AI-powered teacher evaluations
for Idaho educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around Idaho's statewide framework — the Charlotte Danielson Framework for Teaching — natively, with all four domains and the Unsatisfactory to Distinguished scale, in the framework's own language.
Saved per evaluation
All Danielson domains, built in
Professional practice share
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.
Idaho-specific
All four Danielson domains and the Unsatisfactory-to-Distinguished scale, 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 Idaho evaluator.
Idaho's Danielson framework. EvalScribe is built around all four domains.
Idaho's statewide evaluation framework is the Charlotte Danielson Framework for Teaching, Second Edition — the minimum standard for teacher evaluation in Idaho public schools under IDAPA 08.02.02.120. It organizes practice into four domains, each scored on a four-level scale from Unsatisfactory to Distinguished. EvalScribe is built around the Danielson framework's own structure and language.
The Danielson Framework for Teaching (Second Edition)
The professional-practice portion of an Idaho evaluation is measured against the four Danielson domains, described across four levels of performance. EvalScribe maps your observation evidence to the component it supports and drafts a rating and evidence-anchored feedback in the framework's own language.
The four domains.
Planning and Preparation
Before the lessonKnowledge of content, students, and resources, and coherent instructional design and assessment planning.
Classroom Environment
The classroomA culture of respect and rapport, clear expectations, managed routines, and a space that supports learning.
Instruction
Teaching in actionClear communication, strong questioning and discussion, student engagement, and using assessment to adjust instruction.
Professional Responsibilities
Beyond the lessonReflection on practice, accurate records, communication with families, professional growth, and contribution to the school.
Professional practice and student achievement
Idaho's summative rating combines two portions. Professional practice can count for up to 67% and includes at least two documented observations (the first completed before January 1) plus at least one additional measure of professional practice — which may be student input, parent or guardian input, or a portfolio. Measurable student achievement counts for 33%. At least one summative evaluation is completed no later than June 1.
Domain or component ratings may be weighted based on a teacher's individualized professional learning plan; when weighting toward only some domains, the evaluation must show how that aligns with the plan.
The four Danielson rating levels.
Unsatisfactory
Basic
Proficient
Distinguished
In Idaho's career ladder, a Proficient or Distinguished summative rating is tied to advancement, so the rating carries real weight.
How EvalScribe handles the Idaho framework
All four Danielson domains are built into the tool, each with the framework's own language across the four levels — Unsatisfactory, Basic, Proficient, and Distinguished — and the distinctions that separate adjacent ratings. EvalScribe maps the evidence from your observation notes to the component it supports and drafts best-fit ratings and evidence-anchored feedback, so the write-up is defensible and traceable back to what you observed.
Scope of the score. EvalScribe drafts the professional-practice piece — the Danielson domains, which make up the observation portion of the rating (up to 67%). The measurable student achievement portion (33%) and the combination of both into the summative rating are handled in your district's process and reported through the Career Ladder Data System, not the app.
Built for Idaho's flexibility. Because Idaho lets districts weight domains or components toward a teacher's individualized professional learning plan, EvalScribe drafts each domain so you can apply the weighting your plan calls for. If your district layers additional local measures onto the state framework and you'd like to see them supported, email [email protected].
How EvalScribe works with the Danielson framework.
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 components
EvalScribe identifies which Danielson component each note supports, across all four domains.
Suggested ratings & comments
Get draft ratings and feedback language in the rubric's own voice, across the four-level scale.
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 DC-aware drafting pipeline as scans and dictation.
Why generic AI falls short for the Danielson framework.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for Danielson documentation, "sounds polished" isn't the bar. Defensible, standards-aligned evaluations are.
| Capability | Generic AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) | EvalScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Framework awareness | ✕No concept of the Danielson framework, its four domains, or its four-level scale. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Built around the Danielson framework's actual structure, component language, and four-level scale. |
| Component mapping | ✕Hallucinates domain and component labels and invents rubric language that doesn't exist in the framework. | ✓Maps evidence to the real Danielson components using the actual framework loaded into the app. |
| Scope of the score | ✕Assumes the observation is the whole rating, ignoring the separate student achievement portion. | ✓Drafts the professional-practice piece; leaves the 33% student achievement and summative to your district's process. |
| Idaho requirements | ✕No awareness of Idaho's two-observation minimum, the before-January-1 rule, or the June 1 summative. | ✓Built for the Idaho evaluation cycle and the framework the Career Ladder relies on. |
| Rating levels | ✕Defaults to generic good-to-bad framing that misses the Danielson levels. | ✓Drafts toward the four Danielson levels — Unsatisfactory, Basic, Proficient, Distinguished. |
| 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 Danielson framework. |
| 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 component it supports. |
How much Idaho 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 Danielson 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. For districts needing a Data Processing Agreement or FERPA attestation, those are available on request.
Simple, transparent pricing.
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 Danielson framework
- 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.
Idaho's framework & EvalScribe — common questions.
What framework does Idaho use for teacher evaluation?
Idaho's statewide framework is the Charlotte Danielson Framework for Teaching, Second Edition — the minimum standard for teacher evaluation in Idaho public schools under IDAPA 08.02.02.120. EvalScribe is built around all four Danielson domains and drafts ratings and feedback across the four levels: Unsatisfactory, Basic, Proficient, and Distinguished.
How much of an Idaho evaluation is student achievement?
Measurable student achievement must count for 33% of the summative evaluation, with professional practice making up the rest — up to 67%. EvalScribe drafts the professional-practice piece. The student achievement portion and the combination into the summative rating are handled in your district's process.
What are Idaho's evaluation requirements?
A compliant Idaho evaluation includes at least two documented observations of professional practice (the first before January 1), at least one additional measure of professional practice (student input, parent or guardian input, or a portfolio), at least one measure of student achievement, and a summative evaluation completed no later than June 1. EvalScribe helps you build the observation documentation that anchors it.
Does EvalScribe calculate my summative rating?
No. EvalScribe drafts the professional-practice portion — the Danielson domain ratings and evidence-anchored feedback from your observations. The 33% student achievement portion and the combination into the summative rating are handled in your district's process and reported through the Career Ladder Data System, not the app.
Can I weight the domains toward a teacher's learning plan?
Idaho allows domain or component ratings to be weighted based on a teacher's individualized professional learning plan; when weighting toward only some domains, the evaluation must show how that aligns with the plan. EvalScribe drafts each domain fully, so you can apply the weighting your plan and district policy call for.
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. 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 Danielson framework as Idaho uses it. They invent components, hand out Distinguished freely, and produce vague comments that miss the level distinctions the framework requires. EvalScribe is built around the Danielson framework's actual structure and scale — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds it — from capture through final export.
Where can I read the official Idaho evaluation sources?
The Idaho State Board of Education maintains the Teacher Evaluation page, and the requirements live in IDAPA 08.02.02.120. The State Department of Education offers Danielson Framework training and resources for evaluators.
Which other 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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