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High Quality Instruction
Teachers enhance their instruction with premium instructional tools and content designed to make high-quality instruction more engaging, remove barriers to learning and foster creative expression.
Learning Insights
Digital portfolios serve as both formative and summative assessments, allowing students to show what they know and reflect on their learning. Educator views into student learning drive insights far beyond data from standardized assessments.
Students who had more family visits to their work had statiscally significantly higher reading and math scores compared to students who had fewer family visits.
Family Engagement Centered on Learning
Actively inviting families into their childs learning through real time updates from the classroom and two-way communication helps foster relational trust among teachers, parents, and school leaders and improves academic outcomes for students.
Students who had more posts with video or voice had statiscally significantly higher reading and math scores compared to students who had fewer posts.
Association between number of posts with video or voice in Seesaw and end-of-year student reading and math outcomes on NWEA MAP® in terms of correlation coefficients.
Findings from an independent study evaluating the impact of Seesaw usage on students in a suburban district in the midwestern US that used Seseaw during the 22-23 school year.
• Industry-leading third-party LearnPlatform has validated Seesaw as an ESSA Tier III evidence-based intervention, demonstrating evidence of Seesaw usage and improved student outcomes.
• Seesaw has earned two highly regarded product certifications for Research-Based Design for Instructional Learning Products and Learner Variability from Digital Promise, demonstrating Seesaw’s commitment to providing equitable, research-backed learning experiences for every learner to reach their full potential.
• Awarded the ISTE Seal of Alignment. Grounded in learning science research and based on practitioner experience, the ISTE Standards ensure that using technology for learning can create high-impact, sustainable, scalable and equitable learning experiences for all learners.
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96.5% agree that Seesaw is easy to integrate into their instructional lesson plans
96.35% find Seesaw helpful for assessing students’ learning proficiency towards academic standards
92.15% feel that their students are empowered to take ownership of their work while using Seesaw
96.26% find Seesaw helpful for providing family members with visibility into their child’s learning in the classroom
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Wichita Public Schools Uses Seesaw to Deepen Family Engagement and Creatively Assess Student Growth
The district uses Seesaw as an all-in-one tool for their elementary classrooms - enabling teachers to find creative ways to instruct and assess, engage students, and connect with families.
Iowa AEA rolls out Seesaw Computer Science Curriculum to help K-5 teachers across Iowa teach CS foundations
Through thoughtful professional learning, an easy-to-use curriculum and scope and sequence, and engaging interactive content, teachers across the state developed skills and confidence to teach this new and required subject.
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