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for Maine educators.
Cut PEPG documentation from hours to minutes. Maine districts build their own evaluation systems under Rule Chapter 180 — so EvalScribe drafts professional-practice write-ups aligned to the model your district adopted and Maine's four statewide effectiveness rating categories.
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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.
Maine-specific
Fits your district's PEPG model and Maine's four statewide rating categories.
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Built for workflow
Designed around the realities of being a Maine evaluator.
Maine builds evaluation locally. EvalScribe fits your district's model.
Maine evaluates teachers through Performance Evaluation and Professional Growth (PEPG) systems under Rule Chapter 180 (implementing Chapter 508 of Title 20-A). There is no single statewide rubric — each school administrative unit (SAU) develops its own PEPG system and chooses its own professional practice model. EvalScribe is built around the models Maine districts actually use, so it drafts against whichever one your district adopted.
How a Maine PEPG system comes together.
Each SAU builds its PEPG system through a steering committee — a majority of whom are teachers chosen by the local collective bargaining unit. The system is submitted to the Maine DOE for approval and adopted by the school board. Within it, the district selects a professional practice model, defines how measures combine into a summative rating, and sets the frequency of full evaluations (at least once every three years). The state provides a State Model T-PEPG that districts may adopt whole, adapt in part, or use as a guide.
The models Maine districts choose
A Maine PEPG system evaluates professional practice with a model aligned to Maine's professional practice standards (built on InTASC). Districts choose from established models — or submit another for Maine DOE approval with evidence of InTASC alignment. EvalScribe ships the widely used ones, so it drafts in the language of the model your district adopted.
Commonly adopted in Maine.
The Framework for Teaching (Danielson)
Built inFour domains from planning and preparation through professional responsibilities — one of the most widely adopted models in Maine.
Marzano
Built inThe Marzano teacher evaluation model, an approved professional practice model for Maine PEPG systems.
Kim Marshall Teacher Evaluation Rubrics
Built inApproved for use as the professional practice element in Maine, and the basis for locally derived rubrics such as the MSAD 49 model.
State Model T-PEPG & others
Ask usMaine's State Model (MSFE/TEPG, built on the NBPTS core propositions) and any other InTASC-aligned model your SAU has approved. Not sure yours is covered? Just ask.
Maine's four summative effectiveness rating categories.
Highly Effective
Effective
Partially Effective
Ineffective
These four categories are set statewide by Rule Chapter 180; every Maine PEPG system places educators into one of them.
How EvalScribe handles Maine PEPG
Tell EvalScribe which professional practice model your district uses, and it drafts the professional-practice write-up in that model's language — mapping the evidence from your notes to the relevant standard and drafting ratings and feedback you review and finalize. Because it ships the models Maine districts commonly adopt, EvalScribe fits your PEPG system rather than forcing a generic rubric onto it.
Student growth is now a local choice. As of September 1, 2021, Maine law (PL 2019, Chapter 27) removed the mandate that student learning and growth be used in summative effectiveness ratings. Districts may still include growth measures if they choose, but they are no longer required. Where a district includes them, those measures are handled within its PEPG system, not by EvalScribe.
Scope of the score. EvalScribe drafts the professional-practice piece. The summative effectiveness rating — how your district combines measures to place an educator into one of the four categories — is determined by your SAU's approved PEPG system, not the app. Confirm your district's adopted professional practice model and rating method; if it would help to see a specific model supported, email [email protected].
How EvalScribe works with your PEPG model.
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 your model
EvalScribe identifies which standard of your district's professional practice model 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 Maine PEPG.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for PEPG documentation, "sounds polished" isn't the bar. Defensible, model-aligned evaluations are.
| Capability | Generic AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) | EvalScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Framework awareness | ✕No concept of Maine PEPG or that districts each choose their own professional practice model. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Built around the models Maine districts actually adopt — Danielson, Marzano, Marshall, and more. |
| Model matching | ✕Invents standards and rubric language that don't match the model your district selected. | ✓Drafts in the language of your district's adopted model, using the actual rubric loaded into the app. |
| Local-control awareness | ✕Assumes a single statewide rubric that Maine doesn't have. | ✓Fits your SAU's locally developed PEPG system and Maine's four statewide rating categories. |
| Student growth status | ✕May assume growth measures are required, missing that Maine removed that mandate in 2021. | ✓Drafts the professional-practice piece; leaves any locally chosen growth measures to your PEPG system. |
| Rating categories | ✕Defaults to generic good-to-bad framing that doesn't match Maine's categories. | ✓Drafts toward Maine's four categories — Highly Effective, Effective, Partially Effective, Ineffective. |
| 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 your district's model. |
| 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 Maine 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 PEPG 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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For a school with multiple evaluators.
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- Everything in Individual
- 10% volume discount
- Unique access code issued to your school
- Easy distribution to your evaluators
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For districts deploying across every evaluator.
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- 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.
Maine PEPG & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe work with Maine's PEPG systems?
Yes. Maine has no single statewide rubric — each district develops its own PEPG system under Rule Chapter 180 and chooses a professional practice model. EvalScribe ships the models Maine districts commonly adopt (Danielson, Marzano, Kim Marshall, and more), so it drafts the professional-practice write-up in the language of the model your district uses. Tell it which model you're on, and it maps your evidence and drafts ratings and feedback accordingly.
Which professional practice model does my district use?
That's a local decision made by your SAU's steering committee and approved by the Maine DOE and your school board. Common choices include the Framework for Teaching (Danielson), Marzano, the Kim Marshall rubrics, and Maine's State Model T-PEPG (MSFE/TEPG). If you're not sure yours is supported, email [email protected] and we'll confirm.
Is student growth required in Maine teacher evaluations?
No — not anymore. Maine law (PL 2019, Chapter 27) removed the mandate that student learning and growth be used in summative effectiveness ratings, effective September 1, 2021. Districts may still include growth measures if they find them valuable, but they are no longer required to. Where a district does include them, they're handled within its PEPG system, not by EvalScribe.
What are Maine's summative effectiveness rating categories?
Rule Chapter 180 sets four statewide categories: Highly Effective, Effective, Partially Effective, and Ineffective. Every district's PEPG system must place educators into one of these four. How measures combine to reach that placement is determined locally by each district's approved system.
Does EvalScribe calculate my summative effectiveness rating?
No. EvalScribe drafts the professional-practice piece — the evidence, ratings, and feedback against your district's model. How your district combines measures to place an educator into one of the four categories is set by its approved PEPG system and happens there, not in the app.
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 Maine PEPG or that every district uses a different professional practice model. They invent standards, assume a statewide rubric that doesn't exist, and produce vague comments. EvalScribe is built around the models Maine districts actually adopt — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds them — from capture through final export.
Where can I read the official Maine PEPG sources?
The Maine DOE maintains the Educator Effectiveness page, including the State Model T-PEPG. The governing rule is Rule Chapter 180, which implements Chapter 508 of Title 20-A of the Maine Revised Statutes.
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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