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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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!

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.

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.

Get ready for the next generation of Seesaw! Be the first to explore brand-new 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!

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.