Student prizes (each student earns their own)
"Read 500 minutes, get a fidget spinner." Every student earns their own.
A student prize is something each student earns on their own when they reach a number. "Read 500 minutes, get a fidget spinner." When a student crosses the line, the teacher gets a heads-up so they can hand out the prize.
That's different from school-wide rewards, which unlock for everyone when the whole school hits a number. Student prizes are about each student racing themselves.
Setting up a prize
From your dashboard sidebar, click Student prizes, then + Add a prize.
Pick whether the prize is based on money raised or minutes read, set the number each student needs to hit, and give it a specific name. "Fidget spinner" gets a student more excited than "small toy."
Higher tiers stack — a student who reads 1,500 minutes earns both the 500-minute prize and the 1,500-minute one. And if a student has already passed the line when you add a new prize, they earn it right away.
Two or three prizes is plenty
One that almost everyone can reach, one that's a stretch, and one that's a real achievement. Any more and it gets confusing; any fewer and motivation drops once kids clear the first one.
Earning vs. handing out
We track these as two separate steps so prizes don't slip through the cracks. The moment a student crosses the line, they've earned the prize — but a teacher still needs to mark it as actually handed out in real life. Until they do, the student stays on the teacher's prize tracker as "waiting." See Handing out student prizes.
Once a student earns a prize, they keep it
Even if a teacher undoes a reading log that pushed a student past the line, the prize stays earned. Pulling a "you earned it!" announcement back from a child is the wrong move. (If you genuinely need to clear one — say, a duplicate by accident — email hello@pagepledge.com and we'll help.)
Tracking who's earned what
Click Prize report on the student prizes page to see every prize broken down by classroom — who's earned each one, and who's been handed it. Teachers see this just for their own classrooms.