A coach for every teacher, every lesson.
Starlight is an AI teaching coach. It turns whole-lesson recordings into private coaching reports in minutes, so teachers grow every week. Leaders see whole-school trends, never individual teacher data.
You get 5 StarDrives (lesson recorders), full platform access and dedicated support.
Individual teacher or tutor? Start a free trial
The STAR standard: feedback that is Specific Timely Actionable Regular
Trusted by design
Privacy and governance are built into Starlight's architecture, not added afterwards.
What Educators Say
Hear from teachers and school leaders about how Starlight has improved their teaching
“If I were still in the classroom, I would be using this without hesitation.”
Ross McGill
TeacherToolkit
View blog post“It's a game changer! Time saving, morale-boosting, and honest.”
Kim
Head of 6th Form - Bristol
“I've had four or five SLT as coaches over the last couple of years, and I've got to say, this has made the biggest difference to my teaching.”See the full story
Dan
Teacher - Wiltshire
“Excellent feedback! The best part is that it offers content to help me improve in the areas where I need development. I'm really happy to be able to use Starlight Mentor. It's the best teaching tool ever!”
Walen
Teacher - Swindon
Coaching that shows up in the data
Two different kinds of proof, kept clearly apart: what one school evidenced with Starlight, and the independent research behind the approach.
One secondary academy. One academic year.
These are a single school's own Starlight figures across one year, shared with permission. They are not platform-wide totals.
The evidence behind the approach.
Landmark randomised controlled trials from Harvard and Stanford. They validate the approach Starlight is built on, not Starlight itself.
How Starlight Works
From a single lesson recording to a whole-school picture, in five steps.
1. Recording Lessons
The single best predictor of whether a habit survives contact with a Tuesday afternoon is how many steps it takes to start. Anything requiring more than a single tap quietly stops happening, however good everyone's intentions are.
No editing, no special equipment, no scheduling a videographer. That simplicity is the entire mechanism by which observation becomes frequent, giving teachers support throughout the year.
One lesson tells you what happened. Fifteen tells a teacher how they are growing.
StarDrive
Plug-and-play USB recorder
Upload audio or video or drag and drop
MP3, WAV, OGG, M4A, MP4, MOV, AVI, WebM or MKV
Year 9 Physics.m4a
48.2 MB
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2. Lesson Insights
Every teacher deserves feedback that's specific and regular. The Insights tab makes that possible: each upload is read for what can actually be counted, talk time, question types, pace, pupil response, and handed back as a clear, quantified picture of the lesson.
Not a verdict. A mirror, ready the moment a teacher wants to reflect, and something to bring into their next conversation with a coach.
Quantitative data, at a glance
Talk time, question types and pace, plus a quick "what worked well" summary.
Scroll down for the full picture
In-depth findings are there whenever a teacher wants to go deeper.
Built for every teaching style
Insights that flex to how each teacher actually teaches, not one fixed template.
Classroom Discourse Analysis
Patterns from this lesson. Descriptive, not a verdict on quality.
Talk Time Balance
Question Mix, By Thinking Level
Lesson Climate
3. Organisation Templates
Every school has its own priorities for teaching and learning, whether that's questioning, metacognition, or something else entirely. Organisation Templates let a school align feedback with those priorities directly, then apply that automatically to every upload.
The feedback stops being generic, and starts pointing teachers toward the priorities for teaching excellence the school has actually chosen.
Full control over the development areas each template tracks
No limit on the number of templates you can create
Rotate templates through the year, and share them across the school
Organisation Templates
One generic checklist, tailored automatically into the framework your school already uses.
Generic Template
Criterion 1: Teaching quality
Criterion 2: Behaviour
Criterion 3: Planning
Criterion 4: Leadership
Your School's Template
Teaching & Learning
Weighted to your CPD priorities
Attendance & Inclusion
Matched to your pastoral framework
Personal Development
Your own language, not ours
Leadership
Aligned to your improvement plan
4. Lesson Toolkit
Every lesson holds a lot of useful information. Starlight turns it into ready to use resources, so nothing goes to waste and teachers save real time.
The Lesson Toolkit appears straight after upload, while the lesson is still fresh, with a short set of resources matched to that specific lesson.
Learning Intentions Summary
Homework suggestions
Retrieval questions
Emails for absent students
...and more, every time you upload.
Email for Absent Students
Retrieval Questions
Homework Instructions
Learning Intentions Summary
5. Constellation Dashboard
Individual feedback stays private. What reaches senior leaders is the pattern underneath it, whole school and department level trends drawn from every upload, with no teacher ever identifiable.
That's what makes it useful. Leaders can see exactly where professional learning is needed, at a glance, without a single name attached to it.
School and department-level trends, not individual scores
Clear signals on where support is needed most
New insights every week, without anyone needing to step into a classroom
Zero identifiable data
Constellation Dashboard
Key strengths
Priority development
Strategic actions
Framework areas
Teaching & Learning
Attendance & Inclusion
Personal Development
Leadership
Your school hasn't signed up yet? You still can.
Starlight isn't just for whole-school rollouts. If you're a classroom teacher or an independent tutor who wants private, AI-powered feedback on your own lessons, you can start a free trial in minutes — no procurement, no committee.
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Free trial — upload your first lessons and read your reports straight away.
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Private by default — your recordings and reports are yours alone.
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Tutors can self-authorise; teachers add a senior leader so safeguarding stays tight.
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Classroom teacher whose school hasn't signed up yet.
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Independent tutor looking for feedback on your own sessions.
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How Starlight Helps
Explore how AI-powered feedback supports lesson analysis, CPD, ECT development, and more for UK and international educators.
Give every teacher a coach this term.
Launchpad is a simple, free way for your school to experience Starlight before full rollout. You get 5 StarDrives (lesson recorders), full platform access and dedicated support, at no cost.
Flying solo as a teacher or tutor? Start a free individual trial