AI-powered teacher evaluations
for Marzano schools.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model natively — its four domains and the Not Using to Innovating scale, in the model's own language.
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The Marzano Focused Model
Not Using to Innovating
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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.
Marzano-specific
The Marzano Focused Model's four domains and 5-level scale, built in natively.
Privacy-first
Transient processing on Microsoft Azure. Never used for AI training.
Built for workflow
Designed around the realities of evaluating with the Marzano model.
The Marzano Focused Model. EvalScribe is built around all four domains.
Developed by Robert Marzano and maintained by the Marzano Evaluation Center, the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model is a standards-based framework used by districts and states across the country. It organizes teaching into four domains and twenty-three elements, scored on a five-level scale from Not Using to Innovating. EvalScribe is built around the model's own structure and language.
Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model
The Focused Model streamlines Marzano's research base into twenty-three elements across four domains, always anchored to standards and to the effect instruction has on student evidence. EvalScribe maps your observation notes to the element they support and drafts a rating and evidence-anchored feedback in the model's own language.
Four domains. Twenty-three elements.
Standards-Based Planning
3 elementsPlanning rigorous, standards-aligned units and lessons — aligning resources to the standards, using performance scales, and planning to close the achievement gap with data.
Standards-Based Instruction
10 elementsThe instructional core — from identifying critical content and helping students process, practice, and deepen knowledge to engaging them in cognitively complex tasks.
Conditions for Learning
7 elementsThe environment that makes rigor possible — formative feedback, engagement strategies, rules and procedures, effective relationships, and high expectations for every student.
Professional Responsibilities
3 elementsPractice beyond the lesson — adhering to policies and procedures, maintaining expertise in content and pedagogy, and promoting teacher leadership and collaboration.
The five Marzano levels.
Not Using
Beginning
Developing
Applying
The target levelInnovating
The Marzano scale is effect-based. At Applying — the target level — the strategy is used correctly and the desired effect shows in the majority of student evidence. Innovating adapts so that more than ninety percent of students show the effect. EvalScribe drafts to each level's own criteria.
How districts adopt the model
The Marzano Focused Model is a proprietary framework that districts and states adopt and then implement locally. Weighting across the four domains, observation types (formal, targeted, walkthrough), the number of observations, and how domain scores roll into a summative rating are all local decisions.
EvalScribe drafts the observation-based write-up mapped to the model's elements. The domain weighting and the final summative rating are set by your district, outside the app.
How EvalScribe handles the Marzano Focused Model
The model's four domains and its five-level scale are built into the tool, with the effect-based distinctions that separate Not Using from Applying from Innovating. EvalScribe maps the evidence from your observation notes to the element it supports and drafts best-fit ratings and evidence-anchored feedback in the model's own language — so the write-up is defensible, traceable back to what you observed and to the student evidence, and ready to inform the evaluation.
Scope of the score. EvalScribe drafts the observation-based write-up. Domain weighting and the overall summative rating are determined by your district under its Marzano implementation, not the app.
An independent tool. EvalScribe is not affiliated with the Marzano Evaluation Center or Instructional Empowerment; it supports administrators who already use the model. If your district scores a specific subset of elements or uses local guidance you'd like reflected, email [email protected].
How EvalScribe works with the Marzano 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 elements
EvalScribe identifies which Marzano element each note supports, across all four 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 the Marzano model.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for Marzano documentation, "sounds polished" isn't the bar. Defensible, evidence-based evaluations are.
| Capability | Generic AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) | EvalScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Framework awareness | ✕No concept of the Marzano Focused Model, its four domains, or its five-level scale. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Built around the Marzano Focused Model's actual domains, element language, and Not Using to Innovating scale. |
| Element mapping | ✕Invents domain and element labels and rubric language that don't match the Marzano model. | ✓Maps evidence to the real Marzano elements using the actual model loaded into the app. |
| Effect-based scoring | ✕Ignores that Marzano is scored on the effect strategies have on student evidence, not just whether they appear. | ✓Drafts to the model's desired-effect logic — Applying means the effect shows in the majority of students. |
| The Applying target | ✕Treats the scale as generic good-to-bad, missing that Applying — not Innovating — is the target level. | ✓Drafts to the real Marzano bar — Applying is the expected level; Innovating requires adaptation for nearly all students. |
| Standards-based framing | ✕Produces generic feedback disconnected from standards and learning targets. | ✓Keeps the write-up anchored to the standards-based framing the model is built on. |
| 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 Marzano Focused 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 Marzano 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 Marzano 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 Marzano Focused Model
- 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.
The Marzano model & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support the Marzano Focused Model?
Yes. EvalScribe is built around the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model — all four domains (Standards-Based Planning, Standards-Based Instruction, Conditions for Learning, and Professional Responsibilities) and its five-level scale. It maps your observation evidence to the element it supports and drafts a rating and feedback in the model's own language.
What are the Marzano rating levels?
The scale has five levels: Not Using, Beginning, Developing, Applying, and Innovating. It is effect-based. Applying is the target level — the strategy is used correctly and the desired effect shows in the majority of student evidence. Innovating means the teacher adapts so that more than ninety percent of students show the effect.
What are the four Marzano domains?
Standards-Based Planning (3 elements), Standards-Based Instruction (10 elements), Conditions for Learning (7 elements), and Professional Responsibilities (3 elements) — twenty-three elements in all. EvalScribe is built around all four domains and drafts to their elements.
Does EvalScribe produce the final summative rating?
No. EvalScribe drafts the observation-based write-up and best-fit element ratings. How the four domains are weighted and how domain scores roll into a summative rating are set by your district's Marzano implementation, and are handled outside the app.
Is EvalScribe affiliated with the Marzano Evaluation Center?
No. The Marzano Focused Model is a proprietary framework owned by its creators. EvalScribe is an independent drafting tool that supports administrators who already use the model; it references the model's structure for compatibility, and does not replace your district's official scoring platform.
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 Marzano Focused Model. They invent elements, ignore the effect-based scoring the model is built on, hand out Innovating freely, and produce vague comments that miss the level distinctions the model requires. EvalScribe is built around the Marzano model's actual domains and five-level scale — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds it — from capture through final export.
Where can I read the official Marzano model sources?
The Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model is published by the Marzano Evaluation Center. Many state departments of education and districts that have adopted the model also post their implementation guides, domain weightings, and element maps publicly.
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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EvalScribe was built to help administrators spend less time documenting Marzano evaluations and more time doing what matters: leading instruction, coaching teachers, and walking buildings.
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