"Y'all are the Cadillac of PD management systems. It's not just that the product is better. It's all in one place. And your Customer Success is second to none, even after 7 years."
We weren’t planning to roll out all three tools at once, but once we saw the integration and reporting capabilities, it just made sense. It’s a completely different level of coherence.
KickUp gave us the structure and the 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.
We help districts build efficiency, visibility and coherence across all educator development efforts.
"I finished my payroll the fastest in the history of summer PD."
"To have a system that has everything they need in one place - very easy to use - has been transformational for our district."
"The overall impact of the data we get from KickUp is worth every penny."
"I've worked with KickUp for 5 years. You take our feedback and continue to make KickUp an impressive product that makes everything easier for us."
Frontline's strength is HR: absence management, recruiting, employee records. Educator development is one part of that larger platform, and the products were brought together through acquisition. Districts that switch describe the same pattern: the workarounds become the job. The manual pulls, the reconciliations, the reports you run just to answer a simple question. PD attendance gets reconciled by hand. Evaluation cycles can't be edited mid-year without starting over. Reporting is limited enough that answering basic questions about PD participation often requires a manual pull.
One district moved their full suite over from Frontline and called it "the easiest rollout in 37 years of education." Another freed up 75% of the time previously spent managing PD data. A third moved off Frontline for evaluation and now runs 17 simultaneous cycles, updating forms mid-year without rebuilding them.
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Why districts are leaving Frontline →
PowerSchool is best known for its operational systems: SIS, HRIS, and finance. The educator development modules sit on the same brand but not the same foundation. Each one was acquired and works independently, with no shared data between PD, coaching, and evaluation. Districts describe the experience as opening a file drawer, where you do a little work, put the folder back, and that's where it stays. The patterns are familiar: paying for three platforms that don't talk to each other, writing how-to guides just to explain how to register for PD, support that starts from scratch with every ticket. One district counted over 700 steps to add a single course.
One 21,000-employee district moved their professional learning to KickUp and stood it up in six weeks. Another replaced PowerSchool for evaluation and started building a connected system from induction through late career. A third replaced PowerSchool Perform alongside two other tools for less than they were paying before.
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The hidden cost of PowerSchool →
Whether you're working in Eduphoria, stitching together Google Forms and Sheets, or running coaching out of a shared drive — the pattern is similar. PD lives in one place, coaching in another, evaluations in a third. Data is difficult to bring together across teams, so HR, Curriculum, and Coaching often work from different views of the same district. Principals don't have direct visibility into their own buildings. And the appraisal workflows districts actually run — multi-evaluator, multi-cycle, role-specific — are hard to fit into tools that weren't designed for them.
One Texas district consolidated three separate tools onto KickUp and got HR, Curriculum, and Coaching working from the same picture. Another rebuilt their appraisal process and called the result "an Apple product" — simple on the surface, sophisticated underneath. A third district replaced paper sign-in sheets and manual reconciliation with a real system and saved 8,274 administrative hours in a single year.
What Google Forms is actually costing you →
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