AI Needs Teachers: Empowering Educators in the Age of AI
Seesaw Sneak Peek: Smarter Tools, More Joy
Rethink, Refresh, and Reinforce: Creative Classroom Management Strategies for Success
Seesaw: In My Active Learning Era
Level Up Your Phonics Instruction
Designing Joyful & Accessible Classrooms that Drive Academic Success
Unlock AI in Seesaw: Create, Engage, and Personalize Learning Experiences
Simple STEM in Any Classroom
Podcasts as Inspiration: Sprouting Young Writers with Student-Created Audio
Nurturing Young Engineers: Leveraging Families to Build Creative Thinkers
Refresh Your Teachers with Seesaw
Design Thinking in Education
Giveaway Extravaganza!
Student Goals with Seesaw
Utilising Seesaw as an Effective Digital Assessment Tool
IGNITES
Levels of Engagement: A Tool For Self-Regulation
AI Decodables + Seesaw: Your 5-Minute Fluency Power-Up!
Seesaw & AI: Creating Interactive Classrooms for All Learners
AI + Seesaw: Designing Smart, Engaging, and Differentiated Lessons
Integration and the Low-Budget Makerspace
Sessions
Sara Romero-Heaps Chief Product Officer
Seesaw Learning
AI Needs Teachers: Empowering Educators in the Age of AI
In a world buzzing with headlines about AI replacing teachers, this keynote offers a bold, hopeful counter-narrative: the future of learning doesn’t sideline educators, it depends on them. Join Seesaw’s Chief Product Officer, a former teacher and instructional coach, for an inspiring exploration of how AI can amplify, not replace, the deep expertise, care, and judgment teachers bring to their classrooms every day. You’ll leave with a new vision for your role in the age of AI, not just as a relationshipbuilder, but as a curator, orchestrator, ethicist, and connector. This is a call to action to help shape the future of education because AI needs teachers, and students deserve nothing less.
Emily Voigtlander Director of Product Strategy
Seesaw Learning
Katie Klipp First Grade Teacher
Bob Jones Academy
Seesaw Sneak Peek: Smarter Tools, More Joy
Get ready for the next generation of Seesaw! Be the first to explore brandnew AI-powered features designed to take lesson planning off your plate, spark student creativity, and free you up to do what you do best—connect with your kids. Whether you’re looking to save time, simplify routines, or supercharge engagement, this session will show you how Seesaw is leveling up for back to school. Come see what’s new—and what’s next!
Rethink, Refresh, and Reinforce: Creative Classroom Management Strategies for Success
Are you spending more time managing your classroom than teaching in it? If so, it might be time for a classroom management reset! This session will guide you in rethinking traditional strategies and exploring innovative techniques to build consistency, maintain structure, and create an environment where learning thrives. Say goodbye to reactive behavior interventions and hello to proactive classroom leadership!
Tiffany Wood Instructional Technology Coordinator
Mid-Del Schools
Lindsay Kemeny Teacher and Author Davis School District
Kris Szajner Sr. Content Marketing Manager
Seesaw Learning
Sessions
Seesaw: In My Active Learning Era
In this session, attendees will learn the difference between active and passive learning, and how to upgrade passive lessons and activities into active learning experiences for students.
Level Up Your Phonics Instruction
Are you ready to take your phonics instruction to the next level? Join 1st grade teacher and author Lindsay Kemeny, to discover ways to boost engagement and learning in your phonics lesson. Learn how to increase student participation and implement effective routines and transitions to increase the learning for all students.
Designing Joyful & Accessible Classrooms that Drive Academic Success
Research shows that when students have a joyful and engaging elementary school experience, it lays the groundwork for long-term academic achievement and a lifelong love of learning. In this session, discover how to create classroom environments where every learner can thrive. Learn how Seesaw’s evidence-based platform removes barriers, supporting accommodations, and embracing learner variability through multimodal tools. See how students can capture and explain hands-on learning to support student agency, and give teachers meaningful insights to identify growth, address gaps, and celebrate success.
Shelly Chmil
K-12 Technology
Integration Coach
Warwick School District
Chris Woods
Teacher
Southwest Middle High Academia Bilingue
Lindsey Davis
Teacher
Regional School Unit 22
Sessions
Lynn Brubaker
Second Grade Teacher
Warwick School District
Unlock AI in Seesaw: Create, Engage, and Personalize Learning Experiences
Join Shelly and Lynn as they showcase innovative ways to harness artificial intelligence to create dynamic Seesaw learning opportunities! Discover how to design AI-powered Seesaw assessments, generate grade-level and content-specific “”Read to Me”” passages, and boost student engagement with creative tools like rap battles, songs, and customized chatbots. Don’t miss this opportunity to transform your Seesaw activities and elevate student learning!
Simple STEM in Any Classroom
STEM isn’t just for the STEM classroom. It’s real & relevant connections between the classroom learning and the world. In this session we’ll talk about WHY it is important to add some STEM learning to every classroom, and HOW to do it despite budget & time constraints.
Podcasts as Inspiration: Sprouting Young Writers with Student-Created Audio
Join Lindsey Davis for an engaging session where we explore the power of student-created audio podcasts to ignite the imagination of young writers! In this workshop, we’ll dive into the process of crafting short, 1-2 minute podcasts that encourage students in Prekindergarten through second grade to express their creativity and explore various writing genres. Similar to the popular Story Sparks for upper elementary, this approach will cater specifically to young learners, providing them with the tools to inspire their classmates and beyond. Attendees will discover practical strategies for integrating these audio recordings into their classrooms, fostering collaboration, and building a vibrant writing community. Don’t miss this opportunity to empower your students as they share their voices and stories through audio. Together, let’s sprout a love for writing in our youngest learners!
