The Starlight Blog
Evidence-based thinking on pedagogy, reflective practice and professional growth for UK and International educators.
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...
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...
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