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

ROI of Recognition

Real-world recognition ROI

“Just managing our custom rewards felt like a full-time job with our previous vendor—it took all day every Friday. With Awardco, I don’t have to do any of the manual fulfillment work anymore. I’m saving 6-8 hours a week, just managing orders.”

Sara Beer

Director of Core Values

Why Awardco?

Features built for education

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.

Full automation

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.

Recognition & Education

Build resilient educators

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

Why Recognition?

Retain talented teachers

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

Attrition

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.

Attrition

Engagement

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

Culture

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.

Culture

External Recognition

Allow anyone to recognize educators

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