About Kickboard

As one of K-12’s leading behavior management solutions, including the only evidence-based ESSA Level II platform, Kickboard enables educators to analyze student behaviors, interactions, and outcomes as they strive to support improved student outcomes.

Frequently Asked Questions

• I am a PowerSchool customer
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I am a PowerSchool customer

Q: What was announced?
We are very excited to announce that PowerSchool has completed the acquisition of Kickboard, a leading provider of K-12 education behavior management solutions that help educators effectively manage social-emotional learning (SEL) and multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) to help improve student well-being, school culture, and achieve more equitable outcomes.

Q: Who is Kickboard?
Kickboard supports schools’ and districts’ initiatives around SEL, positive behavior intervention and support (PBIS), and MTSS. They also provide professional development opportunities for educators that support increased positivity throughout an organization’s culture and climate.

Q: Why did PowerSchool acquire Kickboard?
This acquisition represents PowerSchool’s continued commitment to helping ensure students can get the support they need for future success as lifelong learners. Adding Kickboard to PowerSchool will provide a more comprehensive approach to understanding and supporting the whole child.

Q: How will this acquisition help K-12 schools and districts?
Addressing students’ social emotional well-being and mental health is critical, not just for schools and districts, but for our families and communities. Adding one of K-12’s leading behavior management solutions, including the only evidence-based ESSA Level II platform, to PowerSchool will provide a more comprehensive approach to understanding and supporting the whole child.

The need for SEL-focused support has been on the rise even prior to the pandemic with 70% of principals identifying it as a priority in 2019 – up from 43% just two years earlier. And, as teachers strive to address unfinished learning from the past 18 months, while simultaneously helping students readjust to live instruction, the need for solutions that support students’ social-emotional needs is greater than ever before, as highlighted in a recent Department of Education report.

Adding Kickboard to PowerSchool’s award-winning Unified Classroom^® will enable educators to securely input and analyze student behaviors, interactions, and outcomes by connecting one of K-12’s leading behavior management solutions with industry-leading student information, learning management, professional learning, and data analytics systems.

Q: What does this mean for PowerSchool’s and Kickboard’s products and customers?
When combined with PowerSchool solutions, educators will benefit from further integration that allows them to adopt a more comprehensive approach to assessing and analyzing student behavior in the moment. Specifically, educators that use both PowerSchool and Kickboard can benefit in the following ways:

• Centralize all behavior management and reporting: Educators can keep track of all student-focused initiatives including SEL, PBIS, MTSS, overall student performance, and professional development programs in one place.
• Full and clear visibility to the whole child: With a comprehensive view of social and emotional well-being and mental health data, combined with student performance, academic outcomes, demographic data, and attendance, educators will be able to better support their students’ overall achievement, and preparation for life after high school.
• Save teachers’ time with integration between behavior management and their PowerSchool solutions: Single-sign-on (SSO) from PowerSchool Schoology Learning makes it easier for educators to influence and track their interactions with students. Data integration with PowerSchool SIS and PowerSchool Performance Matters ensures data quality and removes the need for manual data imports and exports.

Q: How does Kickboard currently integrate with PowerSchool’s solutions?
Kickboard currently integrates with PowerSchool’s suite of solutions in multiple ways:

• SSO for staff from Unified Classroom^® Schoology Learning
• Automatically connect behavior incidents from Kickboard to behavior compliance reporting in PowerSchool SIS (incident management and log entries)
• Sync behavior ratios from Kickboard to Baseball Card reporting in Unified Classroom^® Performance Matters

Q: What is the combined PowerSchool and Kickboard product roadmap?
While additional details will be made available in 2022, please know that customers can expect further integration between Kickboard and PowerSchool. For example, educators will be able to view student data from Kickboard alongside additional student data in Unified Insights, where educators have access to predictive analytics and AI/ML technology to better meet the needs of students.

I am a Kickboard customer

Q: What was announced?
We are very excited to announce that PowerSchool has completed the acquisition of Kickboard, a leading provider of K-12 education behavior management solutions that helps educators more effectively manage social-emotional (SEL) and multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) to help improve student well-being, school culture, and achieve more equitable outcomes.

Q: Who is PowerSchool?
Founded over 20 years ago, PowerSchool is proud to be a leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education. PowerSchool connects students, teachers, administrators, and parents, with the shared goal of improving student outcomes. From the office to the classroom to the home, it helps schools and districts efficiently manage state reporting and related compliance, special education, finance, human resources, talent, registration, attendance, funding, learning, instruction, grading, assessments and analytics in one unified platform. PowerSchool supports over 45 million students globally and more than 13,000 customers, including over 90 of the top 100 districts by student enrollment in the United States, and sells solutions in over 90 countries.

