The Starlight Blog
Evidence-based thinking on pedagogy, reflective practice and professional growth for UK and International educators.
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...
AI Coaching and Teacher Reflection: What We Took to BERA TEAN 2026
Insights from building the UK's teacher-first transcript-based lesson analysis platform. This week we presented our research at the BERA Tea...
When the classroom speaks two languages, the transcript should too
Starlight already supports lesson transcription in over 70 languages. What is new, and what users asked us for, is the ability to transcribe...
Why we've upgraded the AI behind Starlight's lesson analysis
We've moved Starlight's lesson transcript analysis onto a stronger model this week. The decision didn't come from a benchmark table. It came...
Sugata Mitra, the Granny Cloud, and the Coaching of Teachers
In 1999, Sugata Mitra cut a hole in the wall of his office in Kalkaji, New Delhi. On the other side of that wall was a slum. He embedded a c...
Why We Built Feedback Friday (And Why One Lesson a Week Is Enough)
There is a pattern we see in schools that adopt Starlight. In the first few weeks, uploads are strong. Teachers record lessons, read their r...
Starlight Is Now Open to Every Teacher
Until today, Starlight was only available to schools. A headteacher or trust leader had to sign off, onboard their staff, and roll it out as...
Coaching as a Right, Not a Remedy
There is a persistent and damaging idea in some schools that coaching is something you offer to teachers who are struggling. It sits somewhe...
Starlight Quarterly: Issue 1 Is Here
We have published the first edition of Starlight Quarterly, our new newsletter for the Starlight community. This issue covers a lot of groun...
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