AI-powered teacher evaluations
for Alaska educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around Alaska's own professional content and performance standards natively — the seven scored standards, all twenty-eight performance indicators, and the four-level exemplary/proficient/basic/unsatisfactory scale the state's regulations require.
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Across all 7 scored standards
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Three evaluations free — no credit card · Individual plans from $100/year · School & district licensing available
Endorsed by educational leaders
Game changer. Absolute game changer for school admin.
Tobin Davidson · Assistant Superintendent · 40+ years in education
This is amazing. I would pay lots of money for this. I’m serious — it’s crazy good.
Kittie Brown · Assistant Principal
Also endorsed by Dr. Robert Stinson · Glenn Brown · Angie Brandt — read full quotes ↓
Built by a classroom teacher
Founded by a practicing K–12 educator with nearly 20 years in the field.
Alaska-specific
All 7 scored standards and 28 performance indicators, built in natively.
Privacy-first
Transient processing on Microsoft Azure. Never used for AI training.
Built for workflow
Designed around the realities of being an Alaska evaluator.
Alaska writes its standards into regulation. EvalScribe is built around the scored ones.
Alaska's professional content and performance standards live in state regulation at 4 AAC 04.200(b), and 4 AAC 19.010(b) tells districts exactly what to do with them: rate every teacher exemplary, proficient, basic, or unsatisfactory on each of standards two through eight, while considering the Cultural Standards for Educators. EvalScribe is built around that structure — the seven scored standards, the twenty-eight performance indicators beneath them, and the four-level scale — in the standards' own language.
Professional Content & Performance Standards (4 AAC 04.200)
Eight content standards describe an Alaska teacher's practice, and each carries its own performance indicators — the specific performances that reflect attainment of the standard. Seven of the eight are scored in a teacher evaluation. Alongside them sit four Cultural Standards for Educators that districts are required to consider when rating any teacher, on any standard.
Standard 1 sits outside the scored set
Standard 1 — a teacher can describe the teacher's philosophy of education and demonstrate its relationship to the teacher's practice — is part of Alaska's professional standards, but 4 AAC 19.010(b) directs districts to rate teachers on the content standards at 4 AAC 04.200(b)(2)–(8). That leaves seven scored standards. Districts may add standards of their own on top of them.
Seven scored standards. Twenty-eight performance indicators.
Understanding How Students Learn & Develop
2 indicators- A Identifying and teaching to developmental abilities
- B Applying learning theory to differences in intelligence, perception, and cognitive style
Teaching with Respect for Individual & Cultural Characteristics
3 indicators- A Incorporating student and local community culture
- B Strategies and resources for individual and special needs
- C Applying Alaska history, geography, economics, governance, languages, traditional life cycles, and current issues
Knowing the Content Area & How to Teach It
5 indicators- A Academic structure, tools of inquiry, central concepts, connections to other domains
- B Developmental stages of content mastery, assessing a student's stage, collaborating to advance it
- C A wide repertoire of strategies, including instructional technology
- D Connecting content to other content areas and to situations outside school
- E Staying current and demonstrating relevance to life, work, and community
Facilitating, Monitoring & Assessing Student Learning
5 indicators- A Organizing and delivering instruction around student characteristics and curricular goals
- B Creating, selecting, and adapting instructional resources
- C A variety of assessment strategies that reinforce learning and support student reflection
- D Records of student learning and communication of progress to appropriate audiences
- E Reflecting on assessment information and adjusting teaching practice
Creating & Maintaining a Learning Environment
4 indicators- A A stimulating, inclusive, safe community where students take intellectual risks
- B High standards and clear expectations
- C A variety of classroom management techniques
- D Students understanding their role in sharing responsibility for learning
Partnering with Parents, Families & the Community
5 indicators- A Regular, meaningful classroom-to-family communication
- B Working with parents and families to support learning
- C Schoolwide efforts to reach the broader community
- D Connecting classroom activity to homes, cultures, workplaces, and community
- E Involving families in setting and monitoring learning goals
Participating in & Contributing to the Teaching Profession
4 indicators- A Maintaining a high standard of professional ethics
- B Keeping content knowledge and best practice current
- C Instructional development that improves classroom, school, or district programs
- D Communicating, working cooperatively, and building professional relationships with colleagues
The four-level scale (4 AAC 19.010).
