AI-powered teacher evaluations
for Kentucky educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around Kentucky's Framework for Teaching — the four Performance Measures required under KRS 156.557 and the twenty-two components underneath them, exactly as your district's Certified Evaluation Plan expects.
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Built in natively
To capture notes
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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.
KyFfT aligned
The four Performance Measures and twenty-two Kentucky Framework for Teaching components 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 Kentucky evaluator working through observations and summative cycles under your district's Certified Evaluation Plan.
Kentucky's Framework for Teaching, handled natively.
Kentucky's teacher evaluation system runs under KRS 156.557 and 704 KAR 3:370. The state defines four required Performance Measures — Planning, Environment, Instruction, and Professionalism — and each district's Certified Evaluation Plan spells out how the Kentucky Framework for Teaching applies locally. EvalScribe is built around all four Performance Measures and the twenty-two Kentucky Framework for Teaching components underneath, ready for the district CEP your evaluators actually work from.
Kentucky Framework for Teaching (KyFfT)
The Kentucky Framework for Teaching — the rubric backbone of what many Kentucky educators still call PGES — is built on Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching. Kentucky adapts the framework into four required Performance Measures (Planning, Environment, Instruction, Professionalism) at the state level, with the full twenty-two Kentucky Framework for Teaching components sitting underneath. Each district's Certified Evaluation Plan defines the specific observation cadence, sources of evidence, and summative process; the Framework for Teaching and its rating scale are constant across districts.
Kentucky Framework for Teaching — quick facts
- Framework name
- Kentucky Framework for Teaching (KyFfT), formerly branded as PGES (Professional Growth and Effectiveness System)
- Governing body
- Kentucky Board of Education (KBE); Kentucky Department of Education (KDE)
- Statutory authority
- KRS 156.557; 704 KAR 3:370 (Kentucky Framework for Personnel Evaluation)
- Foundation
- Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching
- State-required structure
- 4 Performance Measures: Planning, Environment, Instruction, Professionalism
- Rubric detail
- 22 Kentucky Framework for Teaching components underneath the four Performance Measures
- Rating scale
- 4 levels — Ineffective, Developing, Accomplished, Exemplary
- District plan
- Certified Evaluation Plan (CEP), developed by a 50/50 committee and approved by KDE and the local board
- Summative cadence
- Non-tenured teachers annually; tenured teachers at least once every five years (HB 48, 2025, amending KRS 156.557), with formative in intervening years
The four Performance Measures.
Planning
6 components (1a-1f)Environment
5 components (2a-2e)Instruction
5 components (3a-3e)Professionalism
6 components (4a-4f)The four-level rating scale.
Ineffective
Developing
Accomplished
Exemplary
How EvalScribe handles the Kentucky Framework for Teaching
All four Performance Measures (Planning, Environment, Instruction, Professionalism) and all twenty-two Kentucky Framework for Teaching components are built into the tool. The four-level rating scale (Ineffective, Developing, Accomplished, Exemplary) is applied with rubric-aware logic that distinguishes between adjacent levels the way the Kentucky framework actually intends — particularly the Accomplished-to-Exemplary distinction, where student ownership of learning becomes the deciding factor.
Kentucky is a district-flexibility state: each Certified Evaluation Plan spells out the specific observation cadence, sources of evidence, and summative expectations for that district. EvalScribe handles the framework-aligned documentation for observation write-ups regardless of which specific CEP structure your district uses. Self-Reflection, Professional Growth Plans, and Student Learning Focus documents remain the evaluator and teacher's own work, produced outside the tool.
How EvalScribe works in Kentucky.
A five-step path from the back of the classroom to a finished, KyFfT-aligned evaluation ready for your district CEP.
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 KyFfT
EvalScribe identifies which of the four Performance Measures and twenty-two Kentucky Framework for Teaching components each note supports.
Suggested ratings & comments
Get draft performance-level ratings and professional feedback language in the voice of Kentucky's Framework for Teaching.
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 KyFfT-aware drafting pipeline as scans and dictation.
Why generic AI falls short for Kentucky.
Pasting your observation notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for Kentucky Framework for Teaching documentation, "sounds polished" isn't the bar. Defensible, framework-aligned evaluations that your CEP will stand behind are.
