The workarounds feel normal until they're gone.
Then you wonder how you ever worked that way.
"It's exceptionally user-friendly and does exactly what it says it's going to do. The interface is modern and beautiful—it doesn't look like it's from 1985. Staff feel professional when they're using it. Combined with outstanding customer service, it's exactly what we needed."
KickUp was built from the ground up for one job: helping instructional leaders connect professional development, coaching, and evaluation in a single platform. No acquisitions stitched together. No legacy architecture. Just one connected system designed for educator development, not bolted onto an SIS — and it shows in the experience, the data, and the pace of innovation.
Districts that made the switch say the same thing about where they started.
Your district writes how-to guides just to explain how to register for PD.
Conference registration requires a written instruction guide or a dedicated tool.
You're paying for three platforms and none of them talk to each other.
HR, curriculum, and coaching each have a different picture of the same teacher.
Your support tickets get closed. Your next ticket starts from scratch — because no one on the other end knows your district or what you've already tried.
You know what you're spending on PD. You can't easily show what it's doing for educators.
KickUp replaces the educator development modules in PowerSchool — PD management, instructional coaching, walkthroughs, and teacher evaluation. It does not replace PowerSchool's SIS, HR, or payroll functions. Most districts run KickUp alongside PowerSchool for student data, and find the two work together cleanly. KickUp also integrates with other platforms districts commonly use, including Red Rover and Canvas by Instructure.
KickUp Learning, Growth and Foundations run on a single data set — no exports, no syncing, no separate logins. That means a teacher's PD hours, coaching observations, and evaluation ratings are visible in one place, and leaders can connect them in a single dashboard.
KickUp's reporting is built around three core ideas:
1. All your data in one view: administrators can build exactly the story they need using any data in the system, connecting coaching, PD, and performance in a single pane of glass.
2. Shared visibility: build a dashboard once, share it with all your principals or coaches, and each person automatically sees only what's relevant — one dashboard to maintain, not fifty.
3. Insight and action: spot trends, compare groups, and drill into what's behind any number to answer any question in seconds.
KickUp is framework-agnostic and fully configurable — whether your district is using Danielson, T-TESS, Get Better Faster or a custom framework. KickUp provides best practice templates that districts can adapt as a starting point, or build from scratch to match exactly how their system evaluates and supports educators.
Once configured, coaching, walkthroughs, evaluation, and PD are all aligned to the same framework — so leaders can see how a teacher is developing against the same indicators across every touchpoint, not just in formal evaluations. Professional development can be tagged to the same framework, making it possible to directly connect the PD a teacher is receiving to the areas targeted for growth in their evaluation.
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 PowerSchool or another system, your CSM works alongside your district's technical team and KickUp's technical integration team to determine what to import, format historical records, and ensure the right people have access to the right data from day one.
KickUp typically kicks off 4–8 weeks before your target go-live date, with weekly working sessions throughout. Timelines can be accelerated or extended based on your needs.
Training doesn't end at launch — as your team grows and your use of the platform deepens, KickUp continues to provide check-ins, new feature training, and refresher support throughout the partnership.
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KickUp syncs with your SIS or HRIS to keep staff information current without manual work. Staff data syncs nightly — automatically adding new staff, updating roles and building assignments, and removing users who have left. For single sign-on, KickUp supports Google, Microsoft Entra ID, Classlink, Rapid Identity, and any SAML-capable identity provider. No ports need to be opened on your district firewall.
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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