The Wellington Initiative
Advancing Student Engagement With Data and Insight
The Wellington Initiative
Our purpose is to help schools understand and measure student engagement, so every classroom can be a place where students love learning and feel challenged in meaningful ways.
The Wellington Initiative Overview
The Wellington Initiative, designed by educators for educators, has developed engagement data-collection tools to provide academic leaders with timely, actionable insights into student engagement, a key driver of learning and well-being.
Through the Wellington Engagement Index, schools can gather structured feedback from every student, in every class, multiple times a year, with the data immediately at their fingertips. For students, the experience is straightforward: a brief, exit-ticket-style check-in that takes less than a minute. For teachers and administrators, the result is comprehensive data that highlights patterns across classrooms, grade levels, and individual students.
Through the Wellington Engagement Dimensions, schools can use data to develop a comprehensive look at teaching and learning across four dimensions: behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and instructional engagement. Like a course feedback survey, students share their perspectives by responding to statements about their engagement and by writing comments that expand on their responses.
The goal of The Wellington Initiative is to equip educators with just-in-time insights that can support day-to-day decisions and long-term planning, without adding to the burden on staff or students. When used consistently, the tool helps schools move beyond assumptions and anecdotes to get a clearer picture of whether students feel engaged, challenged, and supported.
The Wellington Initiative provides consulting and professional development to help schools translate engagement data into actionable next steps. We partner with academic leaders to support teaching and learning in ways that are data-driven, mission-aligned, and grounded in what matters most: creating engaging classrooms.
Introducing Wellington Engagement Dimensions: A New Tool from The Wellington Initiative
What We Offer
The Engagement Index is a survey and software tool that asks students to place a dot on a grid to indicate their level of engagement in each of their classes. The grid’s axes represent how much they love the class and how challenged they feel by their class. The Index can be administered as often as schools choose, based on their academic calendar.
The Wellington Engagement Dimensions is a survey and software tool that provides schools with a comprehensive view of teaching and learning across four key dimensions: behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and instructional engagement. Students share their perspectives by responding to targeted statements about their classroom experiences and by providing written comments that add context to their responses. The Engagement Dimensions tool can be administered at intervals that align with a school’s academic calendar.
Being educators ourselves, teaching comes first. The Wellington Initiative includes on-site consulting services as schools implement our cutting-edge processes and adjust to a new way of teaching and learning. Whether you're looking at school-wide patterns, focusing on a specific area, or working directly with teachers, our team provides robust data analysis, guided conversations, and personalized support.
The Wellington Initiative provides hands-on, research-based workshops that enable teachers to gain a deeper understanding of student engagement research and strategies for creating more engaging learning environments. Through data analysis, reflection, and collaborative planning, educators develop practical strategies they can apply directly in their classrooms.