AI-powered teacher evaluations
for Nebraska educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around Nebraska's NTPPS-aligned teacher rubric natively — all five domains, all thirty indicators, and the Ineffective to Highly Effective scale, in the standards' own language.
Saved per evaluation
All 5 NTPPS domains, built in
To capture notes
Evaluator-controlled ratings
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.
Nebraska-specific
All 5 NTPPS domains and 30 indicators, built in natively.
Privacy-first
Transient processing on Microsoft Azure. Never used for AI training.
Built for workflow
Designed around the realities of being a Nebraska evaluator.
Nebraska districts evaluate on the NTPPS. EvalScribe is built around all five domains.
The Nebraska Teacher and Principal Performance Standards (NTPPS) — approved by the State Board of Education in 2020 and supported through NDE's Supporting Educator Effectiveness through Development (S.E.E.D.) system — are the foundation for teacher evaluation in Nebraska. Nebraska is a local-control state: the NTPPS is a model, not a mandate, and districts adopt or adapt it. EvalScribe is built around the NTPPS-aligned teacher rubric — five domains, thirty indicators, on a four-level scale that runs as a growth continuum.
NTPPS-Aligned Teacher Evaluation Instrument
Five domains span planning, the learning environment, instructional strategies, assessment, and professionalism. Beneath them sit thirty indicators, each described across four levels. The scale reads as a growth continuum: Developing is a genuine building tier — recognizing a practice and seeking collaboration and resources — while Highly Effective is a leadership tier, where the teacher leads efforts to develop, model, or promote the practice across the educational community. Effective is the expected professional standard.
Five domains. Thirty indicators.
Planning & Preparation
6 indicators- a Standards Alignment · b Lessons · c Instructional Materials
- d Integration of Experiences · e Learning Communities
- f Culturally Responsive Data Use
Learning Environment
5 indicators- a Student Relationships · b Student Experiences
- c Collaborative Learning Environment
- d Routines, Procedures & Conduct · e Student Ownership
Instructional Strategies
6 indicators- a Evidence-Based Strategies · b Resources
- c Cultural Responsiveness · d Differentiation
- e Meaningful Learning · f Cultural Competence
Assessment
6 indicators- a Balanced Assessment · b Bias & Marginalization
- c Data Use · d Data Analysis
- e Student Feedback · f Communicating Student Progress
Professionalism
7 indicators- a Policies, Procedures & Regulations
- b Relationships
- c Professional Growth
- d Expectations
- e Mission, Vision & Continuous Improvement
- f Shared Responsibility
- g Rights and Confidentiality
The four-level growth continuum.
Ineffective
Developing
Building the practiceEffective
Expected professional levelHighly Effective
Leads & models for othersHow EvalScribe handles the NTPPS rubric
All five domains and all thirty indicators are built into the tool, each with the NTPPS rubric's own language across the four levels, look-fors, and the distinctions that separate Developing from Effective and Effective from Highly Effective. EvalScribe maps your evidence to the relevant indicators and drafts best-fit ratings and feedback in the rubric's voice — drafting to the real Highly Effective bar (leading, modeling, or promoting the practice across the educational community) rather than handing out the top level for strong classroom teaching alone.
Honest scope on Nebraska's model: the NTPPS is a state model, not a statewide mandate — Nebraska is a local-control state, and districts adopt or adapt their own evaluation instruments. EvalScribe is built around the NTPPS-aligned teacher rubric; if your district uses a locally modified instrument or the TNTP Core rubric, let us know. EvalScribe drafts indicator-level ratings and comments; how ratings roll up and any employment decisions are determined by your district's process under Nebraska law. The classroom observation itself is yours — Nebraska law (Neb. Rev. Stat. § 79-828) requires probationary staff be observed for a full instructional period — and the Individual Professional Development Plan and any Plan for Improvement stay with the teacher and district.
How EvalScribe works with the NTPPS.
A five-step path from the back of the classroom to a finished, standards-aligned evaluation.
Observe the classroom
Walkthrough or full-period 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 indicators
EvalScribe identifies which of the 30 NTPPS indicators each note supports, across all five domains.
Suggested ratings & comments
Get draft ratings and feedback language in the NTPPS rubric's own voice, across the four-level continuum.
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 NTPPS-aware drafting pipeline as scans and dictation.
