KickUp Foundations gives coaches, principals, and directors a clear picture of who's getting support, what's showing up in classrooms, and where to focus next.
"KickUp gave us the structure and flexibility to meet every school where they are. Before, we were building PD around gut feelings. Now, we're building it around real-time data from classrooms."
Districts trade in their patchwork systems for visibility and coherence across instructional leaders.
Build flexible forms around what your district cares about— Danielson, Get Better Faster, content-specific look-fors, or your own framework.
Create coaching logs and structured coaching cycles that align to those same focus areas—so you can see whether classroom support is hitting the mark.
Capture data on any device in just a few clicks. Auto-save means nothing gets lost. And flexible permissions ensure the data flows automatically to whoever needs it—no extra steps, no duplicate entry.
Real-time dashboards show you exactly:
Filter by school, coach, focus area, or coaching cycle to spot patterns and gaps. No more chasing people down for updates or waiting on manual reports.
KickUp Foundations is a coaching and walkthrough management platform built for K-12 school districts. It gives coaching directors, instructional coaches, and school leaders one place to plan, log, and track coaching cycles and classroom walkthroughs — so support is organized, visible, and connected to what's actually happening in instruction.
KickUp Foundations supports a wide range of programs — 1:1 instructional coaching, new teacher mentoring, PLCs, content-specific coaching, and classroom walkthroughs. Whether your district uses Diane Sweeney's or Jim Knight's Coaching model, Danielson-aligned walkthroughs, or a framework you've built yourself, KickUp Foundations can be configured to match — without needing IT to set it up.
Coaches log sessions in just a few clicks — notes auto-save, action items stay organized and the full history of every coaching relationship is right there before the next conversation. No duplicate entry, no hunting through email threads for context, no manually updating multiple people after every visit. Coaches and teachers can also collaborate directly in KickUp — shared activity feeds, commenting, artifact sharing, and action items keep everyone on the same page without a single follow-up email.
KickUp Foundations gives mentoring program coordinators the structure and visibility to run mentoring at scale — tracking mentor engagement, documenting support cycles, and generating data that shows whether new teachers are actually being supported rather than just signed off on.
ND RISE, which runs a state-wide mentoring program across 170 districts in North Dakota, used KickUp to scale from a fragmented Google Forms and spreadsheet process to one central place to track everything — ultimately securing $4.5M in program funding by showing legislators clear, data-backed evidence of program impact. Read their story →
Foundations gives coaching directors real-time visibility into who's being coached, how often, by whom, and in what focus areas — across the entire district. Dashboards show how coaching time is being used and where gaps exist, making it easy to answer tough questions from cabinet leaders or board members with data instead of anecdotes.
When combined with walkthrough data, directors can also show whether coaching is actually translating into changes in classroom practice. Rachel Roepke at Bastrop ISD summed it up well: "We used to take people's word for it that they were doing walks or coaching. Now we have data to back it up — and to help support where it's needed." Read their story →
Principals and administrators can log classroom walkthroughs quickly on any device, using customizable forms aligned to district or school-specific priorities. AI-assisted note-taking helps observers capture what they're seeing in real time — organized automatically so feedback is faster to write and easier for teachers to act on.
Walkthrough data flows into dashboards that show instructional trends across classrooms, schools, and focus areas — so leaders can spot where support is needed and calibrate how consistently different observers are rating instruction. Crucially, walkthroughs are kept clearly separate from formal evaluations, so teachers experience them as supportive rather than judgmental.
KickUp Foundations includes flexible permissions so each person sees only what they need to. Coaches can keep certain notes private, principals can access relevant coaching data without seeing everything, and teachers can see precisely what's needed. The goal is a system that coaches trust and use — not one that makes them feel watched.
Districts that track coaching in spreadsheets or disconnected forms quickly run into the same problems: coaches are doing double data entry, coordinators can't see what's actually happening across the district, and there's no clean way to answer "is coaching working?" KickUp Foundations eliminates that by giving every level of the organization — coaches, principals, and directors — a structured system with real data that doesn't require manual assembly. Colorado Springs D11 went from no structured coaching observations to 2,000+ classroom walkthroughs in three months, with 95% adoption across 56 schools. As Dr. Carole Frye, Chief of Instruction, put it: "Before, we were building PD around gut feelings. Now we're building it around real-time data from classrooms." Read their story →
For districts using tools that only handle coaching, the bigger difference is what happens when that data connects to PD and evaluation. When all three are in the same platform, you stop asking "what support has this teacher received?" and start knowing — without pulling records from three different places.
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