Sammamish High School has been selected by Microsoft as a 2014-2015 Microsoft Showcase School for its excellence in transforming its learning environment to deliver more personalized education to students, using mobile and cloud technology to better prepare students for success in the workplace.

Sammamish teachers worked with a Microsoft research team to develop tools to enhance the company’s OneNote for education. Educators say the program makes it easier for teachers to distribute course content to students and allows students to use either a keyboard or stylus to write and draw during class.

“Perhaps the most transformational feature … is the opportunity for teachers to see student work in real time through the OneNote tool,” said Bill Palmer, instructional technology curriculum leader at Sammamish. ” Teachers can check the entirety of the student’s work and give individual students or collaborative groups timely feedback.”

Sammamish Principal Tom Duenwald called being selected as a Microsoft Showcase School “an amazing honor and recognition of the passion our teachers and staff have for creating the best learning environments possible.”

The school will share its experiences with other schools in the community and the world.