AI-powered teacher evaluations
for Maryland educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around the four Danielson domains at the heart of Maryland's locally developed evaluation models, drafting the professional-practice write-up in the framework's own language.
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All Danielson domains, built in
Professional practice share
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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.
Maryland-specific
All four Danielson domains, built in natively, for your district's model.
Privacy-first
Transient processing on Microsoft Azure. Never used for AI training.
Built for workflow
Designed around the realities of being a Maryland evaluator.
Maryland's evaluation models. EvalScribe is built around all four Danielson domains.
Maryland is a local-control state. Under COMAR 13A.07.09, each of the state's local education agencies develops its own teacher evaluation model within state parameters. Those parameters set the professional-practice domains — the four Danielson domains — plus a student-growth component. EvalScribe is built around those Danielson domains and their language.
Five components: four Danielson domains, plus student growth
A Maryland teacher evaluation includes at least five components: the four professional-practice domains from Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching, and student growth. 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 professional-practice 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 Responsibility
Beyond the lessonReflection on practice, accurate records, communication with families, professional growth, and contribution to the school.
Professional practice and student growth
Maryland's state model weights the two halves equally: professional practice (the four domains) and student growth each count for 50%. Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) are the predominant measure of student growth; teachers typically develop two to four SLOs, informed by assessment data and the Maryland College and Career Ready Standards where they apply.
Because each district develops its own model, the exact weighting, rating scale, and SLO process are set by your local education agency and its bargaining agreement.
The Blueprint career ladder
Under the Blueprint for Maryland's Future, districts are aligning their evaluation systems to the teacher career ladder (Levels 1 through 4). An evaluation system used with the career ladder must meet the observation requirements in state law — including pre- and post-observation conferences and an assessment of evaluator competency — and incorporate Peer Assistance and Review (PAR). The observation write-up sits at the center of all of it.
Maryland's overall rating levels.
Highly Effective
Effective
Ineffective
State regulation requires, at a minimum, an overall rating of Highly Effective, Effective, or Ineffective. Some districts add intermediate levels within their local model.
How EvalScribe handles Maryland evaluations
The four Danielson domains are built into the tool, each with the framework's own language 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 — ready for your district's model.
Scope of the score. EvalScribe drafts the professional-practice piece — the four Danielson domains, the half of the evaluation built on classroom observation. The student-growth component (SLOs) and the combination of both halves into the overall rating are handled in your district's process, not the app.
Built for local control. Because each Maryland district develops its own model within the state parameters, the exact rating scale, weighting, and SLO process vary. EvalScribe is built around the Danielson domains every model shares; confirm your district's adopted model and rating scale, and if it would help to see a specific local rubric supported, email [email protected].
How EvalScribe works with Maryland's models.
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 professional-practice 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 Maryland evaluations.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for Maryland evaluation 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 domains Maryland districts use, or the state's rating levels. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Built around the four Danielson domains, their component language, and Maryland's rating levels. |
| Component mapping | ✕Hallucinates domain and component labels and invents rubric language that doesn't match Danielson. | ✓Maps evidence to the real Danielson components using the actual framework loaded into the app. |
| Local control | ✕No idea Maryland districts each run their own model within state parameters. | ✓Built around the Danielson domains every Maryland model shares, ready for your district's scale. |
| Scope of the score | ✕Assumes the observation is the whole rating, ignoring the 50% student-growth half. | ✓Drafts the professional-practice half; leaves SLOs and the overall rating to your district's process. |
| Rating levels | ✕Defaults to generic good-to-bad framing that misses Maryland's levels. | ✓Drafts toward Maryland's ratings — Highly Effective, 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 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 Maryland 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.
Maryland evaluations & EvalScribe — common questions.
What evaluation model does Maryland use?
Maryland is a local-control state. Under COMAR 13A.07.09, each district develops its own evaluation model within state parameters, and those parameters set the professional-practice domains — the four Danielson domains — plus a student-growth component. EvalScribe is built around the four Danielson domains every Maryland model shares, so it fits your district's model.
How much of a Maryland evaluation is student growth?
In the state model, professional practice and student growth are weighted equally — each counts for 50%. Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) are the predominant student-growth measure. EvalScribe drafts the professional-practice half; the SLO half and the combination into the overall rating are handled in your district's process. Exact weighting is set by your local education agency.
What are the Maryland rating levels?
State regulation requires, at a minimum, an overall rating of Highly Effective, Effective, or Ineffective. Some districts add intermediate levels within their local model. EvalScribe drafts toward your district's rating scale using the framework's own criteria.
Does EvalScribe account for the Blueprint career ladder?
The Blueprint for Maryland's Future ties evaluation to a teacher career ladder and adds requirements like pre- and post-observation conferences and Peer Assistance and Review. EvalScribe's role is the observation write-up at the center of that work — turning your notes into standards-aligned documentation. The career-ladder placement and PAR structures are administered by your district.
Does EvalScribe calculate my overall rating?
No. EvalScribe drafts the professional-practice portion — the Danielson domain ratings and evidence-anchored feedback from your observations. The 50% student-growth component (SLOs) and the combination into the overall rating are handled in your district's evaluation process, not 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 the Danielson domains Maryland districts use. They invent components, ignore that each district runs its own model, hand out Highly Effective freely, and produce vague comments that miss the level distinctions the framework requires. EvalScribe is built around the Danielson domains' actual structure and Maryland's ratings — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds them — from capture through final export.
Where can I read the official Maryland evaluation sources?
The evaluation requirements live in COMAR 13A.07.09, and the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) publishes teacher and principal evaluation guidance at marylandpublicschools.org. The career ladder is set out in the Education Article, Title 6, Subtitle 10, under the Blueprint for Maryland's Future.
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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