Insightful, Flexible, and Always in Your Hands
Your Trusted AI Partner for Elementary with best-in-class privacy and security on a platform intentionally designed for elementary.
Teach smarter not harder - to reach every learner. Seesaw AI doesn’t just save teachers time, it gives teachers richer, more personal insight into each student - supporting both teacher effectiveness and student growth with real care and connection.
Learning Magic, Less Prep! Seesaw’s Activity Assistant Let’s You:
Turn any existing paper resource into a Seesaw Activity with a few clicks.
Generate activities in seconds by entering a custom prompt.
Expand access - instantly translate text into a student’s preferred language.
Question Assistant
Auto-graded fluency checks to support and track student growth.
Quickly create auto-graded formative assessments with our AI-powered Question Generator, seamlessly integrated into teacher workflows.
Literacy Tools
Guided reading practice with word-by-word highlights help build confidence in early readers.
Pave the way for responsible use of AI with a developmentallyappropriate introduction.
The Seesaw Difference
The real power of AI with Seesaw is that it’s on the Seesaw platform - a place where:
• We give every student a voice in a low stakes environment, fostering confidence & independence.
• Keeps human connection and relationships at the center.
• Teachers gain richer, more personal insight into each student so they can support learning with real care and connection.
• Educators are deeply involved in all aspects of time-saving AI - with the power to override and adjust.
Time-Saving AI Tools + The Only Learning Platform Designed for Elementary = Joyful, Connected Learning Experience That Improve Student Outcomes
Seesaw’s AI Features Are:
• Focused on solving real problems for elementary educators, learners, and families
• Seamlessly embedded within the Seesaw platform.
• Created in collaboration with elementary educators and research professionals. Our AI models are trained by real educators at Seesaw.
• Built for pedagogically critical cases, like literacy development.
English Language Development
Developmentally appropriate lessons are designed for flexible instruction and include integrated language supports, making content accessible to English Language Learners at all proficiency levels.
The package includes
• Premade templates
• Lesson plans
• Teacher Guide for implementation
Seesaw Instruction & Insights Supplemental Curriculum Package
Seesaw ELD provides English Language Learners with scaffolded, flexible lessons that go beyond just vocabulary. Lessons frontload the essential academic language and background knowledge they need to participate and excel in academic content conversations.
Lessons follow the WIDA framework and are designed to align directly to K-5 content in ELA, math, science, and social studies, ensuring students build a strong foundation of language skills in the context of meaningful academic content.
Level 1
Entering & Beginning
• Resource Guide to align with your specific content area needs and ELD model
3 Levels of Language Acquisition per Lesson
Level 2
Developing & Expanding
Level 3
Bridging & Reaching
How Seesaw ELD Front-Loads Language to Build Academic Confidence
Step 1: Introduce Key Vocabulary & Concepts
Pre-teach key vocabulary with visuals and clear explanations. Connect new concepts to prior knowledge and background.
Step 2: Practice in a Safe Space
Support students’ practice with modeling, visuals, and graphic organizers that help them process language at their proficiency level.
Step 3: Confidence to Engage with Peers
Through modeling, sentence starters, and guided interaction, English Language Learners gain confidence and skills to participate fully in classroom discussions and group work.
The Seesaw platform is available in Spanish, French, and Portuguese, perfect for dual language programs and supporting newcomers as they develop foundational language skills.
Each subject has 10 base lessons that cover the content area standard, with 3 levels of language acquisition for each lesson.
Math
Grades K-5
Science
Grades K-5
English Language Arts (ELA)
Grades K-5
Social Studies
Grade K-5
Students explore math concepts and build confidence through engaging activities that encourage them to explain their understanding of foundational topics such as numbers, counting, fractions, algebraic thinking, data, and more.
Exploring phenomena across topics in Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science, and Engineering, students investigate scientific questions, make observations, and construct scientific arguments using evidence.
Students engage with narrative and informational texts to practice and apply reading comprehension skills, such as asking and answering questions, making inferences, and comparing and contrasting.
Through inquiry-based activities, students explore culturally relevant topics in economics, geography, government, and history to make connections to real-world experiences and issues.
