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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 enthusiastic about 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
Top-tier 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 recognise educators and staff?
Depending on the enabled functionality, organisations may be able to provide an External Recognition™ experience that allows students, families, visitors, customers, or other members of the community to recognise eligible employees.
Organisations can use configured links, QR codes, or other access methods to make recognition available without requiring external participants to have an employee account. Programmes should define how submissions identify the intended employee, and each external recognition requires review before it is shared or rewarded.
Can education organisations offer recognition that fits limited budgets and tax policies?
Yes. Organisations can combine non-monetary recognition with points or other configured reward options and set different award values for different programmes, milestones, employee groups, or locations.
Available rewards may include gift cards, products, experiences, charitable options, branded merchandise, or other configured choices. Organisations can also use approval workflows, budgets, catalogues, and reporting to align recognition with internal policies and available funding.
Tax treatment and reporting requirements vary by reward type, employee location, programme structure, and applicable law. Finance, payroll, tax, legal, and HR teams should review the programme before launch.
Can Awardco automate service awards, onboarding, birthdays, and other recurring programmes?
Yes. Awardco can use employee data and configured programme rules to support automated moments such as service anniversaries, onboarding, birthdays, and other recurring recognition activities.
Automation can help organisations identify eligible employees, apply timing and award rules, send configured communications, and reduce reliance on spreadsheets, calendars, committees, or manual tracking. Organisations 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 organisation’s employee-data source and programme configuration.
Can central administration maintain oversight while schools, campuses, or departments manage locally?
Yes. Organisations can use a centrally governed framework while configuring programmes, budgets, permissions, catalogues, or communications for individual schools, campuses, departments, locations, or employee groups.
Central teams can establish shared standards and reporting, while authorised local administrators manage appropriate day-to-day activities within those boundaries. This can support a consistent organisation-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 organisation’s data, plan, and setup.
Can we recognise teachers, faculty, staff, and other employee groups equitably?
Yes. Organisations can design recognition programmes for the employee populations that matter to them, including teachers, faculty, administrators, support staff, facilities and operations teams, hourly employees, adjuncts, part-time employees, and other eligible groups.
Available employee and organisational data can help determine eligibility, programme access, award values, budgets, and reporting. This allows organisations to recognise contributions across the workforce rather than limiting recognition to one role or department.
External Recognition™ also opens up the possibility of recognition coming from those outside your organisation (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, programme design, organisational policies, and configuration.
Is Awardco a good fit for schools, districts, colleges, and universities?
Awardco can support educational organisations looking to bring employee recognition, rewards, milestone programmes, incentives, engagement, and reporting into a more consistent experience.
Organisations 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 centralised platform can help reduce fragmented processes while allowing the organisation to align programmes with its workforce, budget, and operating model.
One Awardco client in the education sector, Southern Oregon Head Start, saw an 82% drop in annual staff turnover after implementation, showcasing the impact recognition can have.
