KickUp and Learning Forward Academy hosted a conversation on what's working in New Teacher Mentorship programs. Here are some of the key moments and takeaways.

Before you recruit next year's mentors, pause. These three questions will determine whether your program actually works or just checks boxes.

KickUp's dynamic sharing lets district leaders build one dashboard and automatically deliver personalized, role-filtered views to every principal, coach, or department head — in a single click.

Literacy and math show up together in every strategic plan. But when you look at five years of PD data across districts nationwide, do the investments match the rhetoric?

KickUp heatmaps surface district-wide patterns instantly — and let you click into any data point to see the context behind it, without ever leaving the platform.

Districts are increasingly recognizing students as essential partners in shaping professional learning. When students share what helps them learn best, they're offering insights that can sharpen how schools invest in teacher development.

Everyone's talking about AI in education, but it's showing up in just 1% of district PD sessions. We tracked 290,000 professional learning sessions across five years to find out what's actually making it into educators' training—and what isn't.

KickUp Dashboards let you pull coaching, walkthroughs, PD, and evaluation data into a single, customizable view — without leaving the platform or touching a spreadsheet.

Your state just dropped a new mandate—literacy endorsements, trauma-informed training, SEL certification—and now you're racing against a hard deadline to prove every teacher is compliant. There's a better way to track this than the spreadsheet you're about to build.