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 created a data collection tool to provide academic leaders with timely, actionable insights on 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.

The goal 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.

Additionally, 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.

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.

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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.

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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. 

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Explore The Wellington Initiative

Our team shares a deep commitment to supporting and advancing teaching and learning, with a laser focus on student engagement.

Meet the Team

We are proud to that the Wellington Index is now used in 200 schools including independent day and boarding schools, public school districts, and specialty programs.

Who We Work With

The Wellington Engagement Index is intentionally simple by design. We define engagement as the intersection of loving a class and feeling challenged by it, capturing both students’ cognitive and emotional engagement.

Engagement Index Overview

We offer services to strengthen your school’s student engagement efforts through personalized, high-impact consulting services and dynamic professional development workshops.

Services Overview

Explore downloadable resources and articles to support your student engagement work.

Student Engagement Resources

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