Funding Guide
This informational guide provides educational leaders various funding sources available and the evidence needed to purchase Seesaw.
Seesaw offers an award-winning platform and a suite of digital curriculum products grounded in research, for teachers to deliver joyful, accessible instruction. Through interactive lessons, digital portfolios, and two-way communication features, Seesaw keeps everyone in the learning loop by providing continuous visibility into the student’s learning experience to support and celebrate their learning.
Seesaw helps school leaders reach all learners through various funding options.
Funding Sources
IDEA
IDEA is a grants statute that provides federal funding for the education of children with disabilities.
Grants
(Federal, State, & Local)
Federal, state, and local entities offer educational grants to fund diverse learning needs.
Seesaw Alignment & Support
Seesaw offers an accessible platform that allows students with disabilities to engage in learning through voice, video, drawing and text, ensuring equitable access to education and personalized support for diverse learning needs.
• Professional Development: Seesaw provides training for special education personnel and general education teachers who educate children with disabilities.
• Accessible Instructional Tools: Seesaw’s multimodal tools, multilingual support, voice/ video recording, and visual aids promote equitable learning.
• Use Cases: Seesaw supports IEP/504 accommodations, students with disabilities, documentation of non-verbal students, and Multilingual Learners.
• ESSA Alignment: evidence-based intervention, enabling the use of federal funding.
• Impact Demonstration: provides tools to document student progress and demonstrate measurable learning outcomes, crucial for grant reporting.
• Key Goal Support: facilitates family engagement, differentiated instruction, and 21stcentury skill development, aligning with grant priorities.
• Data Collection: track growth and success with data to show improved learning outcomes.
• Resource & Training: professional development and support for effective platform implementation, maximizing grant investment.
ESSA
(Every Student Succeeds Act)
ESSA represents the national education law and longstanding commitment to equal opportunity for all students.
Funding Sources
Title I
Title I provides federal funds to schools with high percentages of students from lowincome families.
Title II
Title II supports professional development for teachers, principals, and other school leaders.
Seesaw Alignment & Support
Flexible Instructional Tools and Ready-to-Assign Lessons
• Engaging, accessible lessons with rigorous, accessible content and diverse assessment options provide a comprehensive view of each student’s progress and voice.
Family Engagement
• Families gain learning visibility, communicate in their home language, provide direct feedback, and view student-driven portfolios that share progress with teachers, peers, and family.
Flexible Instructional Tools and Ready-to-Assign Lessons
• Empowers teachers with integrated features, standards-aligned lessons, and engaging practice to effectively reinforce core curriculum and drive real learning outcomes.
Virtual or In-Person Professional Development Delivered by Seesaw Expert Facilitators
• Expert-led training drives higher engagement across teachers, students, and families, providing immediate, practical empowerment for school staff.
Community Support for Educators
• Seesaw’s ambassador community consisting of 100,000 educators globally shares resources, ideas, and training.
Title III
Title III supports language instruction educational programs and other services to help MLLs meet state academic standards.
Title IV
Title IV saims to provide students with a wellrounded education, safe and healthy school environments, and effective use of technology.
Accessible Multimodal Tools for Language Support
• Multimodal tools, diverse assessments, and language translations enhance accessibility, oral language development, and family engagement, providing a comprehensive view of student progress.
Instructional Resources to Support Multilingual Learners
• Equitable access with bilingual, culturally relevant content in Spanish and English; English development tools; and multimodal features, enhancing language acquisition and student progress.
Accessible Learning Experiences + Enrichment Content
• Provides accessible, personalized digital curriculum with captioned instructional videos, age-appropriate activities, multimodal tools, and a 6000+ activity library; fostering digital literacy and student wellbeing across all subjects, including enrichment.
21st Century Learning Skills
• Seesaw empowers students with multimodal tools and 21st-century skill integration, offering ready-to-go, accessible, standards-aligned lessons that incorporate digital citizenship and cross-curricular content for active learning.
Family Engagement
• Seesaw empowers families with transparent learning insights, home-language communication, direct feedback options, and student-driven portfolios that connect them to their child’s progress with teachers and peers.
Award-Winning Instructional Platform Grounded in Research and Designed by Experts
• Validated as a designated Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Tier III evidence-based intervention by industry-leading third-party, Edtech insights organization, LearnPlatform
• Earned Digital Promise product certifications for Research-Based Design for Instructional Learning Products and Learner Variability
• Awarded International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Seal of Alignment demonstrating powerful instructional tools that deliver a high-quality learning experience aligned to the leading digital age standards
• Structured and explicit literacy instruction based on the Science of Reading research from Dr. Louisa Moats and Wiley Blevins
• Supports educators in applying the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines for their instruction
• Equips schools and districts with evidence-based tools to implement Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)
EVIDENCE-BASED VALIDATION & CERTIFICATIONS
Universal Design for Learning in Action!
• Engagement
• Representation
• Action & Expression
Multimodal tools enable equitable participation, student agency, and support accommodations.
Accessible & Flexible
Seesaw Supports:
• Web version screen readers
Speech to Text or Dictation
Custom voice instructions and label options
Colors, contrasts, and fonts
Close captioning
Seesaw drives whole-child success—students with more family engagement scored significantly higher on NWEA MAP reading and math tests, supporting MTSS and district-wide growth.
96% of teachers find Seesaw helpful for providing family members with visibility into their child’s learning in the classroom.
Learn more about how Seesaw supports Family Engagement!
Seesaw’s parent and family engagement features can lead to positive school-wide outcomes, including:
• Homework completion
• Parents helping with learning at home
• School climate
• Student discipline
• Reading at home
• Student attendance
• Teacher-parent relations
• Student preparedness for school
• Active parents and/or volunteers
• Higher grades and test scores
• Engaged students
• Translation of text into 100+ languages
Seesaw Funding Alignment at a Glance
Seesaw LMS
• Multimodal Tools
• Digital Portfolios
• Progress Monitoring
• Messaging
Seesaw Library
Computer Science Curriculum, powered by Seesaw
Seesaw Professional Development
• Live and Virtual PD Sessions
• Community (PLCs)
• Learning Hub Async Courses
Seesaw Early Literacy Supplemental Curriculum Package
Seesaw ELD Supplemental Curriculum Package
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