PowerSchool’s K-12 solutions include:

• Unified Classroom: Integrated classroom tools that simplify teaching and learning by connecting Learning Management (Schoology Learning), Assessment (Performance Matters), and Special Programs information all in one place. And now, by adding Kickboard to PowerSchool’s Unified Classroom^® solution, educators can more securely input and analyze student behaviors, interactions, and outcomes all in one place.
• Student Information Systems: Scalable and modern platforms that cover all operational needs including scheduling, attendance, compliance, and faculty management.
• Enrollment: Flexible platform that meets a wide variety of admission, choice, enrollment and registration requirements regardless of size or type of school or district.
• Unified Operations: Streamlined solutions focused on financial and human resources management to drive operational efficiency.
• Unified Talent: Solutions to attract, hire, develop and retain high-quality educators and staff for districts and schools.
• Unified Insights: Brings together a school district’s disparate data sets into a single set of dashboards to track, manage, and monitor all aspects of student, school and administrative data and metrics.
• Unified Classroom: Focuses on providing educators, students, and parents with tools that help students reach their future goals while promoting overall college, career, and life readiness.

Q: Why did PowerSchool acquire Kickboard?
This acquisition represents PowerSchool’s continued commitment to helping ensure students can get the support they need for future success as lifelong learners. Adding Kickboard to PowerSchool will provide a more comprehensive approach to understanding and supporting the whole child.

Q: Will I need to add any PowerSchool products to access my existing Kickboard products?
PowerSchool remains committed to open standards-based and out-of-the-box integrations, and you can continue to use your existing solutions, as there is no requirement to switch to or add any additional PowerSchool solutions. Schools and districts that do use PowerSchool solutions can expect to see further integration in the near future (such as simplified user access and data integration).

Q: How will this acquisition help K-12 schools and districts?
Addressing students’ social and emotional well-being and mental health is critical, not just for schools and districts, but for our families and communities. Adding one of K-12’s leading behavior management solutions, including the only evidence-based ESSA Level II platform, to PowerSchool, will provide a more comprehensive approach to understanding and supporting the whole child.

The need for SEL-focused support has been on the rise even prior to the pandemic with 70% of principals identifying it as a priority in 2019 – up from 43% just two years earlier. And, as teachers strive to address unfinished learning from the past 18 months, while simultaneously helping students re-adjust to live instruction, the need for solutions that support students’ social-emotional needs is greater than ever before, as highlighted in a recent Department of Education report.

Adding Kickboard to PowerSchool’s award-winning Unified Classroom^® will enable educators to securely input and analyze student behaviors, interactions, and outcomes by connecting one of K-12’s leading behavior management solutions with industry-leading student information, learning management, professional learning, and data analytics systems.

Q: What does this mean for PowerSchool’s and Kickboard’s products and customers?
When combined with PowerSchool solutions, educators will benefit from further integration that allows them to adopt a more comprehensive approach to assessing and analyzing student behavior in the moment. Specifically, educators that use both PowerSchool and Kickboard can benefit in the following ways:

• Centralize all behavior management and reporting: Educators can keep track of all student-focused initiatives including SEL, PBIS, MTSS, overall student performance, and professional development programs in one place.
• Full and clear visibility to the whole child: With a comprehensive view of social and emotional well-being and mental health data, combined with student performance, academic outcomes, demographic data, and attendance, educators will be able to better support their students’ overall achievement, and preparation for life after high school.
• Save teachers’ time with integration between behavior management and their PowerSchool solutions: Single-sign-on (SSO) from PowerSchool Schoology Learning makes it easier for educators to influence and track their interactions with students. Data integration with PowerSchool SIS and PowerSchool Performance Matters ensures data quality and removes the need for manual data imports and exports.

Kickboard customers will also benefit from additional investment in their platform as well as access to PowerSchool’s award-winning services and customer support teams.

Q: How does Kickboard currently integrate with PowerSchool’s solutions?
Kickboard currently integrates with PowerSchool’s suite of solutions in multiple ways:

• SSO for staff from Unified Classroom^® Schoology Learning
• Automatically connect behavior incidents from Kickboard to behavior compliance reporting in PowerSchool SIS (incident management and log entries)
• Sync behavior ratios from Kickboard to Baseball Card reporting in Unified Classroom^® Performance Matters

Q: What is the combined PowerSchool and Kickboard product roadmap?
While additional details will be made available in 2022, please know that customers can expect further integration between Kickboard and PowerSchool. For example, educators will be able to view student data from Kickboard alongside additional student data in Unified Insights, where educators have access to predictive analytics and AI/ML technology to better meet the needs of students.

Q: How does PowerSchool plan to support Kickboard customers?
Our focus during this transition is on you, our customer. We will work hard to ensure

complete continuity when working with our combined organization. The Kickboard team will be joining PowerSchool, and you can continue to work with your existing customer success manager, services, and support contacts. We strive for customer excellence—so our team will work diligently to achieve the highest levels of innovation, support, and services going forward.

Q: Will the same people who support my Kickboard products today continue to deliver support?
The Kickboard team will be joining PowerSchool, and customers can expect very little change to the individuals they have been used to working with. You can continue to work with your existing customer success manager, services, and support contacts.

I’m not a customer, but want to learn more

If you’d like to find out more about how PowerSchool and Kickboard can benefit your K-12 school or district, contact us at:​

• 877-873-1550​
• sales@powerschool.com
• powerschool.com/company/contact​