Middle Leaders
Providing actionable insights for timely action that sustain attendance, retention, and outcomes.
Trusted data. Timely action.
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Knowing who needs an intervention when
How TEP helps
Drive your department with reliable insights
"It helped us see which groups were really struggling – we wouldn't have seen that just from attendance or behaviour".
Ellie Nichols - Assistant Headteacher, Joseph Rowntree School
How we help leaders
For Heads of Year: Identify and support at-risk pupils early to improve attendance, behaviour, and overall outcomes.
For Heads of Department: Spot early dips in staff engagement and act quickly to maintain morale and prevent attrition.
For HR managers: Understand staff sentiment, spot early disengagement, and act to reduce absence and retain your best.
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.
Act early to keep every pupil on track
- Spot risks early: Use engagement data as a lead indicator to detect early signs of poor attendance and identify pupils at risk of falling behind.
- Uncover barriers: Identify underlying factors – from inclusion and confidence to family influence – that drive disengagement and affect attainment.
- Drive improvement: Use live benchmarks to track changes in sentiment and take early, targeted action that strengthens confidence, belonging, and academic progress.
Engagement as a lead indicator for your team
- Spot early dips: Use engagement data to detect changes in staff sentiment and identify where morale may be slipping before it affects performance.
- Uncover causes: Understand the factors behind disengagement, from workload and recognition to communication and support.
- Drive improvement: Take timely, evidence-based action to strengthen team culture, boost motivation, and reduce attrition.
Retention indicators
- Stay connected: Understand how your staff are feeling and what drives engagement across teams and departments.
- Spot early warning signs: Identify emerging issues like workload pressure, low morale, or disengagement before they impact wellbeing or performance.
- Retain your best people: Use insights to provide targeted support, reduce absence, and foster a motivated, committed workforce.
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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 targeted interventions, refine curriculum delivery, and strengthen behaviour, attendance, and progress in their subject or year group – ultimately driving overall school improvement.
TEP helps you identify where pupils or employees in your department may need additional support by providing detailed engagement data you can explore by demographic group, cohort, or subject area. Using TEP’s filters, you can see how drivers such as wellbeing, confidence, and sense of belonging are influencing engagement. This insight helps you target interventions more precisely, track their impact over time, and celebrate improvements in both pupil experience and staff culture within your department.
TEP provides the only live, trusted engagement benchmarks at national, contextual, and MAT levels. Data updates each census window, giving leaders current, comparable insight – not retrospective results – and directly linking engagement to school improvement outcomes.
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.
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.