Service Awards The Deadline for 2025/2026 awards is February 19th, 2026. Please contact Synthiea.Kaldi@seattlearch.org for assistance

Years of Service Awards for Catholic school staff are given out annually to those being recognized for significant years serving our Catholic Schools. It is the responsibility of each school to submit names of individuals receiving awards. We STRONGLY recommend polling your staff on how many years they’ve been in Catholic education. This includes any school position, in any location, even other Archdioceses! Years do not have to be consecutive. Years before break + years after = total.

Award Recipient names are collected by the below online form. With our new logo, we will be putting in one order and the awards will be ready for pick up at the All Principals meeting May 7, 2026. If you missed someone, please reach out to Synthiea directly.

    2026 Winter Service Awards

  • Certificate of Appreciation 2025

Please see the bottom of this page for the complete service award schedule.

Seventh Grade Student Leadership Awards – The Deadline for 2024/2025 awards has passed. Please contact Synthiea.Kaldi@seattlearch.org for assistance.

Student Leadership Awards are presented to 7th grade students at our participating Catholic schools. There are four areas of leadership that can receive recognition: Academic, Co-curricular, Faith, and Community Service. Schools or regions can organize a ceremony for the seventh graders to present these awards to those being recognized. Pins and ribbons for each category are available upon request.

We are again offering 2 styles of certificate, an updated Classic style with an added frame, and a new, more Modern style.

  • All certificates available on Canva!

      Years of Service Awards

      We are proud to announce the expansion of our service awards program to honor teachers and staff with 1, 5, 10 and 15 years of service to Catholic Schools. This expands the previous program which started at 20 years of service and then continued at periods of 5 years.

      This expansion consists of a new line of custom pins for all service milestones. We hope that teachers and staff will proudly wear these on their school lanyards/IDs.

      We encourage schools to regularly honor the service of their teachers and staff. ESPECIALLY in years 1, 3, 5, 7 and 10 when, teachers are statistically most likely to leave the profession. To improve teacher and staff retention, we urge schools to move their service awards ceremony to either Catholic Schools Week in Jan/Feb, or Teacher Appreciation Week which is the first full week of May.

      Below is a list of years and the associated award.

      Year 1   Antique Gold Pin

      Year 5    Full Color on White Pin

      Year 10   Antique Silver Pin

      Year 15   Black and Gray Pin

      Year 20   White and Blue Pin + Christmas Ornament/Sun Catcher

      Year 25   Silver Pin + Red Apple Bell Award

      Year 30   Full Color on Gray Pin + Crystal Apple Award

      Year 35   White and Gray Pin + Framed certificate signed by Archbishop and Superintendent

      Year 40   Gold Pin* + Pewter Bell Award

      Year 45   Gold Pin* + Framed certificate signed by Archbishop and Superintendent

      * The current Gold Pins will be replaced with Gold pins similar to the 25 year silver pin as the stock runs out.