AI-powered teacher evaluations
for Marzano schools.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe supports administrators who use the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model. You bring your district's rubric and your judgment. EvalScribe helps you write it up.
Saved per evaluation
Evidence organized for you
For your review
Evaluator-controlled ratings
Three evaluations free — no credit card · Individual plans from $100/year · School & district licensing available
Educational leaders on EvalScribe
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 from 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.
Made for Marzano evaluators
Works with districts that use the Marzano Focused Model.
Privacy-first
Transient processing on Microsoft Azure. Never used for AI training.
Built for workflow
Built for the realities of evaluating with the Marzano model.
The Marzano Focused Model. EvalScribe supports evaluators who use it.
The Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model is published by the Marzano Evaluation Center and used by districts and states across the country. EvalScribe supports administrators who already use it. What the model requires, and what each rating means, comes from your district's Marzano documentation.
Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model
EvalScribe helps you organize your observation notes by the domains your district evaluates against and draft evidence-anchored feedback you can align to your district's Marzano documentation.
The domain structure and rating scale belong to the model, and your district's Marzano documentation is the authority on what each rating means. EvalScribe organizes your evidence by the domains your district evaluates against and offers suggested draft ratings for your review. You decide every rating.
How districts adopt the model
The Marzano Focused Model is a framework that districts and states adopt and then implement locally. Weighting across the domains, observation types (formal, targeted, walkthrough), the number of observations, and how domain scores roll into a summative rating are all local decisions.
EvalScribe helps with the observation-based write-up. The domain weighting and the final summative rating are set by your district, outside the app.
How EvalScribe works with the Marzano Focused Model
EvalScribe supports administrators who use the Marzano Focused Model. It organizes the evidence from your observation notes by the domain it relates to, offers suggested draft ratings for your review, and helps you write evidence-anchored feedback you can align to your district's documentation, so the write-up is traceable back to what you observed and to the student evidence. You bring your district's rubric and your judgment. EvalScribe helps you write it up.
Scope of the score. EvalScribe helps with 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. Questions about how EvalScribe fits your district's setup? Email [email protected].
How EvalScribe works with the Marzano model.
A five-step path from the back of the classroom to a finished 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.
Organize evidence by domain
EvalScribe helps you sort each note by the domain it relates to.
Suggested ratings & comments
Get suggested ratings for your review and feedback language you can align to your district's documentation.
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 same drafting process 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 | ✕Isn't designed around evaluation write-ups or the Marzano model your district uses. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Works with administrators who use the Marzano Focused Model. You apply your district's rubric, and EvalScribe helps you write it up. |
| Evidence organization | ✕Invents labels and rubric language that may not match the Marzano model your district uses. | ✓Organizes your evidence by the domains your district evaluates against so it is ready to hold up against your district's rubric. |
| Standards-based framing | ✕Produces generic feedback disconnected from standards and learning targets. | ✓Keeps the write-up anchored to your observation evidence and your district's standards. |
| 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 you can align to your district's Marzano documentation. |
| 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 domain it relates to. |
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, from capture and organizing evidence to suggested ratings and final export.
The draft review screen — every comment, rating, and piece of organized 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
- Works with every state and national framework, 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 supports administrators who use the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model. It helps you organize observation evidence by domain, suggests draft ratings for your review, and helps you write feedback you can align to your district's Marzano documentation. The ratings are yours.
Who decides what each Marzano rating means?
Your district's Marzano documentation and training do. EvalScribe does not define the levels. It offers suggested draft ratings for your review, and you decide every rating.
Does EvalScribe produce the final summative rating?
No. EvalScribe helps with the observation-based write-up and suggested draft ratings. How the 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 belongs to its creators. EvalScribe is an independent tool that supports administrators who already use the model. It is not a substitute for your district's official Marzano materials or scoring platform.
Does EvalScribe replace evaluator judgment?
No. EvalScribe drafts evidence-organized 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 organized 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?
General-purpose AI tools aren't designed around how teacher evaluations are written. They can invent labels, hand out top ratings freely, and produce vague comments. EvalScribe is built for evaluation write-ups and the evaluator workflow around them, 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 and domain weightings publicly.
Which other frameworks does EvalScribe work with?
EvalScribe supports evaluators in all 50 states and Washington D.C., including districts that use widely adopted models such as Danielson, Marzano, Stronge, CEL 5D+, NIET, and Kim Marshall. See evalscribe.com/frameworks.
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Spend less time on paperwork.
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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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