Introducing Constellation: A New Lens for School Leaders

This September we’re unveiling Constellation, Starlight’s new leadership dashboard — and today we’re sharing a first look video walkthrough.

Constellation has been built to solve a persistent problem: school leaders are often left in the dark. Relying on drop-ins or snapshots gives only fragments of what’s happening in classrooms. Constellation changes that.

By drawing on thousands of anonymised lesson transcripts, Constellation connects the dots into a clear, navigable picture of teaching and learning across your school. Updated weekly, it provides evidence-based insight mapped against the four areas:

• Quality of Education

• Behaviour and Attitudes

• Personal Development

• Leadership and Management

  
  

With Constellation, senior teams can:

• Track staff engagement and lesson activity over time.

• Identify strengths and priority areas for development.

• Download anonymised, aggregated reports for governors, trusts, and Ofsted.

• See which aspects of practice teachers engage with most, from questioning to adaptive teaching.

All data is anonymised and aggregated, ensuring Constellation remains first and foremost a coaching tool. Trust and teacher confidence are at the heart of Starlight — that’s a non-negotiable.

We know schools are under pressure, balancing workload, wellbeing, and budgets. That’s why Constellation is designed not only to sharpen leadership insight but also to save time — and in turn, resources — by making professional development more efficient and more impactful.

🚀 Watch the walkthrough video now to see how Constellation can help you lead with clarity, evidence, and confidence.

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The Insight Engine is written by Adam Sturdee, co-founder of Starlight—the UK’s first AI-powered coaching platform—and Assistant Headteacher at St Augustine’s Catholic College. This blog is part of a wider mission to support educators through meaningful reflection, not performance metrics. It documents the journey of building Starlight from the ground up, and explores how AI, when shaped with care, can reduce workload, surface insight, and help teachers think more deeply about their practice. Rooted in the belief that growth should be private, professional, and purposeful, The Insight Engine offers ideas and stories that put insight—not judgment—at the centre of development.