Unsatisfactory
Has not met district standardsBasic
Improvement expectedProficient
The professional standardExemplary
Consistently exceedsThe Cultural Standards for Educators (4 AAC 04.200(f)).
These four standards are not a separate score. Regulation directs districts to consider them when rating a teacher on every content standard — which means the evidence for them shows up throughout a write-up, not in a box at the bottom.
- 1A culturally-responsive educator incorporates local ways of knowing and teaching into their work.
- 2A culturally-responsive educator uses the local environment and community resources regularly to link teaching to students' everyday lives.
- 3A culturally-responsive educator works closely with parents toward complementary educational expectations between home and school.
- 4A culturally-responsive educator recognizes each student's full educational potential and provides the challenges needed to reach it.
How EvalScribe handles Alaska's standards
All seven scored standards and all twenty-eight performance indicators are built into the tool, each with the standards' own language across the four levels, the look-fors an observer watches for, and the distinctions that separate adjacent ratings. EvalScribe maps your evidence to the relevant standards and drafts best-fit ratings and feedback in the standards' voice — treating Proficient as the professional standard it is rather than a middling score, reserving Exemplary for practice that consistently and significantly exceeds the standard, and surfacing the Cultural Standards threads across the write-up rather than parking them in one paragraph.
Honest scope on Alaska's district control: the state sets the standards, but each school board adopts its own certificated employee evaluation system under AS 14.20.149(a), and under 4 AAC 04.205(b) a district establishes its own performance standards — it may adopt the state's performance standards as written, modify them for district priorities, combine them into broader standards, or add its own. Districts may also use a nationally recognized framework approved by the department that aligns with 4 AAC 04.200, and may build student learning data into the process. EvalScribe is built around the state's own standards; if your district's instrument reads differently, let us know at [email protected]. District leaders can see how a full rollout works at evalscribe.com/district.
How EvalScribe works with Alaska's standards.
A five-step path from the back of the classroom to a finished, standards-aligned evaluation.
Observe the classroom
Formal observation or walkthrough — capture what you see the way you always have.
Enter notes your way
Type, dictate, or snap a photo of your handwritten notes. Smart Scan converts handwriting to text.
Map evidence to standards
EvalScribe identifies which of the 28 performance indicators each note supports, across all seven scored standards.
Suggested ratings & comments
Get draft ratings and feedback language in the standards' own voice, across the four-level scale.
Review & finalize
Edit anything you want, finalize the evaluation, and export a clean PDF — including the draft your teacher reviews before it becomes final.
EvalScribe runs natively on iPhone, iPad, and Mac — work where you are, on or off the road system.
Capture notes the way you already work.
No retraining required. Whatever your walkthrough style, EvalScribe accepts it.
Snap a photo
Photograph your handwritten notes mid-walkthrough. Smart Scan OCR converts handwriting to text — even messy handwriting, even pedagogical terms.
Dictate as you go
Speak observations directly into the app. Voice dictation captures what you saw without breaking your eye contact with the classroom.
Type directly
Prefer to type? Enter notes straight into the app — they flow into the same standards-aware drafting pipeline as scans and dictation.
Why generic AI falls short in Alaska.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for an evaluation that carries employment consequences under AS 14.20.149, "sounds polished" isn't the bar. Defensible, standards-aligned evaluations are.
