports

Aligned to the Title III funding objectives, Seesaw ELD offers tailored and effective diverse, culturally-responsive lesson plans that foster inclusivity and equity in language education. With multimodal tools catering to different learning styles, Seesaw enhances engagement and comprehension for multilingual learners. Our adherence to the WIDA framework ensures effective language development standards, supporting ongoing proficiency growth. These features enable educators to deliver targeted instruction, making our product a valuable investment for academic success and linguistic development under Title III funding.

Title III Required Activities

Instruction

Providing effective language instruction education programs that meet the needs of English Learners and demonstrate success in increasing English Language Proficiency and student academic achievement.

Professional Development

Improves teaching for ELs through intensive training to enhance curriculum, assessment, and instructional strategies while boosting teachers’ skills and English proficiency.

Family Engagement

Enhancing language instruction programs for ELs includes effective activities like parent, family, and community engagement, alongside coordinating related programs.

How Seesaw ELD Supports

• Students practice reading, writing, listening and speaking English

• Over 480 ELA, Math, Science, & Social Studies lessons

• 3 Levels of Language Acquisition per Lesson

• Multimodal tools provide a safe spaced to learn, practice, & build confidence while honoring their strengths and experiences

• Culturally responsive instruction

• Professional Learning with Seesaw with sessions tailored to teacher experience level and content

• Deepening knowledge of all the tools, resources, and curriculum Seesaw provides to support Multilingual Learners

• Two way communication keeps families in the loop by providing continuous visibility into their child’s learning experience to support and celebrate their learning

• All text can be translated into over 100+ languages to enable families to participate in their child’s learning

Title III Funding & Seesaw’s English Language Development

Seesaw ELD

Exclusive Supplemental K-5 English Language Development Program.

Rapid language acquisition with engaging, powerful lessons with multimodal tools that allow English learners to excel in academic content with confidence.

Seesaw ELD provides multilingual students engaging, scaffolded lessons to practice reading, writing, listening, and speaking English in the context of 480+ ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies lessons.

• Grade-level appropriate lessons can be flexibly implemented in a variety of ELD models

• Aligned with WIDA and ELD state standards and frameworks, and developed with language & content experts

• Students develop an understanding of content and language concurrently, with academic content as a context for language learning

Seesaw ELD Case Study

Before the official launch of Seesaw ELD in July 2024, Seesaw conducted a pilot study across 5 United States elementary schools in California and Wisconsin. Students who participated in the study spoke Spanish, Tagalog, Hindi, or Punjabi as their primary languages at home. The study included teacher pre- and postlesson surveys, an in-class observation, student pre- and post-assessments, and a teacher post-study interview.

The results of the pilot study on Seesaw ELD indicate that:

• Teachers and students liked the lessons and found them engaging.

• Teachers embraced the instructional design of the lessons and extended the activities to provide more practice on the vocabulary and sentence structures, and to introduce additional vocabulary.

• Students’ engagement was demonstrated by their high performance on the student work for each lesson.

• The ELD lessons in the pilot study were effective in teaching students common vocabulary words based on the improvement in vocabulary from the pre- to post-assessment.

ELD Research & WIDA Framework

Follows the WIDA framework & developed with language content experts:

• Dr. Kia McDaniel

• Dr. Adria Klein

• Dr. Ebony Shockley

• Dr. Tamar Posner

Seesaw integrates English language development seamlessly into content.

Seesaw sets itself apart with its awardwinning multimodal tools, ensuring alignment with the latest research and developmental appropriateness for elementary education.

100% of teachers said that they would recommend Seesaw ELD lessons to other teachers with multilingual students

Students’ average correct across all activities and formative assessments contained in the lessons