Case Study: Davidson Academy achieves expanded classroom collaboration and student engagement with Microsoft Teams

Davidson Academy expands the boundaries of the classroom for both teachers and students with Microsoft Teams

Davidson Academy, a U.S. K–12 school, needed a way to expand classroom boundaries, improve teacher collaboration, and support a largely paperless, one-to-one Windows 10 learning environment. Facing fragmented communication, clunky file sharing, and limited opportunities for student voice, Davidson Academy piloted Microsoft Teams (alongside Office 365, OneNote Class Notebook, and Windows) to provide a unified hub for classrooms and staff.

After a year-long pilot with the five-teacher math department, Microsoft Teams became the central collaboration platform—centralizing files, enabling simultaneous editing, integrating OneNote, and replacing clumsy email threads and Dropbox workflows. The pilot saved teachers time, increased transparency and vertical teaming across grades, extended student interaction beyond the school day, helped shy students participate, and has been rolled out to groups of teachers and students who now use and endorse Teams as the school prepares for a broader deployment.

Davidson Academy

Craig Browning

IT Director