Sessions
Brittney Tarr
PreK-4 STEM Specialist
Thomas Metcalf
Nurturing Young Engineers: Leveraging Families to Build Creative Thinkers
Now more than ever our society needs children to be developing creative and critical thinking skills that are nurtured through STEM activities. But did you know that one of the largest correlating factors to our youngest learners feeling like they belong in STEM has nothing to do with the classroom and everything to do with family recognition? Come learn tips and tricks on how you can leverage family engagement to build an engineering mindset in your youngest learners with ideas that don’t break the bank!
Cara Colf K-2 Special Educator
Newark Central School District
Refresh Your Teachers with Seesaw
After using Seesaw as one of our many learning tools during COVID, our teachers became burn out from technology and have not engaged with Seesaw in the last few years. With all of Seesaw’s exciting features the last two years, we have worked to engage our staff to become excited again about how impactful Seesaw is. This “ignite” session is to share the ideas that we have used over the past year to engage our staff with attending professional development sessions, trying new activities, and using Seesaw more consistently within our K-2 classrooms.
Adam Hill Founder & Director
Launchpad STEM
Design Thinking in Education
Design Thinking is a powerful and authentic approach to inquiry learning that places great emphasis on empathy, creativity and collaboration. When topics and units are taught through a Design Thinking framework, it adds tremendous value and depth to learning. Through Design Thinking, students exercise agency, develop a can-do attitude and bring about meaningful change. In this session, participants will learn about each phase of the Design Thinking framework, why they matter and some practical strategies that students can use throughout the process. Teachers will leave the session feeling empowered and excited to apply Design Thinking to their upcoming topics and units.
Sessions
Jordan Priestley Teacher
Clare Willemse Digital Learning Specialist
Catholic
Schools
Parramatta Diocese
Carolina
Castro First Grade Teacher
Colegio Interamericano, Guatemala
Student Goals with Seesaw
This session will focus and share how students can document and create student goal evidence using the tools in Seesaw. This is perfect for teachers looking into real-time reporting and wanting to bring in opportunities for students to engage in sharing more of their own voice with their learning journey. This session will share real examples from the classroom and some tips to help you move into a student goal shift in your practice.
Utilising Seesaw as an Effective Digital Assessment Tool
Discover how to use Seesaw as a powerful assessment tool that goes beyond digital portfolios. This session covers aligning observations with learning goals using Seesaw’s Standards and Curriculum tool, collecting diverse evidence, and providing effective feedback. Explore real-world examples of teacher observations, self-assessments, and peer feedback to foster student growth and reflection. Gain practical strategies to enhance assessments and empower student ownership of learning.
Levels of Engagement: A Tool For Self-Regulation
It is very common to hear educators talk about the challenge of teaching students to make constructive decisions in their learning and how they wish students could be more engaged in their classrooms. Using levels of engagement as a tool for self-regulation offers a shift in focus. Rather than the teacher managing behavior, the emphasis transitions to guiding students in making choices that drive their learning. This empowers them and imparts a valuable life skill: using self-regulation more successfully to make better choices. This tool helps students understand the connection between self-regulation and their learning goals, enabling them to take ownership of their learning.
Sessions
Laney Rogers Instructional Technology Coach
Darlington
County School District
AI Decodables + Seesaw: Your 5-Minute Fluency Power-Up!
Want to boost your students’ reading fluency? In this lightning-fast Ignite session, you’ll discover how to leverage the power of AI to generate targeted decodable texts in seconds. We’ll then dive into Seesaw, demonstrating how to create engaging ‘read-with-me’ activities from your AI-generated decodables. Finally, learn how to build simple yet effective fluency assessments within Seesaw, allowing students to record their reading and providing you with valuable data. In just a few minutes, you’ll gain practical strategies to transform your literacy instruction and empower your students to become confident, fluent readers. Get ready for a quick, impactful session that will revolutionize your approach to decodable practice and fluency monitoring!
Madison Rhodes Digital Learning Coach Frisco ISD
Seesaw & AI: Creating Interactive Classrooms for All Learners
Seesaw is more than just a digital portfolio—it’s a powerful tool for fostering engagement, differentiation, and interactive learning at any grade level. In this session, discover how Seesaw’s features can enhance vocabulary instruction and student collaboration while integrating AIpowered strategies to support all learners. Walk away with practical ideas and ready-to-use activities that will transform your classroom into a dynamic, interactive learning space!
INGNITE
INGNITE
Sessions
Stefanie Kleinholter
Digital Learning Coach
Bullitt
County Public Schools
AI + Seesaw: Designing Smart, Engaging, and Differentiated Lessons
Learn how to leverage Seesaw’s AI tool alongside other AI resources to create engaging, student-centered lessons that save time and support diverse learners. This session will explore using AI to generate lesson ideas, prompts, and scaffolds, automate differentiation, and enhance student engagement through questioning, reflection, and storytelling.
Grace Osio Principal
The
IRRI School
Integration and the Low-Budget Makerspace
A low-budget Makerspace for K-2 students evolved into a full-time classroom using donated, recyclable materials. Seesaw showcases projects, enhancing learning and creativity. This session shares strategies for maximizing resources to foster engagement and inspire families to create makerspaces at home, enriching students’ experiences.
Resources
For Seesaw teachers, Your Joyful Pack of Resources for Your Back to School Classroom! Inside this pack, you’ll find ready-touse guides, posters, and student tools to help you kick off the year with confidence and joy. Whether you’re new to Seesaw or looking to refresh your routines, this pack is here to spark engagement and support every learner.
For free Seesaw users, if you’d like to get Seesaw Elementary LMS or Seesaw Instruction and Insights, talk to your administrator! Our team can help find the best fit for your school.
If you are not using Seesaw and are interested in trying it out, download it for free here and start exploring!
