The Starlight Blog
Evidence-based thinking on pedagogy, reflective practice and professional growth for UK and International educators.
Listening Back to Thinking: Starlight joins the European P4C conversation on AI and reflection
We are delighted to share that we has been invited to contribute to this year’s online annual meeting of the SOPHIA Network, the European Fo...
From Inspection Preparation to Inspection-Ready: How Starlight Supports Schools Under the New Ofsted Framework
One of the quiet but significant shifts in the 2025/26 Ofsted Education Inspection Framework is this: inspection is no longer about how well...
Building in the Open: What BETT 2026 Meant for Starlight
Last week, we stood on the exhibition floor at BETT 2026 for the first time as a company. Not as an idea. Not as a prototype quietly tested...
What Teachers Value Most When AI Is Used for Coaching
When we first piloted Starlight, we assumed the conversations would centre on efficiency, data and insight. Those things matter, of course....
What Two Landmark Studies Tell Us About AI Coaching (and Why It Matters for Starlight)
Over the past year, two rigorous, peer-reviewed studies have quietly changed what we can say with confidence about AI coaching in schools. N...
Blending Human Judgement and AI Insight: A Smarter Coaching Model
There is a temptation, when a new coaching tool arrives in a school, to treat it like a shortcut. Upload a lesson. Receive a report. Tick a...
What a Stanford AI Coaching Trial Tells Us About the Future of Teacher Development
One of the most common questions we’re asked about Starlight is a fair one: “Is there any serious research showing that AI feedback can actu...
Trust Comes First: Our Commitment for 2026
The start of a new year invites reflection. Not resolutions for their own sake, but a chance to be clear about what really matters — and wha...
Why Better Still Matters — and What It Teaches Us About Coaching, Trust, and Improvement
In 2007, the surgeon and writer Atul Gawande published a book called Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance. It is not a book about techno...
Mapping Strengths, Not Judgement: Why We Built the Starlight StarMap
One of the hardest problems in professional development is not insight — it’s trust. Teachers are rightly cautious about anything that looks...
Why Digital Tools Matter: What Ofsted Now Expects—and How Starlight Supports It
Across the sector, one message keeps resurfacing in Ofsted reports and leadership briefings: schools are expected to use digital technologie...
Introducing My Teaching Journey: Your Personal Growth Story, Brought to Life
Today, we’re launching what we believe is the most important upgrade to Starlight to date. It’s called My Teaching Journey — a living, evolv...
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