Spend your time developing educators, not managing software.
KickUp is the modern PL, Coaching, Walkthroughs, and Evaluation system that saves you hours each week and finally connects the dots between PL and educator performance.
KickUp is the modern PL, Coaching, Walkthroughs, and Evaluation system that saves you hours each week and finally connects the dots between PL and educator performance.
Track how your instructional framework is landing in classrooms, and connect it to coaching and PL.
Reclaim hours back, so that you can focus on high quality professional learning.
Stop filing evaluations away, and start using them to drive real teacher growth.
California districts are juggling outdated systems and disconnected data.
Staff need a step-by-step guide just to register for PD or finish an evaluation.
Reconciling PD attendance and credits by-hand is somebody's never-ending job.
New teacher mentoring lives on spreadsheets, cut off from coaching and PL.
You can't answer "is our PD working?" — because the answer is spread across four systems.
Manage your PL, without emails filling your inbox
Run flexible evaluations for any staff role
Districts report cutting PD Management time by up to 75% after switching to KickUp.
KickUp Learning was designed so staff can find sessions, register, confirm attendance, and pull their own transcripts, whether that's for salary schedule advancement, induction hours, or their own records.
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When principals spend their evenings with multiple tabs open, the instructional thinking gets crowded out.
KickUp cuts observation documentation time by up to 80% with notes already tagged to your CSTP domains as your write them. The feedback gets sharper because principals aren't exhausted by the time they get to the part that matters.
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When evaluations, coaching, walkthroughs, and PL live in siloed systems, keeping a pulse on what's happening and whether it's making a difference is harder than it should be.
When your PL calendar, attendance records, and payroll data live in the same system, the conversations change. You stop spending hours chasing down who registered for what, cross-checking attendance against pay, or explaining to a teacher why their certificate never showed up.
Twin Rivers ran 440 PL sessions in a single summer, and finished payroll in a single day instead of the usual 11th-hour scramble. When a session needs to change, the data is already there.
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Yes, for PD management, coaching, and evaluations, the educator-development side of both platforms. Their hiring, onboarding, and absence management tools are separate products, so most districts keep those and run KickUp alongside them.
Districts that switch consistently point to the same things: a modern, intuitive platform, PD search that actually works, and dashboards that answer questions without a manual report.
KickUp is a commercial partner with the Danielson Group, and also supports the California Standards for the Teaching Profession (CSTP), locally built frameworks, or a blend of the two. One California district rewrote its entire evaluation document to cross-walk CSTP language with its own locally defined teacher attributes, using KickUp as the system of record for the new framework.
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KickUp gives PL leaders district-level data in minutes instead of weeks, which partners are working, which aren't, and where PL isn't reaching every school site. Natomas Unified used that visibility to decide which vendor contracts to renew and which to renegotiate mid-year, instead of waiting for the next budget cycle to find out.
Hear from Natomas USD: "KickUp has made us more strategic in our PL planning" →
Yes. KickUp's data visualizations show average ratings by component across evaluators, making rater drift visible at a glance, whether you're calibrating against Danielson, the CSTP, or a locally built rubric. Leaders can spot calibration gaps without pulling manual reports, and use the data to drive calibration conversations with their teams.
For onsite training, calibration workshops, and consulting services on Framework implementation, The Danielson Group offers those directly. We're happy to facilitate introductions as useful.
Most districts are surprised by how smooth the transition is. From the moment you sign, you have a dedicated Customer Success Manager and an onboarding specialist working alongside your district. KickUp handles the heavy lifting: configuration, data sync, SSO setup, and training, in close collaboration with your team. If you're migrating historical data from Frontline, PowerSchool, or another system, your CSM works alongside your district's technical team and KickUp's technical integration team to determine what to import and ensure the right people have access to the right data from day one. K
ickUp typically kicks off 4 to 8 weeks before your target go-live date, with weekly working sessions throughout. Timelines can be accelerated or extended based on your needs.
Hear from Twin Rivers: “KickUp was the easiest implementation I’ve ever done.”
Yes. KickUp is SOC 2 Type II certified, FERPA compliant, and WCAG 2.0 AA accessible. All data is hosted on AWS in U.S.-based data centers and encrypted at rest and in transit. KickUp has maintained 99.98%+ uptime over the last two years.
Full documentation is available at trust.kickup.co.
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