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.

teacher recognition

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

Awardco has definitely helped us do recognition even better. Recognizing someone you work with, even if you don’t see them every day, has been empowering.

Ashley Martin

President & CEO

When we implemented Awardco, we refreshed everything and synced all service dates to our HRIS. It works flawlessly now—and the person who used to manage that spreadsheet is very happy.

Dawn Bloch

Chief People Officer

We've put a lot of resources and focus on associate engagement and overall morale and wellness. Because of the initiatives that we've put forth this year, we've realized an 8.2% reduction in our turnover rate.

Dawn Bloch

Chief People Officer

We’ve always had some sort of recognition program, but never anything all-inclusive where all associates at every location were engaged in the same program—until Awardco.

Dawn Bloch

Chief People Officer

Using the Awardco mobile app has made it so much easier to recognize our team in the moment. I love being able to snap a quick photo and send recognition right from my phone while I am on the go, so those feelings of appreciation are never lost. In a hospital environment where our people are rarely at a desk, having that kind of flexibility is incredibly important.

Madeline Quinn

Employee Experience Manager

There's plenty of research that shows the compounding impact of how when other people can see recognition, it creates that snowball effect. And so it just makes people work better together. They feel more as part of the team.

Zach Makoutz

Sr. Manager, Category Sales Product

Recognition just reminds you that no, you are seen. Your work is not for nothing. You are appreciated. It feels great and helps you stay motivated, even when things are tough.

Zach Makoutz

Sr. Manager, Category Sales Product

This integration to our Slack channel… makes it very easy and seamless. There’s this running log of all of these shout outs, which I think is really powerful.

Zach Makoutz

Sr. Manager, Category Sales Product