AI-powered teacher evaluations
for Louisiana educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around both of Louisiana's teacher rubrics natively — the current Louisiana Educator Rubric under LEADS and legacy Compass — in each rubric's own language.
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Compass + LEADS, built in
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.
Louisiana-specific
Both the Louisiana Educator Rubric and legacy Compass, 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 Louisiana evaluator.
Louisiana is moving from Compass to LEADS. EvalScribe is built around both.
Under LEADS — the Louisiana Educator Advancement and Development System — the Louisiana Educator Rubric (LER) became the statewide teacher observation rubric in 2025–26, after a 2023–24 pilot and a 2024–25 learning year. It replaces Compass, now Louisiana's legacy system. Both operate under Bulletin 130. EvalScribe supports the current Louisiana Educator Rubric and legacy Compass natively — so you're covered whichever your system uses, and through the transition between them.
Louisiana Educator Rubric (LER)
Adapted from the NIET Teaching and Learning Standards Rubric, the LER organizes teaching into four domains and twenty-three indicators. It is scored holistically on a five-point scale — the rubric defines performance at levels 1, 3, and 5, and observers assign a 2 or a 4 by professional judgment when the evidence falls in between. It is explicitly not a checklist: ratings rest on the preponderance of evidence across interconnected indicators, and the Exemplary level turns on strong student ownership of learning.
Four domains. Twenty-three indicators.
Instruction
12 indicators- 1 Standards & Objectives
- 2 Motivating Students
- 3 Presenting Instructional Content
- 4 Lesson Structure & Pacing
- 5 Activities & Materials
- 6 Questioning
- 7 Academic Feedback
- 8 Grouping Students
- 9 Teacher Content Knowledge
- 10 Teacher Knowledge of Students
- 11 Thinking
- 12 Problem-Solving
Planning
3 indicators- 1 Instructional Plans
- 2 Student Work
- 3 Assessment
Environment
4 indicators- 1 Expectations
- 2 Engaging Students & Managing Behavior
- 3 Environment
- 4 Respectful Conditions
Professionalism
4 indicators- 1 Growing & Developing Professionally
- 2 Reflecting on Teaching
- 3 School Involvement
- 4 School Responsibilities
The five-point scale — anchored at 1, 3, and 5.
Unsatisfactory
Emerging
Judgment levelProficient
At expectationsStrong
Judgment levelExemplary
Student ownershipHow EvalScribe handles the Louisiana Educator Rubric
All four domains and all twenty-three indicators are built in, each with the LER's own language across the defined levels (1, 3, 5) and the descriptors that inform a 2 or a 4. EvalScribe maps your evidence to the relevant indicators and drafts best-fit ratings and feedback holistically — on the preponderance of evidence, not a checkbox tally — and reserves Exemplary for genuine student ownership of learning rather than handing out the top level for strong teaching alone.
Compass
Compass is Louisiana's legacy evaluation system, built on Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching. Its observation rubric centered on five key components across three domains, rated on a four-level scale from Ineffective to Highly Effective. Compass focused on selected instructional components and did not include a professionalism domain — one of the gaps the newer Louisiana Educator Rubric was designed to close. EvalScribe keeps Compass built in for systems still working in the legacy rubric or referencing legacy records.
Three domains. Five key components.
Planning & Preparation
1 component- 1c Setting Instructional Outcomes
Classroom Environment
1 component- 2c Managing Classroom Procedures
Instruction
3 components- 3b Questioning & Discussion Techniques
- 3c Engaging Students in Learning
- 3d Using Assessment in Instruction
The four-level Compass scale.
Ineffective
Effective: Emerging
Effective: Proficient
Expected standardHighly Effective
Student ownershipHow EvalScribe handles Compass
The five Compass components are built in with the Danielson-based language across the four levels, so systems on the legacy rubric can draft evidence-mapped ratings and comments in Compass's own terms. If your system has moved to the Louisiana Educator Rubric, that's the framework to select; Compass remains available for legacy work and records.
Honest scope: the observation is one part of a LEADS evaluation
Whichever rubric you use, the classroom observation is the professional-practice component of the evaluation — not the whole thing. Under Bulletin 130, a teacher's overall Level of Effectiveness (Ineffective, Effective: Emerging, Effective: Proficient, or Highly Effective) also reflects a student-growth measure, and the final determination is made through your system's LEADS process. EvalScribe drafts the observation ratings and comments; it does not calculate student growth or the final Level of Effectiveness, and it is not connected to the state's LES data system — you transfer finalized content into your system of record.
Related instruments, honestly scoped: EvalScribe's Louisiana frameworks are the two teacher rubrics — the LER and Compass. The Louisiana Leader Rubric (for administrators) and the Louisiana Counselor Rubric are separate instruments. Bulletin 130 also lets systems apply for a waiver to use an alternate approved observation rubric; if your system uses one, email [email protected].
How EvalScribe works with LEADS.
A five-step path from the back of the classroom to a finished, rubric-aligned observation write-up.
Observe the classroom
Announced or unannounced, full 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 indicators
EvalScribe identifies which LER indicators — or Compass components — each note supports.
Suggested ratings & comments
Get draft ratings and feedback in the rubric's own language — the LER five-point scale or the Compass four-level scale.
Review & finalize
Edit anything you want, finalize the write-up, and export a clean PDF for your records and LES entry.
EvalScribe runs natively on iPhone, iPad, and Mac — work where you are.
Capture notes the way you already work.
No retraining required. Whatever your observation style, EvalScribe accepts it.
Snap a photo
Photograph your handwritten notes mid-observation. 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 Louisiana-aware drafting pipeline as scans and dictation.
Why generic AI falls short for LEADS.
