KickUp connects PL, appraisals, coaching, and Bluebonnet walks in one modern platform — so leaders get the insight to grow teaching practice, faster.
Replace four systems with one, and arm leaders with data to improve performance.
Reclaim hours back, so that you can focus on high quality professional learning.
Simplify the evaluation process, and ensure a consistently high bar for all staff.
Texas leaders are juggling disconnected systems for appraisals, PL, and HQIM implementation
Staff need a step-by-step guide just to register for a professional learning session.
Leaders are spending their evenings working on appraisals, and are still behind.
Bluebonnet walk data lives in a spreadsheet no one fully trusts.
You can't answer "is our PD working?" — because the answer is spread across four systems and spreadsheets.
Manage your PL, without emails filling your inbox
Run flexible appraisals for any staff role
When principals spend their evenings with multiple Eduphoria tabs open, the instructional thinking gets crowded out.
KickUp cuts observation documentation time by up to 80%. The feedback gets sharper because principals aren't exhausted by the time they get to the part that matters.
How one AP got her evenings back →
“It's not just that the product is better — it's that it's all in one place. We replaced three tools with one, and it actually costs us less.”
Bastrop ISD was running Eduphoria for PL, Google Forms for coaching, and PowerSchool Perform for evaluations.
They replaced all three with KickUp — and saved an estimated 6,599 admin hours in the first year. PL events that used to take months to coordinate now take minutes.
Read Bastrop ISD's Story →
Most Texas districts are running walkthroughs in Google Forms or paper logs. That works until someone asks you to see patterns across 25 campuses, or prove to TEA that fidelity is there.
KickUp gives this work a home, ensuring every principal has the same look-fors, rich feedback tools, and dynamic dashboards that make the data usable without a spreadsheet.
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When appraisals, 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 Bluebonnet data, coaching records, PD participation, and T-TESS trends live in the same system, the conversations change. You stop spending leadership meetings getting everyone on the same page, and start using that time to actually move on what the data is telling you.
Lubbock ISD used that connected picture to take 75% of their students into A or B-rated campuses in three years. When TIA documentation comes up, the data is already there.
KickUp replaces the educator-development side of Eduphoria — teacher and staff appraisals, walkthroughs, and PD management.
KickUp is a modern, data-rich system purpose-built for educator development, and that shows up everywhere in the experience. Appraisers get AI tools that timestamp observation notes and tag evidence to your framework as they write, cutting scripting and feedback time significantly and letting them stay present in the room. Leaders see exactly where evaluation progress stands across every campus without running a report, and run T-TESS, TPESS, and any other framework side by side. Because coaching, walkthroughs, PD, and evaluation all run on one data layer, the reporting answers questions in real time — including whether the Bluebonnet walks your observers are capturing connect to the coaching and PD that follow. Bastrop ISD made the move and now links T-TESS, coaching, and professional learning district-wide. Read their story →
KickUp lets districts build or adapt look-fors aligned to Bluebonnet's fidelity-of-implementation framework, so observers start capturing classroom data without building forms from scratch. They walk in with context on each teacher and walk out with clear, non-evaluative feedback — AI timestamps notes and tags evidence as they go, so the write-up is done before they leave the room. From there, leaders can see implementation fidelity across every campus, spot where teachers need coaching or PLC support, and track whether practice is deepening over time.
KickUp Learning, Growth and Coaching & Walks run on a single data set, with no exports, no syncing, no separate logins.
At the individual level, a teacher's PD hours, coaching engagement, and evaluation data are all visible in one place. At the district level, leaders can see patterns across schools, roles, and programs, spotting where support is concentrated, where it's missing, and whether it's moving the needle on performance. You can build a dashboard once, share it with all your principals or coaches, and each person automatically sees only what's relevant to them. That complete picture — from individual teacher to district-wide trend — is what becomes possible when the data was never siloed to begin with.
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 Eduphoria, 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 changes and your use of the platform deepens, KickUp continues to provide check-ins, new feature training, and refresher support throughout the partner.
KickUp supports any instructional framework —T-TESS & T-PESS, Get Better Faster, or one your district built itself — across any staff type: teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators, support staff. Districts start from KickUp's best-practice templates or build from scratch, and can make changes mid-year without IT involvement.
Evaluation cycles, coaching forms, walkthrough look-fors, and PD tags can all be aligned to the same frameworks, so every touchpoint is pulling in the same direction.
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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