About Us

The Kick-Off Program™ was founded in 2001 by lifelong educator, Lee Lonzo, to help schools around the country better transition their incoming students by using upper-class students from within the school as role models and leaders for every single incoming student. Starting in just Indiana, with one school, the KO Program has now worked with over 300 middle schools and high schools across the United States.

The Kick-Off Transition Program is a comprehensive transition, orientation and mentoring program welcoming new students and their parents to middle school and high school. Our experienced Kick-Off Trainers have worked with hundreds of schools all over the country and over 150,000 kids have gone through a Kick-Off Orientation Day, with that number growing every year.

By training upper-class mentors and running interactive orientation days right before the first day of school, the Kick-Off Transition Program creates positive year-long connections between upper-classmen and incoming students. This comprehensive year-long process helps ease the transition for new students and their parents.

The Kick-Off Transition Program creates a more spirited student body, promotes school safety, and creates positive and meaningful connections for every incoming student. This process opens channels of communication that make students feel more comfortable in a foreign environment and has proven to reduce school violence and bullying. The program's effects are still felt long after the Kick-Off Orientation Day, as the connections between the new student and mentor blossoms into a positive relationship throughout the year.

The Kick-Off Transition and Mentoring Program has been implemented in suburban, rural, and inner city schools and has worked with schools that have incoming classes ranging from 60 to 1200 students.

If you would like to find out how your school can become a member of the nationwide network of Kick-Off Schools, please click this link to contact us.

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