Leadership, Coaching, and AI Strategy in Education
Starlight: AI Coaching for Schools
The UK’s teacher-first AI coaching platform, built to strengthen reflective practice and reduce workload.
Starlight was created to make coaching scalable, private, and practical. It transforms lesson audio and professional dialogue into structured insight within minutes — helping teachers and leaders reflect with clarity rather than pressure.
Why Starlight Exists
After leading whole-school coaching and professional development for over two decades, I saw the same constraint everywhere: coaching works — but time does not scale.
Observations are limited. Feedback depends on availability. Insight is often episodic.
Starlight was designed to address that gap.
It uses transcript-based analysis and AI systems to provide structured, actionable feedback from lesson recordings, meetings, and professional dialogue — without adding observation pressure or increasing workload.
Technology should strengthen professional judgement, not replace it. That principle sits at the centre of Starlight’s design.
What Starlight Enables
Coaching at Scale
Private, developmental lesson feedback in minutes.
Workload Reduction
Automated transcript insight and resource generation.
Leadership Visibility
Anonymised dashboards that surface trends across schools and trusts.
Built for Real School Leadership
As both a senior leader and co-founder of STAR21, my work sits at the intersection of leadership, coaching, and AI strategy.
Starlight is one expression of that work.
For schools exploring AI coaching, transcript-based insight, or custom AI systems, I advise both on implementation and governance alongside platform adoption.