Confidence
How confident professionals feel supporting pupils with SEND.
How it works
A measurement cycle, not a one-off evaluation.
Elevate SEND establishes where your workforce is, sits alongside whatever professional development you run, measures again, and turns the difference into evidence leaders can use.
Assess
Develop
Reassess
Evidence
Improve
- 01ASSESS
Establish the baseline.
Measure workforce confidence and capability before development takes place.
- 02DEVELOP
Connect insight to professional development.
Development is delivered by your own team, your existing provider, your MAT or your local authority.
- 03REASSESS
Measure again.
The same structured measures are applied, so before and after can be compared consistently.
- 04EVIDENCE
Identify what changed.
Aggregated, permission-controlled evidence for leadership discussions — not a staff league table.
- 05IMPROVE
Inform the next development cycle.
Evidence sets the priorities for the next round of professional development.
What we measure
Four connected dimensions.
Confidence alone is not capability. Elevate looks at confidence alongside knowledge, applied judgement and practice, so leaders can see where the two diverge.
Knowledge
Understanding of specific needs, strategies and statutory context.
Applied judgement
How that knowledge is applied to realistic classroom situations.
Practice
How support is planned, adapted and reviewed day to day.
Behavioural Index — baseline, current and change
Index values shown on a 0–100 scale. Illustrative demonstration data.
Confidence
6478+14
Knowledge
5871+13
Applied judgement
5562+7
Practice
6070+10
The Behavioural Index is a developing pilot framework, refined through implementation and expert review.0
Elevate Intelligence
From measurement to interpretation.
Results are structured, then interpreted so leaders receive a clear read on direction of travel rather than a spreadsheet of scores.
Validated data
Structured measurement
Clear interpretation
Actionable insight
- Interpretation follows the same structured framework for every cohort.
- Summaries distinguish clearly between measured results and interpretive commentary.
- Leadership views are aggregated; small cohorts are suppressed.
- Individual results belong to the professional, for their own development.
- No pupil data is collected.
Next
See it with sample data, then talk to us about a pilot.
The demo uses clearly labelled fictional data and requires no sign-in.