| Capability | Generic AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) | EvalScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Framework awareness | ✕No concept of 4 AAC 04.200, its performance indicators, or the four-level scale in 4 AAC 19.010. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Built around Alaska's actual standards, indicator language, and four-level scale. |
| The scored set | ✕Doesn't know that Standard 1 sits outside the rated standards, and invents standards that aren't in the regulation. | ✓Scores standards 2–8 as the regulation directs, and maps evidence to the real 28 performance indicators. |
| Alaska cultural standards | ✕No awareness that districts are required to consider the Cultural Standards for Educators in every rating. | ✓Surfaces place-based and cultural evidence across the write-up, where the regulation puts it. |
| The Exemplary bar | ✕Conflates strong classroom teaching with the top rating and hands it out freely. | ✓Drafts to the real bar — Exemplary means consistently and significantly exceeding the standard, not solid Proficient teaching. |
| Local instrument variation | ✕No idea that every Alaska board adopts its own evaluation system and district performance standards. | ✓Built around the state's own standards, with the district-adoption reality named up front. |
| Note input | ✕Requires you to retype everything before the AI can do anything with it. | ✓Accepts typed notes, dictation, or photos of handwritten notes via Smart Scan OCR. |
| Feedback language | ✕Vague, generic comments that could describe any teacher. | ✓Professional, evidence-anchored feedback written in the language of Alaska's standards. |
| Data privacy | ✕Free tiers may use your inputs to train public models. | ✓Enterprise-grade Microsoft Azure. Transient processing. Zero retention. Never used for training. |
| Defensibility | ✕Output you can't trace back to evidence or standards language. | ✓Every comment is tied to evidence pulled from your notes and the standard it supports — which is what 4 AAC 19.030(a)(3) asks you to show. |
How much Alaska evaluation time could you reclaim?
Tune the inputs to your reality. The numbers update as you go.
You could reclaim approximately
hours per year
Workdays reclaimed
Total evaluations
Based on early EvalScribe users saving an average of 35 minutes per evaluation. Individual results may vary based on your current workflow. Alaska requires at least two observations a year for every nontenured teacher, so caseloads add up fast.
The best way to see it
is to watch it.
Reading about how EvalScribe drafts an evaluation isn't the same as watching it happen. The demo walks through a real observation — capture, mapping, scoring, and final export — start to finish.
The draft review screen — every comment, rating, and piece of mapped evidence is fully editable before export.
See an example EvalScribe report.
A real EvalScribe-generated evaluation, formatted exactly as it exports from the app. The workflow is the same across frameworks — useful to share with district stakeholders.
Download sample PDFWhat educational leaders are saying.
Real feedback from administrators across roles — from academic coaches to assistant superintendents.
EvalScribe is a tool that every public school principal should use. This resource literally makes multiple people out of administrators, allowing them to focus their energies on precise observation analysis and quality feedback while leaving EvalScribe to handle the mechanics. This tool will remove virtually all of the drudgery from the classroom evaluation process and would represent an excellent use of school funds.
Dr. Robert Stinson
Principal
After seeing a detailed demonstration of EvalScribe, I came away very impressed with both the concept and the execution. The platform provides administrators with a practical way to quickly capture classroom observations and generate high-quality, customized feedback that remains aligned to their evaluation framework and local expectations. What stood out most was the balance between efficiency and quality. EvalScribe has the potential to reduce administrative workload while helping school leaders provide more timely and meaningful feedback to teachers — a tool with considerable promise for schools and districts.
Glenn Brown
Director of Student Services
Game changer. Absolute game changer for school admin.
Tobin Davidson
Assistant Superintendent · 40+ years in education
This is amazing. I would pay lots of money for this. I’m serious — it’s crazy good. I look forward to using it on a regular basis next year.
Kittie Brown
Assistant Principal
Evaluators spend an inordinate amount of time recording and documenting evaluations. This app is easy to use, affordable, and incredibly efficient. It cuts the time spent recording and documenting evaluations down significantly and frees us up to handle other aspects of the job. Plus, the conference suggestions save on prep time when a conference is warranted.
Angie Brandt
Academic Coach
Built by educators, for educators.
EvalScribe was co-founded by a practicing classroom teacher and his wife — a husband-and-wife team with thirty years of combined classroom and business experience.
Anthony Neely, Ph.D.
Co-founder · Product
A tenured K–12 classroom teacher and Professional Learning Lead. District Teacher of the Year, with nearly 20 years in education and three published books.
Andrea Neely, Ph.D.
