Adam Sturdee

Educator, Coach, Senior Leader. Building AI for human growth. Co-Founder STAR21 | Creator of Starlight. Helping schools scale coaching.

[🇬🇧 TeacherToolkit.co.uk @TeacherToolkit]

Coaching, not compliance.

Insight, not surveillance.

Growth, not grading. 🌟

Starlight gives teachers private, whole-lesson AI #Coaching feedback in minutes. Built by a serving assistant head.

🟢 Free trial for TeacherToolkit readers ➡️ https://t.co/ymBHW5sYBK #ad

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We built Starlight because teachers deserve feedback that is specific, timely, actionable, and regular.

Most get it once or twice a year.

That is not enough.

Free trial. No card needed. £14.99/month after.

https://t.co/7v9KgDsG0q

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Starlight is now open to every teacher. Anywhere in the world. Tonight.

Until now you needed your school to sign up. That is no longer the case.

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Teachers who use it regularly build a genuine evidence base of their own development.

Useful for reflection. Useful if you want to bring real data into a performance conversation on your own terms.

[STAR21 Starlight @STAR21Starlight]

From skepticism to superuser! Dan’s journey with Starlight shows how AI can boost teaching effectiveness while keeping the human touch. Follow his story! https://t.co/hbjalDYkn9

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Just launched: Observations upgrade! Now, educators can convert professional dialogue into actionable insights seamlessly. Check it out here: https://t.co/cBoNrk9UBk

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I do not have the answer. This is genuinely new territory.
But the debate needs to start in every SLT, every staffroom, every union branch. Now. Not in five years.
Full thought piece here 👇

https://t.co/m0g4mLBl1T

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Teachers are quietly building AI second brains.
Lesson plans. Pastoral notes. Feedback drafts. Years of professional thinking. All feeding tools that learn their voice.
Most are paying for it themselves. £300–£600 a year.
Nobody at school level is asking who should really own it.

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When a teacher leaves, what happens to their AI workspace?
If the school paid, two years of their professional thinking is locked behind the door they just walked out of.
If the teacher paid, it leaves with them, trained partly on school data.
Neither answer is clean.

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The first Starlight Quarterly is here. New templates, Deep Field Reports, 70+ languages, evidence to Parliament, and a look ahead. Read and share. https://t.co/36NKTlTL1x

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We have a solution to this problem: https://t.co/74MNEHMnup

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Big Starlight update:

We now support 70+ audio transcription languages for lesson and coaching analysis 🌍

Including Welsh, Arabic, French, German, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi, Urdu and many more.

A major step toward making AI-powered coaching scalable across global education.

Incredibly proud of what our team has built, and of the speed and quality with which they’ve built it.

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Four astronauts flew around the Moon this week. The images they sent back are stopping people in their tracks.

The classroom is the launchpad for everything those photographs represent. The teacher is the star.

Why the view from the Moon matters in every school.

New on the blog: why those images from the Moon matter in every classroom - https://t.co/VfzrDOXE40

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A union rep spent a year using AI coaching in school. Here's what they found. Recordings. Data. Appraisal evidence. Professional integrity. Worth reading if you lead, coach, or make policy. https://t.co/p9WZBpFdrM