The Seesaw Difference
Teachers Students Administrators
• Communicate with families in 100+ languages
• Gain real-time insights into student language development through built-in assessments and portfolios
• Create student groups for easy differentiation
• Access multiple ways to model, practice, reflect on, and use new language skills
• Hear themselves, reflect, and identify areas for improvement–promoting self-reflection and agency
We align our pedagogical approach with the WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, SIOP Model, TEKS, and state ELD standards like ELPA21, targeting the four domains of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
• Monitor the progress of their ELD program and quickly pinpoint areas for improvement
• Make data-driven decisions with school and district-level dashboards
Validated by industry-leading third-party LearnPlatform as an evidence-based intervention. Our dedication to inclusivity is exemplified through the awarding of the CAST-UDL through Digital Promise.
Seesaw’s Computer Science curriculum engages every student in foundational computer science concepts, starting in kindergarten. Address core strands in New York’s K-5 Computer Science and Digital Fluency standards on the platform built for student voice and creation.
Computer Science
Seesaw Instruction & Insights Exclusive Collections
Designed for Elementary
Empower young learners with inclusive characters, plugged and unplugged activities, and cross-curricular and reallife connections that inspire every student to see the impact of computer science in their lives.
Powered by the Most Powerful Learning Tools
Pencil and paper only go so far in supporting computer science skills, and other platforms are hard for young learners to use. Seesaw’s multimodal tools amplify fundamental skills at the core of computer science instruction.
Everything Teachers Need to Teach with Confidence
Grab-and-Go Lessons
Fits Every Classroom Throughout the Year
Lessons flex to fit into any instructional day, so they’re simple to integrate into core instruction, specials rotations, or designated computer science blocks with enough content to support Computer Science all year.
Instructional videos, discussion questions, facilitative prompts, practice activities, and assessments
Instructional Resources
Lesson plans, instructional templates, standard-alignments, answer keys, professional development, printable posters, family handouts, and a generative AI question assistant
Inclusive and Relevant Content
Diverse characters and real-life examples provide equal opportunity for all students to engage in computer science
Balance of Plugged & Unplugged Activities
Seesaw tools make it easy for students to capture hands-on learning and add layers of explanation and reflection
K-5 Computer Science Curriculum on Seesaw
Digital Leadership With Bean Grades K-2
The Digital Leaders Grades 3-5
Computational Thinking Grades K-2
Computational Thinking Adventures Grades 3-5
Code the World Grades K-2
Mission Code Grades 3-5
Visual Data Talks Grades K-5
STEAM Grades K-2
STEAM: Design Thinking Grades 3-5
Students jump into Bean’s life and make real-world, hands-on choices that teach them what it takes to be safe, balance screen time, handle cyberbullying, and other critical digital citizenship skills.
In a graphic novel experience, seven diverse superheroes bring students through real-world choices that build leadership skills and teach critical digital citizenship skills.
Applying problem solving to the world around them, students learn the concepts of decomposition, abstraction, pattern recognition, and algorithmic thinking in a fun storybook format
Students to explore the world with the Adventure Team to learn the four pillars of computational thinking – cognitive skills are the foundation for problem solving and future learning in computer science.
Through fun narratives and real-world scenarios, students join the Code Crew to collaborate, problem solve, and create engaging projects through plugged and unplugged activities in Scratch and ScratchJr
Students become secret agents and digitally code, problem solve, and explain programming decisions to help robots save planets from impending doom and collect motivating badges along the way.
Follow Hops and friends as they help students interact with interesting data all around them. Students create different types of visual data and engage in short classroom discussions that develop data literacy
Spark curiosity with lessons that get students investigating real-world questions and applying their knowledge.
Students team up with an engineer to solve problems using the design thinking method, complete hands-on challenges, and explore informational texts that build vocabulary and background knowledge.
We have partnered with our friends at Code.org to bring new computer science collections to Seesaw. Students will engage in cross-curricular coding activities and capture their learning on Seesaw with fun computer science Code.org lessons.
