Principals shouldn't spend their evenings categorizing notes against the framework line by line. KickUp's AI-enabled scripting tool clears that work.

A letter from KickUp co-founder Jeremy Rogoff introducing Instructional Leader Intelligence. On the documentation burden weighing down principals, coaches, and PD leaders — and the conviction behind a new direction for instructional leadership.

Averages make PD look healthier than it is. Inside the same district, some staff get a week of structured learning a year — others get almost none. The question isn't how much PD you're offering. It's who's getting it.

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.