Instructional Coaching That Reaches Every Teacher
Your instructional coaches can't be everywhere. Starlight extends their reach by providing AI-powered feedback between coaching sessions - ensuring every teacher gets consistent, high-quality support.
The Coaching Capacity Challenge
Most schools have 1 coach for every 15-25 teachers
Teachers wait weeks between coaching conversations
New teachers need more support than available
AI fills the gap with consistent, instant feedback
AI-Enhanced Instructional Coaching
Starlight complements human coaches - it doesn't replace them
What AI Coaching Provides
- Instant feedback on any lesson
- Consistent analysis across all teachers
- Objective data on teaching practices
- Progress tracking over time
What Human Coaches Do Best
- Build trusting relationships
- Navigate school context and politics
- Provide emotional support
- Make nuanced judgement calls
We find that M-Powering Teachers improves instructors' uptake of student contributions by 13% and present suggestive evidence that it also improves students' satisfaction with the course and assignment completion.— Demszky et al., Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (2024)
The Best of Both Worlds
Teachers use AI feedback for regular self-reflection between human coaching sessions. They arrive at coaching conversations better prepared, with specific areas they want to discuss - making every minute with their coach more valuable.
Benefits for Your Coaching Program
How AI-enhanced coaching helps everyone
For Instructional Coaches
- Extend your reach to more teachers
- Teachers arrive prepared for sessions
- Focus time on complex challenges
- Consistent baseline feedback
For Teachers
- Feedback on demand, not on schedule
- Private space to practise and experiment
- Better coaching conversations
- Track your own progress
For School Leaders
- Scale coaching without hiring
- Organisation-wide insights
- Support teacher retention
- Evidence of CPD investment
How AI-Enhanced Coaching Works
A coaching cycle that combines AI and human expertise
Teacher Records Lesson
Between coaching sessions, teachers record lessons using a discreet USB-style recorder. Quick, easy, and private.
AI Provides Feedback
Within minutes, teachers receive detailed analysis of their questioning, explanations, and discourse.
Teacher Reflects & Sets Goals
Teachers use AI insights to identify focus areas and come to coaching sessions with specific discussion points.
Coach Deepens the Conversation
Human coaches build on AI feedback with nuanced guidance, relationship-building, and school-specific context.
Coaching Program Features
Tools to support your whole coaching operation
Customisable Feedback Templates
Create feedback frameworks aligned to your school's coaching priorities, improvement plan, or teaching standards.
Teacher Progress Tracking
Teachers can track their development over time, seeing growth in specific areas of practice.
Organisation Analytics
School leaders get aggregated insights into teaching quality trends - without accessing individual teacher data.
Privacy Controls
Teachers own their data. They choose what to share with coaches or leaders - building trust and honest reflection.
Audio-Only Recording
No video means lower friction, less anxiety, and simpler privacy compliance. Teachers record using a small USB-style recorder worn on a lanyard.
UK Education Focus
Built with UK educators, aligned to Ofsted expectations, supporting ECT development and the ITTECF.
Research on Instructional Coaching
What the evidence says about effective coaching programs
Combining results across 60 studies that employ causal research designs, we find pooled effect sizes of 0.49 standard deviations (SD) on instruction and 0.18 SD on achievement.— Kraft, Blazar and Hogan, Review of Educational Research (2018)
These results corroborate existing evidence that scalable and low-cost automated feedback can improve instruction and learning in online educational contexts.— Demszky and Liu, ACM Learning at Scale (2023)
The Challenge of Scale
Instructional coaching is powerful but expensive to scale. AI doesn't replace the human relationship at the heart of coaching - it extends what coaches can do, ensuring every teacher gets consistent support between sessions.
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ECT Support
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