The Building Blocks for Student Success Start in Elementary
Seesaw Early Literacy
Seesaw Instruction & Insights Supplemental Curriculum Package
Support foundational reading skills with 600+ engaging, hands-on, PreK-2 lessons that bring joy and student autonomy to an area that can feel repetitive and boring.
Evidence-backed supplemental early literacy curriculum built on the leading elementary learning experience platform that instills confidence and joy.
• Student voice recording promotes reflection and reading fluency
• Flexible student groups unlock easy differentiation
• Lessons address top skills through a balanced literacy approach
• Includes modeling and multiple practice formats
• Utilizes NEW premium tools like Reading Fluency Assessments that automatically analyze student progress on literacy skills
Grounded in the Science of Reading, aligned to Scarborough’s Reading Rope
We use evidence-based approaches to literacy, with intentionally designed, explicitly scaffolded, and differentiated instruction. Aligned to state/national standards and over 30 different curricula.
Explore Seesaw Early Literacy
Alphabet Garden PK-TK
Alphabet Treasures K
Fun Phonemes PK-TK, K
Phenomenal Phonics K-2
Fonética fenomenal K-2
Fonemas fantásticos K
High Frequency
Words With Turtle K-2
Letter & Word Book Treehouse K-1
Passages Playhouse K-2
Introduce early learners to letters through hands-on lessons that invite students to practice letter formation, phonemic awareness, and making connections to each letter in the real world.
Students complete activities on their alphabet journey to build rapid letter recognition and identification - hearing, identifying, and writing the letters of the alphabet in multimodal ways. Available in Spanish!
Students build phonemic awareness with Teacher Barnes and Sound Hound by listening to, identifying, and matching sounds to build mastery of each phoneme. Available in Spanish!
Dynamic phonics practices help students recognize sound-spelling relationships by sorting, blending, segmenting, and making connections. Available in Spanish!
Los cuadernos de ejercicios son cosa del pasado. ¡Con Seesaw, las lecciones de fonética son fascinantes y divertidas!
¡Sigue a Loro Sonoro para practicar y jugar con los fonemas!
Phonics Games K-2
Lessons available in English and Spanish!
Engage students in dynamic activities that foster analysis, spelling, identification, writing, creativity, and practical application of over 100 high-frequency words, paving the way to build confident and fluent readers.
Embark on an enriching literacy journey and ignite a love for learning in early readers as they explore the alphabet, practice letter and digraph sounds, build foundational vocabulary, and master decoding skills!
Dive into the world of reading fluency and comprehension! Invite students to experience reader’s theater, while engaging in word work and reading comprehension activities, fostering confident and skilled readers.
Enhance phonics fluency with Phonics Games: engaging, interactive activities that reinforce sound-spelling patterns and foster early reading and writing skills, perfect for independent or partner play!
Everything teachers need for flexible, effective implementation
• Versatile lessons that support whole-class, small group and independent work
• Activity mats
• Lesson plans
• Teachers guides with week-by-week recommendations
Industry award-winning platform
Essential Instructional Tools to Support Multilingual Learners
Seesaw equips teachers to differentiate instruction and foster culturally-responsive classrooms that drive academic growth and language acquisition.
Research-based strategies are possible at scale with Seesaw.
• Provide visuals, modeling, audio directions, opportunities to practice speaking and listening, and other scaffolds
• Seesaw’s intuitive multimodal tools allow students to show what they know in the way that makes the most sense to them
• Engage students’ greatest resource, their families, with inclusive messaging that automatically translates text into 100+ home languages
Intentionally designed lessons and collections found in the Seesaw Library
• Accessing grade-level content in a safe, welcoming space that honors students’ home language and abilities is possible with Seesaw ELD*. A package complete with engaging, scaffolded lessons to practice reading, writing, listening, and speaking English in the context of 480+ ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies lessons for flexible implementations
• Support your English Language newcomers with engaging ways to build common vocabulary and high-utility words as they journey through their community in the English Language Explorers: Newcomers Collection
• Lessons in Spanish have been transadapted by native Spanish speakers to prioritize cultural relevance, support Spanish dual-language and bilingual programs, and create true access points for students and their families
A Safe Space to Practice
Speaking
Students use audio recording, video, and screen recording tools to practice without the pressure of performing in front of others.
