North Hills Teacher Wins Blackboard Catalyst Award for Exemplary Course

North Hills High School math teacher Rick Roth has been named a winner of the Blackboard Catalyst Award for an Exemplary Course. 

He has been recognized for this outstanding achievement for the Geometry A course he developed and designed that is utilized in the Online Academy @ North Hills as well as by blendschools.net. Roth joins a select group of educators and course designers from around the world whose courses have earned the Exemplary Course designation. 

The Blackboard Exemplary Course Program recognizes innovative and exciting online and hybrid courses that represent the very best in technology and learning. More than 250 faculty and instructional designers evaluated hundreds of entries from around the world, and only 10 courses were selected as award winners. Elementary and high school courses are a very small percentage of the courses honored as higher education institutions tend to win most award designations. 

The Blackboard evaluation process is a rigorous one that begins with Blackboard’s call for nominations in December. To nominate the course, a blendedschools.net representative completed a detailed evaluation of the course using theBlackboard Exemplary Course Program Rubric. The rubric’s criteria fall under four main categories of evaluation - course design, interaction and collaboration, assessment and learner support. Each category also has several subcategories. 

Roth will be honored at the BbWorld annual use conference in Las Vegas in July. In addition, he and his course will be highlighted as the best of the Blackboard community on the company’s website. 

Learn more about Roth’s course in this informational video. 

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