The Starlight Blog
Evidence-based thinking on pedagogy, reflective practice and professional growth for UK and International educators.
From Upload to Insight: A New Walkthrough for a Fast-Evolving Starlight
Starlight keeps evolving — and so does our walkthrough. From Upload to Insight gives teachers and Starlight Leads a clear introduction to th...
Starlight just got smarter. Again.
Starlight has upgraded its underlying AI for the fourth time in twelve months, bringing deeper reasoning, richer context and more powerful i...
Four words that decide whether feedback works
Why feedback sometimes makes performance worse — and what the research says about making it specific, timely, actionable and regular.
More time for the conversation: introducing the Starlight Careers Report
See how the Starlight Careers Report helps careers advisers capture conversations, manage actions, track progress and create professional re...
Evidence based practice comes home
Why the next chapter of the evidence movement is written in your classroom, not about it
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 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...
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