AI-powered teacher evaluations
for Connecticut educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around Connecticut's CCT Rubric for Effective Teaching natively — all four domains, all twelve indicators, and the Below Standard to Exemplary scale, in the rubric's own language.
Saved per evaluation
All 4 CCT domains, built in
To capture notes
Evaluator-controlled ratings
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.
Connecticut-specific
All 4 CCT domains and 12 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 a Connecticut evaluator.
Connecticut evaluates on the CCT Rubric. EvalScribe is built around all four domains.
The CCT Rubric for Effective Teaching (2017) — Connecticut's Common Core of Teaching instrument — is a widely used observation-of-practice rubric for teacher evaluation under Connecticut General Statutes § 10-151b. Under the Connecticut Guidelines for Educator and Leader Evaluation and Support 2023 (in effect since 2024–25), each district builds its own evaluation and support plan around a Professional Growth Cycle and may continue using the CCT Rubric. Four domains and twelve indicators, each scored on a four-level scale. Indicators are scored holistically on a best-fit basis, and Exemplary isn't Proficient done louder — it turns on students taking greater ownership and the teacher leading beyond the classroom.
CCT Rubric for Effective Teaching (2017)
Two domains center on what happens in the room — classroom environment and instruction — while planning and professional responsibilities round out a full picture of practice. Beneath the four domains sit twelve indicators, each described across four performance levels from Below Standard to Exemplary. EvalScribe is built around all of them, in the rubric's own language.
Four domains. Twelve indicators.
Classroom Environment, Student Engagement & Commitment to Learning
3 indicators- 1a · Creating a positive learning environment
- 1b · Developmentally appropriate standards of behavior
- 1c · Maximizing instructional time
Planning for Active Learning
3 indicators- 2a · Planning content aligned to standards & prior knowledge
- 2b · Planning to cognitively engage students
- 2c · Selecting appropriate assessment strategies
Instruction for Active Learning
3 indicators- 3a · Implementing instructional content
- 3b · Leading students to construct meaning & apply learning
- 3c · Assessing learning, feedback & adjusting instruction
Professional Responsibilities & Teacher Leadership
3 indicators- 4a · Engaging in continuous professional learning
- 4b · Collaborating to sustain a professional learning environment
- 4c · Working with colleagues, students & families on school climate
The four-level performance scale.
Below Standard
Developing
Proficient
Expected professional standardExemplary
How EvalScribe handles the CCT Rubric
All four domains and all twelve indicators are built into the tool, each with the CCT Rubric's own language across the four levels, look-fors, and the distinctions that separate Developing from Proficient and Proficient from Exemplary. EvalScribe maps your evidence to the relevant indicators and drafts holistic, best-fit ratings and feedback in the rubric's voice — drafting to the real Exemplary bar (students taking ownership, the teacher leading beyond the classroom) rather than defaulting to generic "great teaching" language.
Honest scope on Connecticut's model: the CCT observation of practice is one part of your district's educator evaluation and support plan. Under the Connecticut Guidelines 2023, that plan is built around a Professional Growth Cycle and is holistic and locally determined rather than a fixed set of weighted percentages — your district's PDEC (Professional Development and Evaluation Committee) sets the specific structure. EvalScribe drafts the observation-of-practice ratings and comments; the overall evaluation and support determination is completed in your district's plan, not the app. Domains 2 and 4 draw on planning artifacts and professional evidence beyond the classroom, and other parts of the plan — such as student learning and stakeholder feedback — stay with the teacher and evaluator. EvalScribe is built around the CCT Rubric for Effective Teaching; the Service Delivery rubric (SESS staff) and the Leader rubric are separate instruments.
On the 2023 Guidelines: Connecticut adopted new Guidelines for Educator and Leader Evaluation and Support in 2023 (in effect since 2024–25, under C.G.S. § 10-151b as amended by Public Act 23-159), replacing the earlier SEED-era model. They center evaluation on a Professional Growth Cycle and give districts more latitude — a district may keep using the CCT Rubric or adopt one aligned with an externally referenced standard. EvalScribe is built around the state-published CCT Rubric for Effective Teaching 2017.
How EvalScribe works with the CCT Rubric.
A five-step path from the back of the classroom to a finished, rubric-aligned evaluation.
Observe the classroom
Walkthrough or formal observation — 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 indicators
EvalScribe identifies which of the 12 CCT indicators each note supports, across all four domains.
Suggested ratings & comments
Get draft holistic ratings and feedback language in the CCT Rubric's own voice, level by level.
Review & finalize
Edit anything you want, finalize the evaluation, and export a clean PDF for your records.
EvalScribe runs natively on iPhone, iPad, and Mac — work where you are.
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 CCT-aware drafting pipeline as scans and dictation.