Co-founder · Business
Associate Professor of Management. Research and teaching in organizational management.
Your evaluation data stays yours.
Observation notes are processed transiently on Microsoft Azure and are not retained on our servers. Your evaluation records live locally on your device. Notes and evaluations are never used to train public AI models — which matters in a state where AS 14.20.149(h) makes evaluation information confidential and outside the public record. For districts needing a Data Processing Agreement or FERPA attestation, those are available on request.
Leading a district evaluation rollout?
Alaska districts carry the whole weight of AS 14.20.149 — the board's evaluation system, the district performance standards under 4 AAC 04.205(b), evaluator training, and consistency across every school in the borough. See how EvalScribe deploys across a district, how access codes work, and what a Data Processing Agreement looks like.
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Try EvalScribe with three free evaluations. When you're ready to keep going, pick the plan that fits your role.
Individual
For a single evaluator on their own device.
Billed annually per user
- Unlimited evaluations
- All supported frameworks, including Alaska's standards
- iOS & macOS access
- 3 free evaluations to start
School-wide
For a school with multiple evaluators.
3+ evaluators
- Everything in Individual
- 10% volume discount
- Unique access code issued to your school
- Easy distribution to your evaluators
District-wide
For districts deploying across every evaluator.
Best value for full deployments
- Everything in School-wide
- 20% volume discount
- Single access code for the entire district
- Direct support contact for rollout
All pricing shown is introductory and may change. For school and district plans, EvalScribe issues a unique access code that the buyer distributes to their evaluators. District leaders can find the full rollout picture at evalscribe.com/district.
Alaska's standards & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support Alaska's teacher standards?
Yes — all seven scored content standards from 4 AAC 04.200(b)(2)–(8) and all twenty-eight performance indicators beneath them are built in natively, each with the standards' own language across the four levels, the look-fors, and the distinctions that separate adjacent ratings. EvalScribe maps your evidence to the right standards and drafts ratings and comments in the standards' voice.
Why isn't Standard 1 scored?
Because the regulation says so. 4 AAC 19.010(b) directs districts to rate a teacher exemplary, proficient, basic, or unsatisfactory on each of the content standards at 4 AAC 04.200(b)(2)–(8). Standard 1 — the teacher's philosophy of education and its relationship to practice — is part of Alaska's professional standards, but it sits outside the rated set for teacher evaluation. It carries more weight in preparation-program contexts, where the beginning-teacher standards at 4 AAC 04.200(e) apply. A district may evaluate a teacher on additional standards it has adopted.
Are the state standards the same thing as my district's evaluation instrument?
Not necessarily. Under AS 14.20.149(a), each school board adopts its own certificated employee evaluation system, and under 4 AAC 04.205(b) each district establishes its own performance standards for the state's content standards — a district may adopt the state's performance standards as written, modify them for local goals, combine them into broader ones, or add its own. 4 AAC 19.030(b)(3) also allows a district to use a nationally recognized framework approved by the department that aligns with 4 AAC 04.200, which is why some Alaska districts run a Danielson- or Marzano-derived instrument. EvalScribe is built around the state's own standards and also ships those national frameworks; email [email protected] if your district's instrument differs.
How does EvalScribe handle the Cultural Standards for Educators?
The way the regulation frames them. 4 AAC 19.010(b) tells districts to consider the cultural standards at 4 AAC 04.200(f) when evaluating a teacher on the content standards — they are a lens on every rating, not a separate score. EvalScribe surfaces that evidence where it naturally appears: local ways of knowing and place-based instruction under Standard 3, home-and-school expectations under Standard 7, and the challenge each student needs to reach their potential under Standards 2, 5, and 6.
What does Proficient mean if it isn't the top level?
Proficient is the expected professional level — the teacher fully and consistently meets the requirements of the standard. Exemplary describes practice that consistently and significantly exceeds it. Rating a strong, consistent teacher Proficient is not underrating them; it's rating them accurately, and it keeps the top of the scale meaningful. Note also that 4 AAC 19.030(b)(4) permits a district to require a more experienced teacher to perform at a higher level than a teacher with less experience.
