AI-powered teacher evaluations
for Kansas educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around Kansas's KEEP model natively — the four Kansas Educator Evaluation Protocol constructs and the Highly Effective to Ineffective scale, in the framework's own language.
Saved per evaluation
KEEP constructs, 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.
Kansas-specific
All four KEEP constructs and the four-level rating 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 a Kansas evaluator.
The Kansas Educator Evaluation Protocol. EvalScribe is built around all four constructs.
KEEP — the Kansas Educator Evaluation Protocol — is the model teacher evaluation system published by the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) and delivered through the KEEP2 web application. It organizes teaching into four constructs, each rated on a four-level scale from Ineffective to Highly Effective. EvalScribe is built around KEEP's constructs and language.
Four teacher constructs
KEEP's four constructs are aligned to the InTASC model core teaching standards and cover the critical aspects of teaching. Evaluators gather multiple sources of evidence and record a rating for each construct. EvalScribe maps your observation evidence to the construct it supports and drafts a rating and evidence-anchored feedback in KEEP's own language.
The four constructs.
Learner and Learning
Students & environmentPlanning instruction for the learning and developmental levels of all students, fostering individual differences, and establishing a classroom environment conducive to learning.
Content Knowledge
What is taughtDemonstrating thorough knowledge of content and providing a variety of innovative applications of that knowledge.
Instructional Practice
Teaching in actionUsing methods and techniques effective in meeting student needs, using varied assessments to measure learner progress, and delivering comprehensive instruction.
Professional Responsibility
Beyond the lessonEngaging in reflection and continuous growth, and participating in collaboration and leadership within the school community.
The four-level rating scale.
Highly Effective
Consistently highEffective
More than adequateDeveloping
Sometimes adequateIneffective
Rarely adequateHow EvalScribe handles KEEP
The four constructs are built into the tool, each with KEEP's own language across the four levels — Highly Effective, Effective, Developing, and Ineffective — and the key indicators that separate adjacent ratings. EvalScribe maps the evidence from your notes to the construct it supports and drafts best-fit ratings and feedback, so the write-up is defensible and traceable back to what you observed.
Scope of the score. KEEP combines a Professional Practice summary rating with a Student Growth Measures summary rating to produce a teacher's Final Summative Performance Rating. EvalScribe drafts the professional-practice piece — the construct ratings and evidence-anchored feedback from your observations. The student-growth summary and the final summative combination are handled in your district's KEEP2 process, not in the app.
KEEP or an approved alternative. Kansas does not mandate a single instrument. KSDE encourages districts to use KEEP, but a district may adopt its own evaluation system approved under the Kansas Educator Evaluation Guidelines. Because EvalScribe is built around the four InTASC-aligned constructs and the four-level scale that Kansas systems share, it fits whether your district uses KEEP or an approved local alternative. Confirm your district's adopted instrument, and if it would help to see a specific local system supported, email [email protected].
How EvalScribe works with KEEP.
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 constructs
EvalScribe identifies which of the four KEEP constructs each note supports.
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 KEEP.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for KEEP documentation, "sounds polished" isn't the bar. Defensible, construct-aligned evaluations are.
| Capability | Generic AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) | EvalScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Framework awareness | ✕No concept of KEEP, its four constructs, or its four-level scale. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Built around the four KEEP constructs and the Highly Effective-to-Ineffective scale. |
| Construct mapping | ✕Invents construct labels and rubric language that doesn't match KEEP. | ✓Maps evidence to the four InTASC-aligned KEEP constructs using the actual framework loaded into the app. |
| Scope of the score | ✕Assumes the observation is the whole rating, ignoring the separate Student Growth Measures piece. | ✓Drafts the professional-practice piece; leaves the student-growth summary and final summative to your KEEP2 process. |
| Key-indicator distinctions | ✕Defaults to generic good-to-bad framing that misses KEEP's level descriptors. | ✓Drafts to KEEP's actual key indicators, distinguishing Developing from Effective and Effective from Highly Effective. |
| KEEP or an alternative | ✕Assumes one statewide form, missing that districts may adopt an approved local system. | ✓Built on the four constructs and four-level scale Kansas systems share, so it fits KEEP or an approved alternative. |
| 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 KEEP constructs. |
| 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 Kansas 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 KEEP 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 KEEP
- 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.
KEEP & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support Kansas's KEEP framework?
Yes. EvalScribe is built around the four constructs of the Kansas Educator Evaluation Protocol — Learner and Learning, Content Knowledge, Instructional Practice, and Professional Responsibility. It maps your observation evidence to the right construct and drafts a rating and feedback for each, using KEEP's own language across the four levels (Highly Effective, Effective, Developing, Ineffective).
Does EvalScribe calculate my KEEP summative rating?
No. KEEP combines a Professional Practice summary rating with a Student Growth Measures summary rating to produce a teacher's Final Summative Performance Rating. EvalScribe drafts the professional-practice piece — the construct ratings and evidence-anchored feedback from your observations. The student-growth summary and the final summative combination are handled in your district's KEEP2 process, not in the app.
Can I use EvalScribe if my district uses its own evaluation system?
Often, yes. Kansas does not mandate a single instrument — KSDE encourages districts to use KEEP, but a district may adopt its own system approved under the Kansas Educator Evaluation Guidelines. EvalScribe is built on the four InTASC-aligned constructs and the four-level scale that Kansas systems share, so it fits whether your district uses KEEP or an approved alternative. Confirm your district's adopted instrument, and email [email protected] if you'd like to see a specific local system supported.
Does EvalScribe require state assessment data?
No. EvalScribe works from your observation evidence to draft the professional-practice ratings and feedback. Kansas does not require state assessments for determining student performance — state assessments are only one possible Student Growth Measure, used for teachers of tested grades and subjects. How your district measures student growth is set locally and handled in KEEP2.
What are the four KEEP rating levels?
KSDE recommends four performance levels: Highly Effective (consistently high performance), Effective (usually more than adequate), Developing (sometimes adequate), and Ineffective (rarely adequate). EvalScribe drafts construct ratings across these four levels, distinguishing adjacent levels using KEEP's key indicators rather than generic good-to-bad framing.
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 KEEP. They invent constructs that don't exist, hand out Highly Effective freely, and produce vague comments that miss the key-indicator distinctions the framework requires. EvalScribe is built around the four KEEP constructs and the four-level scale — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds them — from capture through final export.
Where can I read the official KEEP sources?
The Kansas State Department of Education maintains the Educator Evaluations page and the KEEP protocols and instruments in the KEEP Repository. The governing statutes are in Chapter 72 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated.
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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