Collaboration across the globe

HeyMath! is all about seeking out best practices from great teachers around the world.

Our ongoing collaboration with Westport Public Schools in Connecticut USA is a example of how this works.

Westport is a high performing school district with an innovative Algebra 1 course. HeyMath! is working with them to create a set of lessons that closely matches their syllabus and teaching methodologies. Westport is bringing their vast experience of teaching an engaging and approachable course to American teenagers. We are bringing our experience of creating teaching resources for use across the globe.

The Westport teachers have given us their syllabus for the course, all their worksheets and lesson plans. We have used these to create an online lesson for every concept in their course. As we create the lessons, Westport teachers test them out in their classrooms. We get detailed feedback so are able to keep improving the lessons.

A highlight of the collaboration has been the recent visit of Karen Dickey (Westport Middle School Math Coordinator) to our headquarters in Chennai, India. It was invaluable to get two weeks of detailed feedback about the lessons created and a user’s perspective on using the HeyMath learning environment. You can see Karen’s views on HeyMath! and her visit here. As a direct result of the visit we have added features to many of our lessons, made changes to the teaching style we are using to make it more suitable for an American audience and improved the HeyMath! website to make it more useable for the Westport teachers.

Karen Dickey meeting teachers from PSBB school, Chennai

When we have completed the Algebra 1 in early March, the course will be a demonstration of collaboration across the globe, best teaching practices from America and also (we hope!) a brilliant grounding in Algebra for students from any country.