AI-powered teacher evaluations
for Missouri educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around Missouri's MEES — the nine Missouri Teacher Standards, thirty-six quality indicators, and the four-level career continuum DESE uses, with flexibility for the locally-developed plan your district actually uses.
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Built in natively
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.
Missouri MEES aligned
Nine Missouri Teacher Standards built in natively, with all 36 quality indicators and the four-level career continuum.
Privacy-first
Transient processing on Microsoft Azure. Never used for AI training.
Built for workflow
Designed around the realities of being a Missouri evaluator using MEES or a locally-developed plan grounded in the Missouri Teacher Standards. NEE support coming in a future update.
Missouri's MEES, handled natively.
The Missouri Educator Evaluation System (MEES) is DESE's model evaluation system for K-12 teacher evaluation, built on the nine Missouri Teacher Standards. Missouri districts can adopt MEES, use it as a template for a locally-developed plan, or adopt an alternative model like the Network for Educator Effectiveness (NEE) — all of which must align to DESE's Essential Principles of Effective Evaluation. EvalScribe is built around the Missouri Teacher Standards exactly — nine standards, thirty-six quality indicators, four-level career continuum — and adapts to the district-specific variations most Missouri evaluation plans use.
MEES — Missouri Educator Evaluation System
MEES is grounded in the nine Missouri Teacher Standards, codified in DESE guidance and aligned with educator preparation across the state. The standards are organized as observable categories of teaching practice covering thirty-six quality indicators (QIs) total. Each indicator is rated on a four-level career continuum — Emerging, Developing, Proficient, Distinguished — that recognizes teaching as a developmental profession rather than a pass/fail judgment.
Missouri MEES — quick facts
- Framework name
- Missouri Educator Evaluation System (MEES), aligned to the Missouri Teacher Standards
- Governing body
- Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE)
- Statutory basis
- Section 168.128 RSMo; DESE Essential Principles of Effective Evaluation
- Adoption
- DESE model; districts may adopt MEES, use it as a template, or develop an aligned plan (including NEE)
- Structure
- 9 Missouri Teacher Standards, 36 quality indicators (QIs)
- Rating scale
- 4-level career continuum — Emerging, Developing, Proficient, Distinguished
- Most recent revision
- MEES revised 2023
- Common district alternatives
- Network for Educator Effectiveness (NEE), Marzano, Stronge, locally-developed plans
Nine Missouri Teacher Standards. Thirty-six quality indicators.
Content Knowledge & Instruction
5 QIsStudent Learning, Growth & Development
6 QIsCurriculum Implementation
3 QIsCritical Thinking
3 QIsPositive Classroom Environment
3 QIsEffective Communication
4 QIsStudent Assessment & Data Analysis
6 QIsProfessionalism
3 QIsProfessional Collaboration
3 QIsThe four-level career continuum.
Emerging
Developing
Proficient
Distinguished
How EvalScribe handles Missouri MEES
All nine Missouri Teacher Standards and all thirty-six quality indicators are built into the tool, with the four-level career continuum applied through rubric-aware logic that distinguishes between adjacent levels the way Missouri's framework actually intends — particularly the Proficient-to-Distinguished distinction, where the teacher transitions from consistently effective practitioner to educational leader who mentors colleagues and elevates students as authentic practitioners of the discipline. For districts using a locally-developed plan grounded in the Missouri Teacher Standards, the underlying engine accommodates that variation while honoring the standards-aligned foundation Missouri DESE requires. Dedicated NEE support is on our roadmap for a future update — NEE-using districts can reach out to [email protected] to be notified when it ships.
How EvalScribe works with Missouri MEES.
A five-step path from the back of the classroom to a finished, MEES-aligned evaluation that fits your district's specific plan.
Observe the classroom
Walkthrough or formal observation — 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 MEES
EvalScribe identifies which of the 36 quality indicators each note supports across all nine Missouri Teacher Standards.
Suggested ratings & comments
Get draft career-continuum ratings (Emerging through Distinguished) and professional feedback language in the MEES rubric's voice.
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 MEES-aware drafting pipeline as scans and dictation.
Why generic AI falls short for Missouri MEES.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for MEES documentation, "sounds polished" isn't the bar. Defensible, standards-aligned evaluations are.
