The Starlight Blog
Evidence-based thinking on pedagogy, reflective practice and professional growth for UK and International educators.
Fifteen mentions of professional learning. Zero mentions of CPD.
Why the inspection vocabulary has changed, and why the evidence got there first. Here is a small linguistic detail with large implications....
Starlight’s Enhanced Feedback Report Is Now Live
At STAR21, the company behind Starlight, our mission is simple: to make high-quality feedback more specific, timely, actionable and regular....
The knowledge your school loses every week
Satya Nadella says the future belongs to organisations that own their learning loop. For schools, the whole organisation is the dataset, and...
The longest day, the brightest year
A solstice reflection on a year of AI teacher coaching at scale Today is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the northern he...
The questions worth asking: the environment and your data
Some of the most useful things we write come straight from the questions teachers and leaders ask us. When a school is weighing up whether t...
Feedback that follows the class, not just the teacher
When we reflect on our own teaching, context is everything. The lesson you teach to a top set first thing on Monday is not the lesson you te...
Trust Is the Real Test for AI Coaching
A Starlight reflection on credibility, professional trust and evidence-led teacher development. One of the most valuable things for any educ...
A teacher’s case study at Artificial Intelligence in Schools: Opportunities and Risks 2026
In September I will be taking part in Artificial Intelligence in Schools: Opportunities and Risks, an online conference hosted by Mark Allen...
From Talk Time to Talk Type: Starlight's new Interaction Modes
Walk into almost any teaching and learning meeting and, before long, the conversation turns to teacher talk time. In a growing number of sch...
What The Digital Coaching Revolution Teaches Us About the Future of Teacher Development
There is a quiet revolution happening in coaching. For a long time, coaching has been seen as something deeply human, personal and largely o...
Does AI Coaching Work? Why the Better Question Is: Where Does It Work Best?
A recent Forbes article by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic asks a question that sits right at the heart of the future of professional development: D...
Past the novelty: what educators are really asking of AI in schools
Walk into any staffroom this term and you will hear AI mentioned more than ever. What you will hear less of, increasingly, is wide-eyed exci...
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