
Elevating Student and Family Voices
Honored Schools is a program from Honored aimed at recognizing great teachers, elevating student voices, and creating a consistent culture of teacher appreciation within school communities.

The Program
Through the Honored Schools online platform, students (and parents on behalf of younger students) within each participating school community are encouraged to recognize teachers by telling a story of how the teacher made a difference in their life. Every teacher who is recognized will receive their student’s story and will be publicly recognized at their school and on the Honored Schools website. Also, each recognition story serves as a nomination for the annual Honored Schools Life-Changing Teacher Award.
The Award
At the end of each school year, two or more recognized teachers in each region will be awarded the Honored Schools Life-Changing Teacher Award and will receive a $2,000 DonorsChoose classroom resource and a $500 Visa Gift Card cash award and will be featured, along with the nominating student, on the HonoredSchools.org website.
Award recipients will be selected from each region’s pool of submissions by a local panel of community leaders in consultation with Honored Schools principals. The selection criteria focuses on the important impact the teacher has made on their students’ lives.
How many awards each district will receive depends on how many nominations are made:
Number of Nominations | Number of $2,500 Awards |
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200-500 | 2 Awards |
500-1,000 | 3 Awards |
1,001-1,500 | 4 Awards |
1,501-2,000 | 5 Awards |
2,001-3,000 | 6 Awards |