| Capability | Generic AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) | EvalScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Framework awareness | ✕No built-in understanding of the Kentucky Framework for Teaching or the four Performance Measures required under KRS 156.557. | ✓Built around the Kentucky Framework for Teaching specifically — four Performance Measures, twenty-two components, and Kentucky's actual rating scale. |
| Component mapping | ✕Hallucinates component numbers (1a, 2c, etc.) and invents rubric language that doesn't match the actual Kentucky Framework for Teaching. | ✓Maps evidence to the actual twenty-two KyFfT components across the four Performance Measures using the loaded rubric. |
| Rubric scoring | ✕Inconsistent ratings between teachers — and between sessions on the same teacher. | ✓Suggests Kentucky-appropriate Ineffective / Developing / Accomplished / Exemplary ratings based on captured evidence. |
| Level distinctions | ✕Defaults to generic "good/great" framing that misses the Accomplished-to-Exemplary distinction the Kentucky Framework for Teaching actually requires. | ✓Rubric-aware scoring that meaningfully distinguishes between adjacent performance levels in the Kentucky framework's own terms. |
| 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 voice of the Kentucky Framework for Teaching. |
| Evaluator workflow | ✕No concept of walkthroughs, formal observations, or pre/post conferences. | ✓Built around the actual evaluator workflow, from capture to final exported PDF. |
| 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 Kentucky Framework for Teaching component it supports. |
How much Kentucky Framework for Teaching 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 Kentucky Framework for Teaching 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.
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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 Kentucky Framework for Teaching
- 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.
Kentucky Framework for Teaching & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support the Kentucky Framework for Teaching?
Yes — the Kentucky Framework for Teaching is built in natively. All four state-required Performance Measures (Planning, Environment, Instruction, Professionalism) and all twenty-two Kentucky Framework for Teaching components are loaded into the tool, with the four-level rating scale Kentucky actually uses (Ineffective, Developing, Accomplished, Exemplary).
Is this what people used to call PGES?
Yes. PGES — the Professional Growth and Effectiveness System — was the branded name of the earlier iteration of Kentucky's evaluation system launched in 2013-2015. The current statutory language under 704 KAR 3:370 refers to the Kentucky Framework for Personnel Evaluation, with the Kentucky Framework for Teaching (KyFfT) serving as the underlying rubric. Many Kentucky educators still refer to the whole system as PGES colloquially. Structurally, the rubric backbone has stayed consistent: four Performance Measures, twenty-two components, four-level rating scale.
Where can I read the official Kentucky evaluation framework and rubric?
The framework is maintained by the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) under Kentucky Board of Education oversight. Primary sources:
704 KAR 3:370 — Kentucky Framework for Personnel Evaluation
KDE Growth and Evaluation for Teachers and Other Professionals
Kentucky Initial Certified Evaluation Training (ICE)
Statutory authority: KRS 156.557.
My district's Certified Evaluation Plan looks different from other Kentucky districts. Does EvalScribe still work?
Yes. Every Kentucky district develops its own CEP through a 50/50 evaluation committee, so observation cadence, sources of evidence, and summative structure vary from one district to the next. What stays constant across districts is the underlying framework: the four Performance Measures required by state, the twenty-two Kentucky Framework for Teaching components, and the four-level rating scale. EvalScribe handles the framework-aligned documentation for observation write-ups regardless of the specific CEP structure your district uses.
Does EvalScribe replace evaluator judgment?
No. EvalScribe drafts evidence-mapped evaluations and suggested performance-level ratings. The evaluator reviews, edits, and finalizes every document. Kentucky requires certified evaluator training under 704 KAR 3:370 — the professional judgment stays with you, EvalScribe just removes the typing.
Does EvalScribe handle Self-Reflection, Professional Growth Plans, and Student Learning Focus documents?
EvalScribe is focused on the observation write-up — the framework-aligned documentation piece that eats the most evaluator time. Self-Reflection, Professional Growth Plans with SMART goals, and the Student Learning Focus are the teacher's own reflective work and stay outside the tool. What EvalScribe handles is the observation evidence to rubric-aligned narrative translation across the four Performance Measures.
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 or paste content into your district's evaluation management system.
Does EvalScribe support walkthroughs, formal observations, and mini-observations?
Yes. Whatever your district CEP calls the observation type, EvalScribe handles it. Brief walkthroughs, mini-observations, formal announced and unannounced observations, and peer observations all flow through the same capture-and-draft pipeline, so documentation across observation types stays consistent throughout the year.
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 Kentucky Framework for Teaching. They invent component numbers and produce vague comments that miss the Accomplished-to-Exemplary distinction the Kentucky framework actually requires. EvalScribe is built around the actual four Performance Measures and twenty-two components — and the district CEP workflow that surrounds them — from capture through final export.
Is EvalScribe available for iOS and macOS?
Yes. Individual evaluators can download EvalScribe from the Apple App Store on both iOS and macOS, with a free trial that includes three evaluations.
Can schools or districts purchase licenses for multiple evaluators?
Yes. School-wide licensing starts at three or more evaluators ($90/user/year), and district-wide licensing is $80/admin/year. When you order, EvalScribe issues a unique access code that you distribute to your evaluators — no separate provisioning required. Email [email protected] to get started.
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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Page maintained by Anthony D. Neely, Ph.D. — practicing K–12 educator with nearly 20 years in the classroom, 2025–2026 Walker County Distinguished Teacher of the Year, and co-founder of EvalScribe. Framework details verified against current KDE source documents.
Page last reviewed: July 28, 2026
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