Pasting your observation notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for LER or Compass documentation, "sounds polished" isn't the bar. Defensible, rubric-aligned observations are.
| Capability | Generic AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) | EvalScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Framework awareness | ✕No concept of the Louisiana Educator Rubric or Compass, their domains, or their different scales. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Built around both Louisiana rubrics — the LER's 23 indicators and Compass's 5 components — with their actual language and scales. |
| Indicator mapping | ✕Hallucinates indicator and domain labels and invents rubric language that doesn't exist in either rubric. | ✓Maps evidence to the real LER indicators or Compass components using the actual rubrics loaded into the app. |
| The five-point scale | ✕Treats scoring as generic, missing that the LER defines 1, 3, and 5 and leaves 2 and 4 to professional judgment. | ✓Drafts on the LER's anchored five-point scale — and the Compass four-level scale — based on the captured evidence. |
| Holistic, not a checklist | ✕Tallies boxes and treats indicators as independent, which the LER explicitly is not. | ✓Drafts holistically on the preponderance of evidence across interconnected indicators, the way the rubric intends. |
| The Exemplary bar | ✕Conflates strong classroom teaching with Exemplary and hands out the top level freely. | ✓Reserves Exemplary for genuine student ownership of learning — the distinction the LER actually draws. |
| Summative & student growth | ✕No idea the observation is only the professional-practice component of a LEADS evaluation. | ✓Drafts observation ratings and comments. Student growth and the final Level of Effectiveness stay with your system's Bulletin 130 process. |
| 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 LER or Compass. |
| 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 Louisiana 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 Louisiana observation 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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For a single evaluator on their own device.
Billed annually per user
- Unlimited evaluations
- All supported frameworks, including the Louisiana Educator 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 systems deploying across every evaluator.
Best value for full deployments
- Everything in School-wide
- 20% volume discount
- Single access code for the entire system
- 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.
Louisiana evaluations & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support both Compass and the Louisiana Educator Rubric?
Yes — both are built in natively. The current Louisiana Educator Rubric (LER) under LEADS, with all four domains and twenty-three indicators on its five-point scale, and legacy Compass, with its five key components on the four-level scale. Each is drafted in its own rubric language.
Which rubric should my system be using?
The Louisiana Educator Rubric under LEADS became the statewide teacher observation rubric in 2025–26, after a 2023–24 pilot and a 2024–25 learning year. Compass is now the legacy system. Because EvalScribe supports both, you're covered whichever your system is using — and through the transition between them.
What's the difference between Compass and the LER?
Compass was built on Danielson's Framework for Teaching and scored five key components across three domains on a four-level scale — with no professionalism domain. The Louisiana Educator Rubric, adapted from the NIET Teaching and Learning Standards Rubric, covers twenty-three indicators across four domains — including Professionalism — on a five-point scale, scored holistically. The LER is broader and more granular.
How does the LER's five-point scale work?
The rubric defines performance at levels 1 (Unsatisfactory), 3 (Proficient), and 5 (Exemplary). Observers assign a 2 or a 4 using professional judgment when the evidence falls between the defined levels. It's scored holistically on the preponderance of evidence — it is explicitly not a checklist — and Exemplary turns on strong student ownership of learning.
Does EvalScribe calculate the overall Level of Effectiveness or student growth?
No — and we're deliberately clear about that. The classroom observation is the professional-practice component of a LEADS evaluation. A teacher's overall Level of Effectiveness (Ineffective, Effective: Emerging, Effective: Proficient, or Highly Effective) also reflects a student-growth measure, and the final determination is made through your system's process under Bulletin 130. EvalScribe drafts the observation ratings and comments.
Is EvalScribe connected to LES?
No. EvalScribe is a drafting tool and is not connected to the state's LES data system. You review and finalize your observation in EvalScribe, then transfer the finalized content into LES or your system of record. Keeping EvalScribe separate from state systems is part of how your data stays yours.
What about the Louisiana Leader Rubric and Counselor Rubric?
Those are separate instruments for administrators and counselors. EvalScribe's Louisiana frameworks are the two teacher rubrics — the LER and Compass. If you evaluate leaders or counselors and would like those instruments supported, let us know at [email protected].
My system uses an alternate approved rubric. Is that supported?
Bulletin 130 lets systems apply for a waiver to use an alternate approved observation rubric in place of the LER. EvalScribe is built around the LER and Compass; if your system uses an approved alternate, email [email protected] and tell us which one.
Does EvalScribe handle the LEADS observation requirements?
EvalScribe handles the write-up, not the observation schedule. Under LEADS, observation requirements are differentiated — newer and struggling teachers receive more observations, while consistently high-scoring experienced teachers can qualify for fewer. You conduct the observations your system requires; EvalScribe drafts the documentation from your notes.
Does EvalScribe replace evaluator judgment?
No. EvalScribe drafts evidence-mapped observations and suggested ratings. The evaluator reviews, edits, and finalizes every document — including the professional-judgment calls the LER's 2 and 4 levels require. The judgment is always yours.
Can the generated evaluations be edited?
Yes, fully. Every comment, every rating, and every piece of mapped evidence inside a draft 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 LER or Compass. They invent indicators that don't exist, treat the rubric as a checklist, hand out Exemplary freely, and miss that the LER anchors only 1, 3, and 5. EvalScribe is built around both Louisiana rubrics' actual structure and scales — and the evaluator workflow around them — from capture through final export.
Where can I read the official Louisiana sources?
The primary sources are maintained by the Louisiana Department of Education: the LEADS pages, which house the Louisiana Educator Rubric and evaluation handbooks. The regulatory basis is Bulletin 130 (LAC 28), and the statutory basis is Act 54 of 2010, codified at La. R.S. 17:3881 et seq.
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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