Why generic AI falls short for the CCT Rubric.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for CCT documentation, "sounds polished" isn't the bar. Defensible, rubric-aligned evaluations are.
| Capability | Generic AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) | EvalScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Framework awareness | ✕No concept of the CCT Rubric, its 12 indicators, or its four-level scale. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Built around the CCT Rubric's actual structure, indicator language, and four-level scale. |
| Indicator mapping | ✕Hallucinates indicator labels and invents rubric language that doesn't exist in the CCT. | ✓Maps evidence to the real 12 CCT indicators using the actual rubric loaded into the app. |
| Holistic scoring | ✕Inconsistent ratings between teachers — and between sessions on the same teacher. | ✓Suggests holistic, best-fit ratings across the four levels based on the preponderance of captured evidence. |
| The Exemplary bar | ✕Conflates "good teaching" with Exemplary and hands out top ratings freely. | ✓Drafts to the real CCT bar — Exemplary turns on student ownership and teacher leadership beyond the classroom. |
| Overall evaluation | ✕No idea the CCT observation is one part of a district's broader evaluation and support plan. | ✓Drafts the observation-of-practice ratings and comments. The overall evaluation is completed in your district's plan under the CT Guidelines 2023. |
| 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 the CCT Rubric. |
| 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 rubric language. | ✓Every comment is tied to evidence pulled from your notes and the indicator it supports. |
How much Connecticut 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.
The best way to see it
is to watch it.
Reading about how EvalScribe drafts a CCT Rubric evaluation isn't the same as watching it happen. The demo walks through a real observation — capture, mapping, holistic 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. For districts needing a Data Processing Agreement or FERPA attestation, those are available on request.
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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 the CCT Rubric
- 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.
The CCT Rubric & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support the full CCT Rubric for Effective Teaching?
Yes — all four domains and all twelve indicators are built in natively, each with the CCT Rubric's own language across the four levels, the look-fors, and the distinctions that separate adjacent ratings. EvalScribe maps your evidence to the right indicators and drafts holistic ratings and comments in the rubric's voice.
Is the CCT Rubric 2017 still current under the 2023 Guidelines?
Yes. The CCT Rubric for Effective Teaching 2017 remains the state-published instrument. Connecticut adopted new Guidelines for Educator and Leader Evaluation and Support in 2023 (implementation beginning 2024–25) that give districts more latitude — a district may keep using the CCT Rubric or adopt one that is aligned with or tied to an externally referenced standard. EvalScribe is built around the CCT Rubric for Effective Teaching.
Does EvalScribe calculate the overall evaluation rating?
No — and we're deliberately clear about that. The CCT observation of practice is one part of your district's educator evaluation and support plan. Under the Connecticut Guidelines 2023, that plan is built around a Professional Growth Cycle and is holistic and locally determined rather than a fixed set of weighted percentages. EvalScribe drafts the observation-of-practice ratings and comments; the overall determination is completed in your district's plan, not the app.
How are the indicators scored?
Holistically. The evaluator determines a single best-fit level for each indicator based on the preponderance of evidence across its attributes — not by checking off every attribute line by line. EvalScribe drafts to that best-fit logic, weighing the evidence you captured against the four levels.
What about Domains 2 and 4 (planning, professional responsibilities)?
Domains 1 and 3 are the primary in-classroom observation focus. Domain 2 (Planning) and Domain 4 (Professional Responsibilities & Teacher Leadership) draw on planning artifacts and professional evidence beyond a single classroom observation. EvalScribe helps you draft the write-up wherever you have evidence; you supply the non-observation evidence those domains rely on.
What about Student Learning Goals/Objectives and parent/peer feedback?
Those sit outside the CCT observation rubric and are handled within your district's broader evaluation and support plan, alongside the teacher and evaluator. Under the Connecticut Guidelines 2023, the specific components are locally determined by your district's PDEC. EvalScribe handles the observation-of-practice write-up — the indicator-level ratings and the feedback language.
Does EvalScribe replace evaluator judgment?
No. EvalScribe drafts evidence-mapped evaluations and suggested holistic ratings. The evaluator reviews, edits, and finalizes every document. The professional judgment is always yours — EvalScribe just removes the typing.
What about the Service Delivery rubric or the Leader rubric?
EvalScribe's Connecticut framework is built around the CCT Rubric for Effective Teaching — classroom teachers. The CCT Rubric for Effective Service Delivery (for school psychologists, speech and language pathologists, social workers, and counselors) and the CT Leader Evaluation & Support Rubric (for administrators) are separate instruments. If you evaluate on one of those, let us know at [email protected].
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. For more detail, see our Privacy Policy.
How is EvalScribe different from ChatGPT or Claude?
Generic AI tools have no built-in understanding of the CCT Rubric. They invent indicators that don't exist, score inconsistently, hand out Exemplary freely, and produce vague comments that miss the level distinctions the rubric requires. EvalScribe is built around the CCT's actual structure and four-level scale — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds it — from capture through final export.
Where can I read the official CCT and CT Guidelines sources?
The primary sources are maintained by the Connecticut State Department of Education: the Educator and Leader Evaluation pages, the CCT Rubric for Effective Teaching 2017, and the Connecticut Guidelines for Educator and Leader Evaluation and Support 2023. Statutory authority is Connecticut General Statutes § 10-151b.
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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