Actionable insights into school engagement through an easy to use platform
TEP's mission is to improve school engagement for better outcomes, culture, and community relations.
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20,000+
School employee responses
75%+
Consistently high response rates
3
National census windows a year
1
Largest fixed data set on engagement
Easy to use platform, clear next steps
TEP facilitates and supports leaders to act where it is most needed.
Live benchmarks
Live benchmarks from national census windows throughout the school year.
Quick reporting
Immediate reporting after census windows with downloadable reports.
The Engagement Platform
Insightful metrics
Easy-to-interpret metrics and scoring for quick focus areas.
Pupils, employees, families & communities
Fixed research-led question sets for pupils, employees, families, and communities.
Automated collection
Automated data collection and tracking.
Dashboards
School and Trust level results and insights.
The TEP cycle
Get beyond the annual feedback surveys. TEP supports schools to take part in a meaningful cycle of feedback and action throughout the academic year, supporting within year and long-term strategy.
Collect data
Automatically collect responses from groups via the platform in half-termly census windows.
Access support resources and live tracking to secure high response rates.
Individuals remain anonymous with data redacted for small groups.
Share and act
Respond to anonymous comments (for employee surveys) directly through the platform. Resources provided for leadership teams to review data and plan dissemination to their teams.
TEP provides trend insights and case studies from the TEP community, sharing sustainable practice across the sector.
Download tailored reports for trustees, governors, Ofsted, leadership teams and all staff.
Action plan
Data automatically populates your TEP dashboard, highlighting headline score and overall trends.
Compare your scores to the benchmarks, pinpointing areas to celebrate success or direct action.
Leaders can analyse data by various categories depending on the groups surveyed.
An intuitive platform, innovative methodology and supported leaders
Transforming education sector stakeholder engagement with powerful research and pragmatic leadership action.
Holistic approach to school improvement
Engagement is an effective lead indicator and predicts pupil outcomes, attendance, and staff retention. Our method eliminates guesswork, supporting school improvement year-round.
Research designed question sets
Fixed, regularly tested questions for different age groups and roles to reduce survey fatigue.
Holistic measures
Covers headline engagement and a range of drivers for actionable insights.
Comprehensive insights and reporting
Actionable insights, breakdowns, and post-census support for leaders.
Live benchmarking
Live benchmarks from national census windows, reflecting changing sentiment throughout the year.
Downloadable reporting
Easy sharing with your team, trustees, governors, and Ofsted.
Intuitive and integrated platform
Quick setup, time-saving, and easy maintenance with deep insights. TEP team supports setup and briefing.
Seamless integration with school systems
Works with all MIS systems for personalised data collection and demographic breakdowns.
Detailed demographic breakdowns
Drill down into groups to pinpoint action areas and key themes.
Ownership of engagement for all leaders
Grant platform access to all leader levels, and share reports to give ownership to use and act on engagement data for their area of responsibility.
Supporting leaders across the sector
We cater for all school types, groups, set ups and all stages in the school improvement journey.
Toby Sutherland
Headteacher, St Clement Danes School
Kamini Mistry
Headteacher, Sudbury Primary School
Toby Sutherland
Headteacher, St Clement Danes School
Kamini Mistry
Headteacher, Sudbury Primary School
Mark Tilling
Headteacher, High Tunstall College of Science
Alison Tones
Headteacher, Rufford Primary and Nursery School, Nottingham
Mark Tilling
Headteacher, High Tunstall College of Science
Alison Tones
Headteacher, Rufford Primary and Nursery School, Nottingham
Resources
Events
Regular community events sharing new research and practice around TEP data.
News
Latest updates, news and blogs from TEP.
Research
Latest research publications, blogs and case studies on engagement in the UK education sector.
Pricing
£400-2,600/pa
Subscriptions are based on school size to reflect budgets. Ranging from under 300 pupils to over 1,200. There are some subsidies in the first year, and depending on individual school circumstances we can discuss with you.
