Hilight provides an easy-to-use digital platform for school staff to share and track positive recognition moments daily. This tool helps reinforce school values and strengthens team relationships through customized feedback mechanisms. The platform offers data dashboards that visualize staff impact, aiming to boost morale and improve retention rates.
Funding
$1M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
K‑12 schools often lack a systematic way to acknowledge daily teacher and staff achievements, making it difficult to reinforce school values, capture effective teaching practices, and maintain staff morale and retention.
Solution
Hilight offers a cloud‑based platform that enables administrators and peers to post real‑time recognitions tied to customized school values. Each highlight is logged in a searchable feed, allowing educators to see which strategies are working and how they align with the school’s mission. The system aggregates these data points into personal and school‑wide dashboards that visualize progress, connectedness, and impact over time. Built‑in reward mechanisms let schools assign meaningful incentives, reinforcing a culture of appreciation without adding administrative overhead. By surfacing positive moments daily, Hilight helps schools create a data‑driven narrative of staff success that supports retention and continuous improvement.
Target Audience
Primary customers are K‑12 school districts, individual schools, and district administrators who manage teachers, support staff, and leadership teams seeking to improve staff engagement and capture effective instructional practices.
Features
- One‑click recognition posting with optional tags for core values, teaching strategies, or student outcomes
- Customizable value library so schools can align highlights with their unique mission and vision
- Automated reward engine that issues digital badges, points, or gift‑card incentives for recognized staff
- Asset‑based analytics dashboards delivering individual impact scores and aggregate morale metrics
- searchable highlight feed with filters for date range, department, or value category to surface best practices
- Role‑based access controls ensuring administrators can view school‑wide data while staff see personal dashboards only
- Secure, HIPAA‑compliant cloud storage with end‑to‑end encryption for all recognition data
- Integration hooks (API/Webhooks) for LMS or HRIS systems to sync recognition events with existing workflows