 In May of 2019, she gave the commencement address for the School of Education and received an honorary degree, the Doctor of Humane Letters, from the University of San Francisco for her work both in the city of San Francisco and nationwide.Calegari has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, the William Coe Award for study at Stanford University and the Andrew Mellon Fellowship.In 2007, Calegari received Edutopia's 2007 Daring Dozen award.