Recognition for Education

Pass the employee engagement exam

Drive motivation, engagement, and retention for teachers and education staff with meaningful recognition and rewards.

Trusted by 3,000+ organizations worldwide

Why Awardco?

Best-in-class features for world-class educators

External Recognition

Allow students, parents, and other visitors to scan a QR code and recognize the teachers they interact with. Spread more appreciation and help teachers see their impact.

Service Awards

Reward tenure with meaningful awards and genuine recognition, including a digital book full of compliments from colleagues.

Lifestyle Spending Accounts

Offer a flexible monetary benefit that gives staff the freedom of choice, without tying you down with a big investment.

Wellness Incentives

Drive and reward healthy behaviors with fitness challenges, mental health resources, and custom reward catalogs.

Automation & Reporting

Enjoy fully automated communication, reminders, reports, and more to save admins time.

Spot Recognition

With peer-to-peer recognition and AwardCodes®, everyone from teachers to librarians to janitors will feel valued and seen.

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Educators deserve A+ appreciation

44% of educators report feeling burned out. Build resilience, lower stress, and increase retention by showing genuine, timely appreciation for your education staff.

Why Recognition?

Teacher retention starts with meaningful recognition

69% of education staff are disengaged in their jobs—keep the best talent by helping them find more meaning in their work.

Retention

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less likely to switch jobs

Retain top education talent

Teachers and staff who feel supported and cared for are much less likely to look for a new job.

Retention

Engagement

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more engagement after recognition

Boost engagement with better rewards

Employees are more motivated and excited with their work when they know their efforts are noticed and that their work matters.

Engagement

Satisfaction

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of appreciated staff love their workplace

Appreciation builds connections between staff and their workplace

94% of employees who feel appreciated love their workplace. Only 18% who don’t feel appreciated still love their workplace—that’s not good enough.

Satisfaction

External Recognition

Allow anyone to recognize educators

Enable students, parents, and other outside parties to easily submit appreciative comments for the education staff they interact with, spreading recognition from the outside in.

success stories

Honor-roll-worthy rewards and recognition

Through our work phones, we get an email when we’ve earned points, and then we can log in to see our total, explore reward options, and decide how we want to use them. It stays top of mind throughout the day—whether we’re driving or working at customer sites.

Christopher Whilsmith

Certified Refueling Professional

Often, you're on the road for an entire shift, and you may not necessarily interact with a lot of other colleagues… And so being recognized helps you feel more connected with the team.

Christopher Whilsmith

Certified Refueling Professional

We have a lot of different programs to ensure we encompass all our employees. Three of them tie directly to our core values: our peer-to-peer program, our manager-led programs, and our safety programs—like our Safety All-Stars, which is a monthly automated award.

Marna Lagerquist

Manager, Talent Acquisition and Development

Seventy-five percent of our employees are out in the field, so how do we get them excited and engaged? The safety programs really got them energized. They had the opportunity to earn a lot of points, but they also received meaningful recognition. I was really impressed by how much our login engagement increased over time.

Marna Lagerquist

Manager, Talent Acquisition and Development

Our people use their points for vacations, holidays, gifts… it’s meaningful to them.

Roshan Varghese

Sr. Director, Environment, Health & Safety

Employees look forward to seeing their monthly Safety All-Star points. Those conversations happen in lunchrooms, dressing rooms—it becomes part of our culture.

Roshan Varghese

Sr. Director, Environment, Health & Safety

We were doing recognition even before we adopted this platform, but this platform made it so easy for our frontline leaders and middle managers to run the recognition program.

Roshan Varghese

Sr. Director, Environment, Health & Safety

We have an on-the-spot recognition program where leaders can immediately recognize a CRP for demonstrating safe behavior. That recognition is visible across the organization, which motivates others to do the same. Instead of focusing on what went wrong, we’ve shifted our culture to spotlight what’s being done right—and that’s encouraged everyone to follow that path.

Roshan Varghese

Sr. Director, Environment, Health & Safety