New York's Newark Central School District (CSD) was striving to create a professional learning system that was strategic, data-driven, and impactful. With KickUp, Newark CSD brought everything together—professional development, coaching, and walkthroughs—into one unified system. The district now leverages real-time data to track instructional improvement, ensure professional learning aligns with school goals, and make informed decisions about how to best support teachers and students.

North Dakota Retaining, Inspiring, and Supporting Educators (ND RISE) operates the state’s structured mentoring program, providing support to first- and second-year teachers across 170 districts. Facing rapid program growth and increasing accountability demands, ND RISE uses KickUp to track engagement, measure impact, and advocate for funding.

Struggling with a Professional Learning Management System (PLMS) from a large company that wasn’t keeping up with the district’s needs, California’s eighth-largest school district was bogged down with payroll inefficiencies and teacher disengagement. In just one year, KickUp helped transform operations — cutting payroll processing from weeks to hours, vastly improving user experience, and boosting teacher attendance across the district.

Missouri’s Columbia Public Schools needed a system to track and assess the professional growth resulting from the district’s instructional support activities. KickUp provided an instructional inventory to gather data and feedback from informal walkthroughs and coaching, plus an Impact Cycle-aligned hub for coaching supports — and that’s just the start.

Missouri’s fastest-growing school district adopted KickUp to manage the entire ecosystem of teacher support — and expanded both learning offerings and educator satisfaction along the way.

A large Southern California school district needed a professional learning platform that could help its teachers seamlessly attend and receive credit as well as compensation for ongoing development. By adopting KickUp just before the COVID-19 pandemic, Corona-Norco USD was able to keep professional learning on track while students and teachers were at home – and has continued to build upon that foundation since returning to campus.

Having access to all of their professional learning data in one place has enabled Virginia's Frederick County Public Schools to make rapid adjustments to professional learning, track information longitudinally, and create maps of teacher progress for a culture of personalized learning.

Dr. Joya Holmes, Executive Director of Professional Learning at Rock Hill Schools, talks about how Rock Hill Schools transformed their PD programming and connected teacher practice to student achievement through data.

How one Missouri district uses KickUp to track coaches’ time and feedback so that they, in turn, can better support the district’s teachers in keeping up with students’ evolving needs.

“Our ultimate goal is program improvement. We are here to solve problems and serve people.” By understanding when, how and where new-teacher mentors are spending their time, this Texas school district is creating an environment for both retention and growth.

Switching to KickUp helped North Carolina’s Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools streamline the entire professional learning process for teachers. Outdated systems were replaced by a user-friendly way to connect teachers with tailored professional development, integrated with classroom walkthrough and mentoring data. The results? A nearly 20%+ jump in new teacher retention, same-day state CEU credit, and a comprehensive view of educator growth.

Performance evaluation is a touchy subject in K-12 education. Done without care, it can come off, at best, as a laborious but mandatory task—and at worst, as a case of institutionalized “gotcha.” But with a blend of trust-building, intentional processes, and actionable data, one Missouri school district is moving from a culture of simple compliance to continuous growth.

As COVID-19 began shuttering school districts across the country, Fontana Unified School District had just started rolling out its 1:1 technology program. The new tools have given the district’s 36,000 students greater access than ever before to distance learning — but the district had to figure out how to handle the transition.

Individualized PD for nearly 2,000 teachers is no small task — but the rewards are worth it. Read how Lubbock ISD boosted student achievement and campus ratings through real-time classroom practice improvement, ensuring that 75% of the district’s students attend an A- or B-rated school in just three years.

In 2015, San Antonio-area Comal Independent School District launched Comal U, a new multi-day PD institute providing summer learning hours for each of the district's 1,300 teachers. KickUp worked with Comal to build out a custom event management and credit tracking system aligning with both state policy requirements and Comal’s own curriculum. With the time saved seamlessly managing, tracking and coordinating a high-volume event series, Comal U added 15 more sessions the very first year — and counting.

At the onset of an ambitious $2m 1:1 technology initiative, St. Vrain Valley Schools needed to both provide evidence of impact and maximize teachers' proficiency with the new tools. Using KickUp, St. Vrain was able to track progress during the year, make real-time changes, and accelerate professional learning by identifying and replicating success across the system.