| Capability | Generic AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) | EvalScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Framework awareness | ✕No built-in understanding of Missouri MEES, the Missouri Teacher Standards, or how Missouri districts adapt them. Treats every prompt as a generic teaching evaluation. | ✓Built around MEES specifically — nine Missouri Teacher Standards, thirty-six quality indicators, four-level career continuum, with flexibility for district-developed plans. |
| Quality indicator mapping | ✕Hallucinates standard numbers (S1, S4, etc.) and invents rubric language that doesn't match the actual Missouri Teacher Standards rubric. | ✓Maps evidence to the actual 36 quality indicators across all nine standards using the loaded MEES rubric. |
| Rubric scoring | ✕Inconsistent ratings between teachers — and between sessions on the same teacher. | ✓Suggests MEES-appropriate Emerging / Developing / Proficient / Distinguished ratings based on captured evidence. |
| Level distinctions | ✕Defaults to generic "good/great" framing that misses the Proficient-to-Distinguished distinction MEES actually requires. | ✓Rubric-aware scoring that meaningfully distinguishes between adjacent career-continuum levels in MEES's own terms. |
| 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 voice of the Missouri Teacher Standards rubric. |
| Evaluator workflow | ✕No concept of walkthroughs, formal observations, or pre/post conferences. | ✓Built around the actual evaluator workflow, from capture to final exported PDF. |
| 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 quality indicator it supports. |
How much Missouri 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 MEES 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 Missouri MEES
- 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.
Missouri MEES & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support Missouri MEES?
Yes — MEES is built in natively. All nine Missouri Teacher Standards, all 36 quality indicators, and the four-level career continuum (Emerging, Developing, Proficient, Distinguished) are loaded into the tool. EvalScribe maps observation evidence to the relevant quality indicators and suggests rubric-aligned ratings and comments.
Where can I read the official Missouri Teacher Standards and MEES framework?
The official Missouri Teacher Standards and MEES guidance are maintained by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). Primary sources:
DESE Teacher Evaluation home
Missouri Teacher Standards
DESE Model Evaluation System
Statutory basis: Section 168.128 RSMo.
What's the difference between MEES and the Missouri Teacher Standards?
The Missouri Teacher Standards are the nine foundational standards DESE has identified as the expectations of Missouri teachers — the content of what's being evaluated. MEES (Missouri Educator Evaluation System) is the evaluation system built around those standards — the process, scoring scale, and protocols used to evaluate teachers against them. EvalScribe is built on the Missouri Teacher Standards content with MEES scoring applied through the four-level career continuum.
My district uses a locally-developed plan or NEE instead of MEES. Will EvalScribe work for us?
Missouri districts can adopt MEES as the state model, use it as a template for a locally-developed plan, or adopt an alternative like the Network for Educator Effectiveness (NEE) from the University of Missouri. All Missouri evaluation plans must align to DESE's Essential Principles of Effective Evaluation, and most are grounded in the Missouri Teacher Standards.
EvalScribe currently ships native support for MEES and for locally-developed plans grounded in the Missouri Teacher Standards — the underlying engine accommodates district-specific variations in language, weighting, and structure. Dedicated NEE support is on our roadmap for a future update. If your district uses NEE, reach out to [email protected] and we'll let you know when it ships.
What is the four-level career continuum and why does Missouri use it?
Missouri's four-level scale — Emerging, Developing, Proficient, Distinguished — frames teaching as a developmental career continuum rather than a pass/fail judgment. Emerging-level competencies are what teacher candidates are expected to meet by program completion. Developing reflects growth through new classroom experiences. Proficient is the career professional standard. Distinguished represents educators who lead and mentor in the school, district, and profession. EvalScribe's rubric-aware logic recognizes this developmental progression and scores accordingly.
Does EvalScribe replace evaluator judgment?
No. EvalScribe drafts evidence-mapped evaluations and suggested career-continuum ratings. The evaluator reviews, edits, and finalizes every document. The professional judgment is always yours — EvalScribe just removes the typing.
Can the generated MEES 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.
Does EvalScribe support walkthroughs as well as formal observations?
Yes. Brief walkthroughs, formative observations, and full summative observations all flow through the same capture-and-draft pipeline, so the documentation produced is consistent across observation types within your district's evaluation cycle.
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 Missouri Teacher Standards or how Missouri districts adapt them through MEES, NEE, or locally-developed plans. They invent standard numbers that don't exist, score inconsistently, and produce vague comments that miss the Proficient-to-Distinguished distinction Missouri's rubric actually requires. EvalScribe is built around the actual Missouri Teacher Standards and the MEES rubric — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds it — from capture through final export.
Is EvalScribe available for iOS and macOS?
Yes. Individual evaluators can download EvalScribe from the Apple App Store on both iOS and macOS, with a free trial that includes three evaluations.
Can schools or districts purchase licenses for multiple evaluators?
Yes. School-wide licensing starts at three or more evaluators ($90/user/year), and district-wide licensing is $80/admin/year. When you order, EvalScribe issues a unique access code that you distribute to your evaluators — no separate provisioning required. Email [email protected] to get started.
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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Page maintained by Anthony D. Neely, Ph.D. — practicing K–12 educator with nearly 20 years in the classroom, 2025–2026 Walker County Distinguished Teacher of the Year, and co-founder of EvalScribe. Framework details verified against current Missouri DESE source documents.
Page last reviewed: June 30, 2026
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