Kris Szajner

Everything You Can Do with Messages to Communicate and Collaborate with Your Entire School Community

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Kris Szajner

School communities thrive on communication. Seesaw has been a place where teachers, students, and families can come together around learning. Messages makes student-centered communication more flexible and inclusive for all members of your learning community. Everything you loved about communicating on Seesaw is there. Like before, Messages includes class announcements, one-on-one conversations, multimodal attachments, editing messages […]

3 Quick Routines That Build Classroom Community from Day One

Posted on August 9, 2022 by Kris Szajner

Outside the home, the place many children spend the majority of their time is the classroom. Each school year, students are greeted by a new teacher and new group of classmates. A new community that shapes the year ahead. A positive classroom community helps students feel like they belong. When students feel included and valued […]

Game Changing Ways 4 Teachers are Preparing for Back to School This Year

Posted on August 7, 2022 by Kris Szajner

New ideas for the new school year! This time each year, we see so many innovative ways that Seesaw teachers are preparing for the year ahead. From fresh ways to build relationships with student to tips for partnering with families to cool ways to use technology to make learning engaging, accessible, and fun. We had […]

The Power of Digital Portfolios for Students

Posted on August 4, 2022 by Kris Szajner

Learning portfolios of the past often took the form of large, overstuffed binders with paper spilling out the sides. Filled with writing assignments, tests, drawings, and packets, they captured student accomplishments at specific points in time – snapshots of their year. Technology transformed portfolios into something more. Over the years, we’ve seen the power of […]

Learn with the Seesaw Expert: PreK and Transitional Kindergarten with Seesaw Library

Posted on August 3, 2022 by Kris Szajner

Our recent Learn with the Expert session featured three Seesaw experts from Seesaws’ curriculum development team including Erin Wakshlag, Deserae Richards, and Melodee Barnes. Erin Wakshlag is the current senior manager of curriculum at Seesaw and a former elementary school teacher and reading interventionist who received her master’s in educational leadership with an administrative credential […]

Seesaw’s Complete Kindergarten Readiness Checklist

Posted on August 2, 2022 by Kris Szajner

Starting kindergarten is an exciting milestone for students and families. Students will be learning new things, in new ways, in new places, and with new people! How do families know when their child is ready for this adventure? Every child develops at their own pace. Yet there are a handful of skills that help students […]

Summer Learning Activities that Build Skills, Engage Families, and Keep Learning Fun

Posted on July 28, 2022 by Kris Szajner

When the last bell of the school year rings, students go home to a range of learning resources and opportunities. Educators often wonder, How do we support learning outside school walls? One effective approach is to blend learning experiences into everyday life. The home is a rich, hands-on learning lab just waiting to be tapped! […]