Full platform access
Pupil and Employee Engagement
Support and resources from the TEP team
Automated response collection and tracking
Live national and contextual benchmarks
Downloadable reports
First access to research publications
Community events and case studies
Family Engagement (coming Spring 2025)
Governor Engagement (coming Summer 2025)
Custom pricing*
*Based on school sizes and amount of centralised coordination
Full platform access for all schools
Pupil and Employee Engagement
Trust/Group level dashboards on platforms to support response tracking, aggregated results and reporting
Support and resources from the TEP team, including briefings and training sessions for Headteacher groups
Automated response collection and tracking
Live national and contextual benchmarks
Downloadable Group/Trust level reports and school level reports
First access to research publications
Community events and case studies
Family Engagement (coming Spring 2025)
Governor Engagement (coming Summer 2025)
Any last questions?
Drop us a line with any questions you have.
Yes! You don't need to be a in a MAT or large school to get the full benefit of TEP. TEP provides contextual benchmarks for all school types and takes the heavy lifting away from the process of collecting and reporting on stakeholder feedback. Take a look at some of our case studies to see how individual schools utilise TEP to the full.
We generate instant one pager summary reports to provide to an Ofsted inspector. This will take the highlights, areas of good progress and identified areas for development from the most recent census window data your school has participated in. This can provide a quick read for an inspector. You can also share your more detailed, and most recent, TEP reports.
We have created our question sets based on the existing research and our own psychometric testing undertaken during pilot and trial phases of the project. They are fixed, schools can't choose the questions to ask, but can add 1-2 custom questions to get feedback on something specific to the school or trust. The reason we do this is to keep the question sets focused (not asking anything that is statistically meaningless) and can reduce survey fatigue. It's important to keep response rates high to make sure your results reflect the true picture of your stakeholders - being very purposeful about what we ask is crucial to doing this well.
TEP Employee engagement collects data for all school staff role types. For non-teaching, pupil facing staff, we offer a tailored routes through the question set to reflect the nature of the non-teaching roles.
Any identifiable school data is only shared with the school leaders. We will collect case studies and banks of effective actions from schools with their express permission to share across the TEP community.
We will only share individual school data with their multi-academy trust if there is an explicit agreement in place with the central trust for MAT platform access and reporting.
No individual teacher data will be shared with school leaders. All data is presented in groups of three of more to protect anonymity.
The question set has been designed following an evidence review conducted and peer review by Dr Neil Gilbride and Dr Sam Carr, of Universities of Gloucestershire and Bath. The majority of the question set is composed of items from previously validated and open-access surveys, such as the Engaged Teacher Scale. We haven’t re-invented the wheel when strong measures already exist. Our expertise is in mobilising this research so that it reaches schools.
These sit alongside a selection of originally composed questions to tackle factors affecting engagement underrepresented in the literature. It comprises 15 distinct engagement drivers, linked to factors affecting engagement: namely the nature of work, the school environment and individual factors. It has been tested with over 100 schools and 4,500 teachers for ease of comprehension, accessibility and practicality of implementation.
We have now completed the TEP pilot and will be using the research findings to further refine the question set within the Foundation Year ahead of validating the whole question set.
The power in the benchmarks comes from schools answering the same questions at the same time. Schools cannot edit the standardised question set, but can add a small number of custom questions.
While we would not recommend using the Ofsted questions as a holistic measure of engagement, TEP partner schools report that the question set is useful to address questions 4 (involvement in shaping initiatives from the senior leadership team) and 5 (teacher safety). TEP reports can of course be shared alongside other evidence to relevant stakeholders.
We have lots of exciting features coming up in the TEP pipeline. These will provide even more support for leaders to utilise engagement data and share it effectively with their teams.
First up we’ll be adding a rotation feature to the question set to shorten completion time and reduce survey fatigue. We’ll also be launching data insights to school and MAT platform reporting.
We’ll release these and more in beta format to test with our TEP community. We regularly conduct user testing and source feedback from TEP partner schools to ensure the platform does what you need it to.