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Why Awardco?
Best-in-class features for world-class educators
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.
Retain top education talent
Teachers and staff who feel supported and cared for are much less likely to look for a new job.
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.
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.
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success stories
Honor-roll-worthy rewards and recognition
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Integrations & Security
Securely connect to your everyday tools
Seamlessly integrate recognition into existing processes and keep data secure.
Integrations
Awardco works well with all the tools you already use, so you can easily integrate recognition into your day-to-day.
thought leadership & resources
Employee engagement resources
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Can students, families, or community members recognize educators and staff?
Depending on the enabled functionality, organizations may be able to provide an External Recognition™ experience that allows students, families, visitors, customers, or other members of the community to recognize eligible employees.
Organizations can use configured links, QR codes, or other access methods to make recognition available without requiring external participants to have an employee account. Programs should define how submissions identify the intended employee, and each external recognition requires review before it is shared or rewarded.
Can education organizations offer recognition that fits limited budgets and tax policies?
Yes. Organizations can combine non-monetary recognition with points or other configured reward options and set different award values for different programs, milestones, employee groups, or locations.
Available rewards may include gift cards, products, experiences, charitable options, branded merchandise, or other configured choices. Organizations can also use approval workflows, budgets, catalogs, and reporting to align recognition with internal policies and available funding.
Tax treatment and reporting requirements vary by reward type, employee location, program structure, and applicable law. Finance, payroll, tax, legal, and HR teams should review the program before launch.
Can Awardco automate service awards, onboarding, birthdays, and other recurring programs?
Yes. Awardco can use employee data and configured program rules to support automated moments such as service anniversaries, onboarding, birthdays, and other recurring recognition activities.
Automation can help organizations identify eligible employees, apply timing and award rules, send configured communications, and reduce reliance on spreadsheets, calendars, committees, or manual tracking. Organizations may also configure non-monetary recognition for moments where a message or celebration is more appropriate than a reward.
The available triggers, timing, data requirements, and exception handling depend on the organization’s employee-data source and program configuration.
Can central administration maintain oversight while schools, campuses, or departments manage locally?
Yes. Organizations can use a centrally governed framework while configuring programs, budgets, permissions, catalogs, or communications for individual schools, campuses, departments, locations, or employee groups.
Central teams can establish shared standards and reporting, while authorized local administrators manage appropriate day-to-day activities within those boundaries. This can support a consistent organization-wide strategy without requiring every location to use identical rules or rewards.
The available hierarchy, permissions, budget controls, and local configuration options depend on the organization’s data, plan, and setup.
Can we recognize teachers, faculty, staff, and other employee groups equitably?
Yes. Organizations can design recognition programs for the employee populations that matter to them, including teachers, faculty, administrators, classified staff, facilities and operations teams, hourly employees, adjuncts, part-time employees, and other eligible groups.
Available employee and organizational data can help determine eligibility, program access, award values, budgets, and reporting. This allows organizations to recognize contributions across the workforce rather than limiting recognition to one role or department.
External Recognition™ also opens the avenue of recognition coming from those outside your organization (such as parents, students, or school visitors) to teachers and staff. This increases the impact and frequency of appreciation.
Eligibility, segmentation, and reward options depend on the employee data provided, program design, organizational policies, and configuration.
Is Awardco a good fit for schools, districts, colleges, and universities?
Yes. Awardco can support education organizations that want to bring employee recognition, rewards, milestone programs, incentives, engagement, and reporting into a more consistent experience.
Organizations can start with a focused use case—such as service anniversaries, onboarding, birthdays, or peer recognition—and expand as their goals and resources develop. A centralized platform can help reduce fragmented processes while allowing the organization to align programs with its workforce, budget, and operating model.
One Awardco client in the education space, Southern Oregon Head Start, saw an 82% drop in annual attrition after implementation, showcasing the impact recognition can have.