Does EvalScribe handle Alaska's evaluation frequency requirements?
EvalScribe handles the write-up, not the schedule. Under AS 14.20.149(b), a district's system must require at least two observations a year for each nontenured teacher, at least an annual evaluation of each tenured teacher who met district performance standards, an annual evaluation for each administrator, and it may limit tenured teachers who have consistently exceeded the standards to one evaluation every two school years. You and your district manage that calendar; EvalScribe drafts the documentation each time you observe.
What about the draft-review and comment rights in 4 AAC 19.030?
Those stay with you, and EvalScribe fits around them. The regulation requires the district to give the teacher a copy of or access to the draft evaluation at least 24 hours before it becomes final, to inform them of their right to comment in writing, to avoid retaliation for those comments, and to have both the evaluator and the teacher sign the evaluation. EvalScribe produces the draft — clean, evidence-mapped, and fully editable — that you share and then finalize.
Does EvalScribe incorporate student learning data?
No. Under 4 AAC 19.030(d) a district may adopt procedures that incorporate student learning data, and if it does, it must confer with educators to identify appropriate data for the subject and grade level. That's a district process outside the observation write-up. EvalScribe drafts the observation-based portion of the evaluation.
Does EvalScribe change who can evaluate a teacher?
No, and it can't. AS 14.20.149(c) limits evaluation to a person who holds a type B certificate (or a site administrator supervised by one), is employed by the district as an administrator, and has completed training in the district's evaluation system. 4 AAC 19.030(c) additionally requires the evaluation to be approved by a holder of an administrative certificate. EvalScribe is a drafting tool used by the people already authorized to do this work.
What happens when a teacher rates basic or unsatisfactory?
The regulation is specific, and the consequences are real — which is exactly why the write-up needs to be evidence-anchored. An unsatisfactory rating on one or more content standards means the teacher has not met district performance standards under 4 AAC 19.010(g). A basic rating on two or more standards obligates the district to provide support and assistance, and it may place the teacher on a plan of professional growth. A tenured teacher whose performance does not meet the district's standards gets a plan of improvement lasting 90 to 180 workdays, with at least two observations during it. EvalScribe drafts documentation; the decisions and the process remain the district's.
Does EvalScribe replace evaluator judgment?
No. EvalScribe drafts evidence-mapped evaluations and suggested ratings. The evaluator reviews, edits, and finalizes every document. The professional judgment is always yours — EvalScribe just removes the typing.
Can the generated evaluations be edited?
Yes, fully. Every comment, every rating, and every piece of mapped evidence inside a draft evaluation can be edited before you export the final PDF. You are always the last set of eyes on the document.
Is observation data stored?
Your notes are processed transiently on Microsoft Azure and are not retained on EvalScribe's servers. Your evaluation records sit locally on your device under a local-first architecture. Your data is never used to train public AI models. Alaska treats evaluation information as confidential and outside the public record under AS 14.20.149(h), so this matters. For more detail, see our Privacy Policy.
How is EvalScribe different from ChatGPT or Claude?
Generic AI tools have no built-in knowledge of 4 AAC 04.200. They invent standards that don't exist, score the philosophy-of-education standard that Alaska doesn't rate, miss the cultural standards entirely, hand out the top rating freely, and produce vague comments that miss the level distinctions the regulation requires. EvalScribe is built around Alaska's actual standards and four-level scale — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds them — from capture through final export.
Where can I read the official Alaska sources?
The standards themselves are at 4 AAC 04.200, with district performance standards at 4 AAC 04.205. The evaluation rules are in 4 AAC 19, and the statutory basis is AS 14.20.149. DEED keeps the statutes, regulations, and the Cultural Standards for Educators together at education.alaska.gov.
Which other state frameworks are supported?
EvalScribe ships with frameworks from all 50 states and Washington D.C., plus general models such as Danielson, Marzano, Stronge, CEL 5D+, NIET, and Kim Marshall. The complete list is available at evalscribe.com/frameworks.
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