✨ Introducing Constellation: Real-Time Teaching and Learning Intelligence for School Leaders

This September, we’re launching Constellation, the powerful new SLT dashboard on the Starlight platform that gives senior leaders real-time, anonymised insights into what’s happening in classrooms across your school.

Designed for Teaching and Learning Leads and Trust Directors, Constellation transforms Starlight lesson data into a rich constellation of evidence to help you identify what’s working, where support is needed, and how your curriculum is being delivered in practice.

🌟 Why Constellation?

Starlight was created to solve three major challenges in schools:

1. Scaling Coaching and Professional Development – Making high-quality feedback accessible to all teachers without time-intensive observations.

2. Reducing Teacher Workload – Automating lesson summaries, homework instructions, and retrieval questions with AI.

3. Providing Real-Time Data to School Leaders – Giving SLT the insights they need to drive improvement and respond to challenges without relying solely on drop-ins or learning walks.

Constellation directly addresses Pain Point 3, by delivering a bird’s-eye view of teaching and learning—based not on observation, but on thousands of anonymised datapoints captured through the Starlight coaching engine.

🔍 What Will You See?

Constellation draws from weekly lesson transcripts and coaching feedback, then distils them into actionable metrics. Here’s a preview of what you can explore:

📊 Quality of Education Overview

Track trends in challenge, questioning, student engagement, misconception handling, and more—across the school.

🧭 SOP Drilldowns

Insights on routines like retrieval practice, cold calling, or hinge questions.

🕒 Weekly Heatmaps

Spot patterns and fluctuations in the quality of teaching over time—at a glance.

📈 Progress Over Time

Measure growth and consistency, not just isolated feedback. See where interventions are making a difference.

🗂️ Downloadable Evidence for Ofsted or Governors

Export aggregated data, charts, or written summaries to support your SEF, SDP, or CPD plans.

🛰️ Why It Matters

Leaders are often left in the dark—relying on scheduled drop-ins, inconsistent walkthroughs, or subjective feedback. With Constellation, you get an always-on, always-updated window into classroom life that supports your leadership with:

• Evidence for intent–implementation–impact

• Smart targeting of coaching and CPD

• Curriculum fidelity tracking

• Live feedback loops on teaching and learning strategy

🚀 Coming September 2025

Constellation launches as part of the Starlight platform this September. It’s included at no extra cost in the whole-school subscription model (£10 per teacher/month), giving your SLT the tools to lead with clarity, insight, and confidence.

Want to see Constellation in action before launch? Get in touch for a demo or pilot access this summer. Email info@starlightmentor.com

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.