The Starlight Blog
Evidence-based thinking on pedagogy, reflective practice and professional growth for UK and International educators.
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...
New in Starlight: Smarter Audio Categories for Smarter Feedback
Starlight has just added a small but powerful upgrade: six new audio subcategories you can select when uploading any recording. The default...
Observations Just Got Smarter: Turning Professional Dialogue into Actionable Insight
When we first launched Observations earlier this year, our goal was simple: to bring every strand of professional dialogue — from personalis...
💬 From Conversation to Constellation: How Starlight Is Growing Through Word of Mouth
There’s something special about growth that doesn’t come from a marketing budget — but from teachers talking. From one conversation in a sta...
🔦Building Your Evidence Base for the New Ofsted Framework with Starlight
As Ofsted shifts towards deeper, evidence-informed evaluation, schools are now expected to demonstrate impact through real examples — not ju...
🌍 Unlocking Every Voice: Starlight’s 20 New EAL Language Packs
When we built Starlight, our goal was simple — to create a coaching and performance engine for schools that could turn insight into progress...
Unlock the Limitless Potential of Templates in Starlight
At STAR21, we believe that insight should be accessible to everyone — not hidden behind long observation cycles or time-consuming paperwork....
The NIoT Pilot Is Welcome News — But the Real Lesson Is About Trust
This week’s Schools Week article about the National Institute of Teaching’s pilot on AI lesson analysis marks an important moment for the pr...
From Skeptic to Superuser: How One Teacher Changed His Practice with Starlight
When Dan first heard about Starlight, he wasn’t convinced. “I’m a teacher, not a machine,” he told his colleagues. “I already have enough sc...
From ‘What Happened?’ to ‘What’s Next’: Rethinking How We Share Cover Lesson Feedback
Every teacher knows the problem. You cover a colleague’s class, guide students through the plan left behind, manage behaviour, answer questi...
From Classroom to Global Stage: STAR21 Brings Starlight to BETT 2026
We’re thrilled to announce that STAR21 will be exhibiting Starlight, the UK's first AI coaching platform for teachers, at BETT 2026 — the wo...
Feature, Not a Bug: How AI Feedback is Changing Teacher Behaviour
One of the most interesting things about building Starlight is seeing how teachers are beginning to change how they teach — not because anyo...
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