Headteachers and senior leaders
Providing benchmarked engagement insight as lead indicators for retention, attendance, and outcomes.
Trusted data. Timely action.
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Balancing pressure with lasting impact
How TEP helps
Leading with insights
“As a leader, TEP helps me to see the bigger picture and put it all together. It's definitely helped me to confirm what I think”.
Elizabeth Lambe, Headteacher, St Augustine’s Primary School
How TEP helps headteachers
Use engagement data as a lead indicator to spot pupils at risk of poor attendance early.
Understand how effectively your school culture supports inclusion and wellbeing and act early before issues escalate.
Understand how your staff are feeling and spot early signs of disengagement to reduce absence and retain your best people.
Straight A’s in satisfaction
Read what school leaders are saying about us.
"At a Trust level, it has strategically informed our leaders' sustained improvement planning in many different areas."
"It helped us see which groups were really struggling — we wouldn’t have seen that just from attendance or behaviour."
First place to look for school improvement
The Engagement Platform brings together research-led surveys, reliable insights, and leadership support to drive real change.
Engagement predicts attendance
- Spot risks early: Use engagement data as a lead indicator to identify pupils likely to experience attendance issues before patterns form.
- Understand the causes: Uncover the underlying factors, from belonging to peer relationships and family influence, that drive disengagement.
- Target interventions: Focus support where it will have the greatest impact, improving attendance and re-engaging learners across the school.
Culture that supports inclusion and wellbeing
- See the full picture: Understand how effectively your school culture supports inclusion, belonging, and wellbeing across pupils and staff.
- Act before issues grow: Use live engagement data to identify early signs of isolation or low confidence before they impact learning or behaviour.
- Build stronger connections: Strengthen relationships, celebrate diversity, and create a culture where every individual feels valued and supported.
Retention indicators
- Stay connected: Understand how your staff are feeling and what’s driving engagement across different roles and departments.
- Spot early warning signs: Identify emerging issues such as workload pressure or low morale before they affect wellbeing or performance.
- Retain your best people: Use these insights to improve support, reduce absence, and build a motivated, committed team.
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Frequently asked questions
Find out more details on how TEP can work for you.
Engagement data provides an early indicator of performance. TEP measures pupil, employee, and family engagement, revealing how wellbeing, motivation, and culture affect attendance, retention, and outcomes. This evidence helps leaders plan, implement, and track improvement strategies across their school.
The Engagement Platform (TEP) is the leading fixed measurement tool for engagement, designed to help school leaders collect, analyse, and act on insights from pupils, employees, and wider stakeholders.TEP provides the only live, trusted engagement benchmarks at national, contextual, and MAT levels. Data updates each census window, giving headteachers current, comparable insight – not retrospective results – and directly linking engagement to school improvement outcomes.
TEP runs three census windows a year, providing an evolving engagement benchmark. This enables timely evaluation of progress and the impact of interventions throughout the academic year.
Yes. TEP’s contextualised benchmarks allow comparison with similar schools, helping leaders identify where strategies are most effective and where additional focus is needed.
Our Community Engagement team supports schools through onboarding, setup, staff briefing, post-census data analysis, and action planning – helping leaders make the most of their engagement insights.
All TEP’s engagement data is based on validated, research-backed question sets and processed through secure, GDPR-compliant systems. Responses remain anonymous, ensuring reliable, trustworthy data for strategic decision-making.
TEP connects securely via Wonde, allowing automatic integration with your school MIS. This connection streamlines setup, ensures pupil and employee data remain accurate, and removes the need for manual uploads.
Because TEP syncs directly with school MIS systems via Wonde, setup doesn’t take long and data updates automatically each census window. This automation saves time for school and central teams while maintaining data accuracy.