Why generic AI falls short for the NTPPS.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for NTPPS 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 NTPPS, its 30 indicators, or its four-level growth continuum. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Built around the NTPPS rubric's actual structure, indicator language, and four-level scale. |
| Indicator mapping | ✕Hallucinates domain and indicator labels and invents rubric language that doesn't exist in the NTPPS. | ✓Maps evidence to the real 30 NTPPS indicators using the actual rubric loaded into the app. |
| Growth-continuum scoring | ✕Treats the scale as generic good-to-bad, missing that Developing is a genuine building tier. | ✓Suggests best-fit ratings across the four-level continuum based on the preponderance of captured evidence. |
| The Highly Effective bar | ✕Conflates strong classroom teaching with Highly Effective and hands out the top level freely. | ✓Drafts to the real NTPPS bar — Highly Effective turns on leading, modeling, or promoting the practice across the educational community. |
| Summative & decisions | ✕No idea the NTPPS is a district-adopted model, not a statewide scoring engine. | ✓Drafts indicator-level ratings and comments. How ratings roll up and any employment decisions stay with your district's process. |
| 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 NTPPS rubric. |
| 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 indicator it supports. |
How much Nebraska 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 an NTPPS 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 NTPPS
- 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 NTPPS & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support the full NTPPS teacher rubric?
Yes — all five domains and all thirty indicators are built in natively, each with the NTPPS rubric's own language across the four levels, the look-fors, and the distinctions that separate adjacent ratings. EvalScribe maps your evidence to the right indicators and drafts ratings and comments in the rubric's voice.
Is the NTPPS mandated in Nebraska?
No. Nebraska is a local-control state. The NTPPS — approved by the State Board of Education in 2020 and supported through NDE's S.E.E.D. system — is a state model, not a statewide mandate, and districts adopt or adapt their own evaluation instruments. EvalScribe is built around the NTPPS-aligned teacher rubric. If your district uses a locally modified instrument or the TNTP Core rubric, email [email protected].
What does Highly Effective mean on the NTPPS?
Leadership. On the NTPPS, Highly Effective means the teacher leads efforts to develop, test, model, or promote the practice across the educational community — not simply that classroom practice is strong. Excellent, consistent classroom teaching is Effective, the expected professional level; Highly Effective adds leadership beyond the individual classroom. EvalScribe drafts to that real bar rather than handing out the top level freely.
What's the difference between Developing and Effective?
Developing is a genuine building tier — the teacher recognizes the importance of a practice and engages in purposeful collaboration and seeks resources to build the skill. Effective means the teacher consistently demonstrates the practice at the expected professional level. Developing isn't "almost failing"; it's a growth stage on the way to Effective.
Does EvalScribe calculate a summative rating or make employment decisions?
No — and we're deliberately clear about that. EvalScribe drafts indicator-level ratings and comments. Because the NTPPS is a district-adopted model, how those ratings roll up into any summative determination — and any resulting employment decisions — are handled by your district's process under Nebraska law, not by the app.
Does EvalScribe handle the probationary observation requirement?
EvalScribe handles the write-up, not the observation. Nebraska law (Neb. Rev. Stat. § 79-828) requires that probationary certificated staff be observed and evaluated at least once each semester, based on an actual classroom observation for a full instructional period. You do the observation; EvalScribe drafts the documentation from your notes.
What about the IPDP, Plan for Improvement, or Plan of Assistance?
Those are separate district processes that stay with the teacher and district. EvalScribe handles the observation-based evaluation — the indicator-level ratings and the feedback language — not the professional development plan or any improvement or assistance plan.
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.
What about the NTPPS Principal instrument or the TNTP Core rubric?
EvalScribe's Nebraska framework is built around the NTPPS-aligned teacher rubric. The NTPPS Principal Evaluation Instrument and the TNTP Core Teaching Rubric that Nebraska also offers are separate instruments. If you evaluate on one of those, let us know at [email protected].
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 NTPPS. They invent indicators that don't exist, misread the growth continuum, hand out Highly Effective freely, and produce vague comments that miss the level distinctions the rubric requires. EvalScribe is built around the NTPPS's actual structure and four-level scale — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds it — from capture through final export.
Where can I read the official NTPPS sources?
The primary sources are maintained by the Nebraska Department of Education: the NTPPS and S.E.E.D. pages under Educator Effectiveness. The statutory basis for teacher evaluation is Neb. Rev. Stat. § 79-828, and NDE Rule 10 (92 NAC 10) requires each district to maintain a written evaluation policy.
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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