Listening
Audio inputs make grade-level content, complex ideas, and new vocabulary accessible, which drives language acquisition.
Self-Assessing & Reflecting Students can listen back to their efforts – a powerful learning experience that builds ownership, motivation, and confidence.
Get Started with Multimodal Language Scaffolds with Seesaw
Add Audio Directions to Seesaw Activities
• Create a new activity or edit an existing
• Click Record Voice to add audio directions
Include Visuals to Aid Comprehension
• Click Creative Canvas to create a new template
• If a template is already attached, click it to open and edit
• Use the Upload tool to add photos or illustrations to accompany text
Record a Model or Demo of the Task
• On the student template, use the Video tool to record
• Place the video next to the task for students to access as they need
Give Opportunities to Share Voice
• Add Frames to the canvas to make it easier than ever for students to show learning
• Frames are smart shapes that auto select the right tool, reducing barriers for MLs
• The Video, Voice, and Record tools give MLs opportunities to practice speaking
Provide Intuitive Assessments
• Create drag & drop formative assessment questions with images to get an accurate picture of MLs’ mastery of grade-level content
• Practice mode allows students to check their work and receive hints in real time, helping provide guidance while working independently
Create a Community of Learning with Seesaw
Foster strong school-home partnerships through inclusive two-way communication centered on learning.
Engage Families as Partners
Support seamless collaboration between all of the adults in a student’s life, from administrators and classroom teachers to specialists and family members.
Reach All Families — in Their Language
Any text written in Seesaw can be translated into 100+ languages with one click by both teachers and families.
Provide Visibility Into Student Learning
From video reflections to hands-on group projects, family members can view work instantly on any device.
Three Ways to Start Building Connections
Centralized bulk family invites, including districtwide ClassLink and Clever sync, makes setup seamless. Once connected - access remains active from year to year.
photos, videos, links, and files in private messages or school-wide announcements. Perfect for newsletters, weekly recaps, and reminders.
With Seesaw, families don’t have to wait for conferences to learn what’s happening in class. Use conferences as an opportunity for students to reflect on and take ownership of sharing their learning and growth.
Seesaw
for providing family members with visibility into their child’s learning in the classroom.
Give families a true window into the classroom in the same place students engage with learning every day! Seesaw provides one place to meet all of your instructional, engagement, and family communication needs.
An All-in-One Platform for Families and Students
Send messages to a whole group, custom group, or one recipient
Timely and consistent communication with schedule-ahead features and school-wide announcements
All family communication can be translated into 100+ languages!
District admin settings for a consistent and secure experience
Engage families at multiple points along the learning journeyview student work in real-time, view progress reports, like & comment.
Empower young learners to share their voice and demonstrate learning with industry-leading multimodal learning tools
Provide a window into student growth and engage families as partners with connected year-over-year portfolios
Provide high-quality instruction with built-in school-home connections with award-winning supplemental curriculum
Streamline teacher workflow with flexible instructional tools and class settings
And more on the only platform that meets the unique needs of elementary classrooms.
“The toughest job we have as administrators is building that relationship between the school and families. Seesaw was like hitting a fast-forward button on developing that relationship.”
Reggie Farmer, Principal | Somerset Academy | Stephanie Campus
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10 Helpful Teacher Resources from Seesaw
Seesaw’s Learning Experience Platform has expanded the Learning Loop to offer more features to support you! Our new Teacher Resource webpage offers a variety of materials and content to help you get the most out of our Instructional Tools and Resources Digital Portfolios — Assessments — Support for Accessible & Differentiated Learning — Family Engagement & Communication and much more!
Classroom Posters & Printables Tutorial Videos Quick Start Guides Standards Alignment Search Tool
Classroom Dailies (Timely Activities) What’s New from Seesaw Seesaw Educator Community
Seesaw Scrapbook for Inspiration Helpful Family Support Resources
Templates, Anchor Charts, & Organizers
To access these resources, go to our Teacher Resource page!
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