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Why the inspection vocabulary has changed, and why the evidence got there first. Here is a small linguistic detail with large implications. When Ross McGill of TeacherToolkit analysed Ofsted’s new Schools Inspection Toolkit earlier this year, he found the phrase ‘professional learning’ fifteen times. The phrase ‘CPD’ does not appear once. That is not an accident of drafting. Words carry intent, and the intent here is unmistakable. The renewed framework, published in November

At STAR21, the company behind Starlight, our mission is simple: to make high-quality feedback more specific, timely, actionable and regular. That is what we mean by STAR feedback. Teachers do not need more generic comments. They do not need feedback that arrives weeks after the lesson. They do not need another overloaded dashboard that takes more time to interpret than it saves. They need feedback that helps them see something clearly, reflect on it quickly, and decide what t

Satya Nadella says the future belongs to organisations that own their learning loop. For schools, the whole organisation is the dataset, and almost all of it currently disappears by Friday. Satya Nadella recently posted a long note titled “A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable.” His argument has a simple core. In the AI era, the organisations that thrive will not be the ones that pick the best model. They will be the ones that build a learning loop on top of a model,