AI-powered teacher evaluations
for Nevada educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around the Nevada Educator Performance Framework (NEPF) natively — the Instructional Practice and Professional Responsibilities standards and the Highly Effective to Ineffective scale, in the NEPF's own language.
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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.
Nevada-specific
All ten NEPF practice standards and the four rating levels, 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 Nevada evaluator.
The NEPF. EvalScribe is built around all ten practice standards.
The Nevada Educator Performance Framework (NEPF) is the statewide system for evaluating every licensed teacher, set out in NRS and NAC Chapter 391 and administered by the Nevada Department of Education. It has three domains — Instructional Practice, Professional Responsibilities, and Student Performance. EvalScribe is built around the two practice domains and their standards.
Three domains, ten practice standards
A Nevada teacher's summative rating combines Instructional Practice (65%), Professional Responsibilities (20%), and Student Performance (15%). The two practice domains hold ten standards, each with three indicators, scored from observation and evidence. EvalScribe maps your observation evidence to the NEPF standard it supports and drafts a rating and evidence-anchored feedback in the framework's own language.
Instructional Practice — five standards (65%).
Prior Learning
Standard 1New learning is connected to prior learning and experience.
Cognitive Demand
Standard 2Learning tasks have high cognitive demand for diverse learners.
Meaning-Making
Standard 3Students engage in meaning-making through discourse and other strategies.
Metacognition
Standard 4Students engage in metacognitive activity to increase understanding of and responsibility for their own learning.
Integrated Assessment
Standard 5Assessment is integrated into instruction.
Professional Responsibilities — five standards (20%).
School Community
Standard 1Commitment to the school community.
Reflection
Standard 2Reflection on professional growth and practice.
Professional Obligations
Standard 3Professional obligations.
Family Engagement
Standard 4Family engagement.
Student Perception
Standard 5Student perception.
The Student Performance domain (15%)
The third domain is measured through Educational Growth Goals (EGGs) — which replaced Student Learning Goals under SB 460 in 2025 — scored on a five-point scale and weighting 15% of the summative. First-year probationary teachers and educators at turnaround schools do not include student performance data; for them, Instructional Practice weights 80% and Professional Responsibilities 20%.
The educator sets and gathers evidence for the goal, and the evaluator scores it in the district's NEPF process. EvalScribe drafts the two practice domains, not the EGG score.
The four NEPF rating levels.
Highly Effective
3.60–4.0Effective
2.80–3.59Developing
1.91–2.79Ineffective
1.0–1.9How EvalScribe handles the NEPF
All ten practice standards — five Instructional Practice and five Professional Responsibilities — are built into the tool, each with the NEPF's own language and indicators and the distinctions that separate adjacent levels. EvalScribe maps the evidence from your observation notes to the standard and indicator it supports and drafts best-fit ratings and evidence-anchored feedback, so the write-up is defensible and traceable back to what you observed.
Scope of the score. EvalScribe drafts the two practice domains — Instructional Practice (65%) and Professional Responsibilities (20%), the 85% of the summative that comes from observation and evidence. The Student Performance domain (15%, via Educational Growth Goals) and the final cut-score calculation into a Highly Effective, Effective, Developing, or Ineffective rating are handled in your district's NEPF process, not the app.
Current with Nevada's framework. EvalScribe uses the NEPF standards and the terminology in effect now, including the 2025 shift from Student Learning Goals to Educational Growth Goals. If your district layers additional local guidance onto the NEPF and you'd like to see it reflected, email [email protected].
How EvalScribe works with the NEPF.
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 standards
EvalScribe identifies which NEPF standard and indicator each note supports, across the two 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 the NEPF.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for NEPF 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 NEPF, its ten practice standards, or its four-level scale. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Built around the NEPF's actual standards, indicators, and four-level scale. |
| Standard mapping | ✕Invents standard and indicator labels and rubric language that don't match the NEPF. | ✓Maps evidence to the real NEPF standards and indicators using the actual framework loaded into the app. |
| Current terminology | ✕May reach for retired terms like Student Learning Goals rather than the 2025 Educational Growth Goals. | ✓Uses the NEPF as it stands now, including the SB 460 shift to Educational Growth Goals. |
| Scope of the score | ✕Assumes the observation is the whole rating, ignoring the 15% Student Performance domain. | ✓Drafts the two practice domains (85%); leaves EGGs and the cut-score calculation to your district. |
| Rating levels | ✕Defaults to generic good-to-bad framing that misses Nevada's levels and cut scores. | ✓Drafts toward Nevada's four levels — Highly Effective, Effective, Developing, 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 NEPF. |
| 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 Nevada 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 NEPF 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.
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For a single evaluator on their own device.
Billed annually per user
- Unlimited evaluations
- All supported frameworks, including the NEPF
- 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 NEPF & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support the NEPF?
Yes. EvalScribe is built around the Nevada Educator Performance Framework — all ten practice standards across the two educator-practice domains, Instructional Practice and Professional Responsibilities, with the NEPF's own indicators. It maps your observation evidence to the standard it supports and drafts a rating and feedback for each, using the framework's language across the four levels: Highly Effective, Effective, Developing, Ineffective.
How is a Nevada teacher's rating weighted?
A teacher's summative rating combines Instructional Practice (65%), Professional Responsibilities (20%), and Student Performance (15%). EvalScribe drafts the two practice domains — the 85% that comes from observation and evidence. The Student Performance domain and the final scoring are handled in your district's NEPF process. First-year probationary teachers and turnaround schools weight practice at 100% (80% / 20%), with no student performance data.
What changed with SB 460 in 2025?
SB 460 replaced Student Learning Goals (SLGs) with Educational Growth Goals (EGGs), scored on a five-point scale and still weighting 15% of the summative. It also updated probationary observation cycles, restructured Performance Improvement Plans, established a statewide evaluator certification program, and requires an annual review of at least 3% of evaluations. EvalScribe uses the current terminology.
Does EvalScribe calculate the summative rating?
No. EvalScribe drafts the Instructional Practice and Professional Responsibilities write-up from your observation evidence. The Student Performance domain (Educational Growth Goals) and the final cut-score calculation — Highly Effective at 3.60 and above, Effective, Developing, Ineffective below 1.9 — are handled in your district's NEPF process, not the app.
What are the NEPF rating levels?
Four: Highly Effective (3.60–4.0), Effective (2.80–3.59), Developing (1.91–2.79), and Ineffective (1.0–1.9). The cut scores were recommended by the Teachers and Leaders Council and approved by the State Board of Education. EvalScribe drafts toward these levels using each standard's own criteria.
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 NEPF. They invent standards, reach for retired terms like Student Learning Goals, and produce vague comments that miss the level distinctions the framework requires. EvalScribe is built around the NEPF's actual standards, indicators, and four-level scale — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds them — from capture through final export.
Where can I read the official NEPF sources?
The Nevada Department of Education maintains the Nevada Educator Performance Framework site with the standards, rubrics, protocols, and the SB 460 updates. The governing law is NRS Chapter 391, and the standards are set out in Nevada Administrative Code Chapter 391.
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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