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Where to start, what to layer in, and how it all fits across a school year.
Walkthroughs show what's happening in classrooms. Coaching logs show the support teachers are getting. KickUp Learning shows the professional learning they attend and how each session landed. Surveys complete the picture of the work you're doing in KickUp: they add what teachers say they need, whether all of that learning and support is reaching their students, and the conditions that help them do their best work and stay.
KickUp's survey templates are built around the data and decisions you need to plan support, show what's working, and keep strong educators. Each one is research-based, ready to preview and launch in KickUp Surveys, and comes with tips for launching it and using the results. Want the whole picture first? Jump to the year at a glance.
Built to be named. The needs assessment is about growth and reflection: teachers describe their own classroom in student-centered language and the support they want. Nothing in it grades their teaching or asks them to judge their leaders, colleagues or working conditions; those questions live in the anonymous "Conditions for Educator Success" survey. That's what lets responses sit on each teacher's profile, next to their coaching and walkthrough data, where coaches, principals and PD leads can use them to plan support.
Make it yours. The needs assessment is a practical tool, part of how you run your program. We recommend aligning its practices to the core practices on your walkthrough forms, framed in student-centered language, so what teachers report lines up with what leaders see. The template gives you a head start: it includes commonly used practices, cross-walked to the most common instructional frameworks. Then adjust the examples and shape it around how you actually support teachers.
Results come to life in clear data visualizations and powerful dashboards that you can filter by campus, role and other groups, compare over time, and share with every leader.
Results point straight to next steps: planning PD around what teachers actually need, and knowing where to model a practice, where to coach, where to use PLC time, and whose classrooms colleagues should visit. Just as important, the survey itself shows teachers they have a real say in their professional learning. Research on adult learning and on teacher retention points the same way: educators who have a voice in their own growth engage more deeply and are more likely to stay.
The needs assessment is most powerful when its results feed the work you already do in KickUp.
This is the higher-level, how-are-we-doing data that cabinets and boards want. It captures early warning signs related to retention, guides leadership decisions, and helps you assess how well your professional learning and support system is working. Keep the core questions as written to track your district year over year and, as more districts run it, against peers.
Results come to life in the same kind of dashboards: compare conditions across schools, see where staff who are unsure about staying lag behind their colleagues, and hear what staff want to protect and change, in their own words.
Run side by side, they let you compare schools: do schools where staff report stronger feedback, coaching and collaborative time also see more growth in teachers' practice? Already run a climate survey with another provider? Start with the needs assessment, or use the Conditions for Educator Success Survey as a deeper dive into how well your coaching, PLCs and professional learning system are working.
Two other templates help you improve specific parts of educator development when they're relevant to your work.
Because every template lives in KickUp alongside your walkthroughs, coaching and professional learning, each survey you run adds to one connected picture of educator growth instead of another spreadsheet.
Not ready for all of it? Mid-year is a great time to start. If you want to target support for the second half of the year, start building teacher voice into your professional learning, and identify potential teacher leaders whose classrooms colleagues can learn from, run the PL Needs Assessment. If you want to step back and examine the whole system, from leadership to growth and support to workload, the Conditions survey; it's always useful, and running it in winter gives you results before spring staffing and hiring decisions. Either way, treat this first round as your baseline and build the full cycle next fall.
Ready to start? Preview every template at pulse.kickup.co/surveys, or ask your KickUp CSM to walk you through them.
Schedule a demo with one of our friendly team members.
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