AI-powered teacher evaluations
for New Jersey educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around the Danielson Framework, the most widely used AchieveNJ teacher practice instrument in New Jersey, drafting the observation write-up in the framework's own language.
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Danielson domains, built in
Teacher practice share
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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.
New Jersey-specific
Built on Danielson, the AchieveNJ practice instrument most NJ districts use.
Privacy-first
Transient processing on Microsoft Azure. Never used for AI training.
Built for workflow
Designed around the realities of being a New Jersey evaluator.
AchieveNJ. EvalScribe is built around Danielson.
AchieveNJ is New Jersey's statewide educator evaluation system, established under the TEACHNJ Act and set out at N.J.A.C. 6A:10. It combines teacher practice with student-growth measures. Districts choose a state-approved teacher practice instrument, and the most widely used is the Danielson Framework — the framework EvalScribe is built around.
Teacher practice, measured on the Danielson Framework
Under AchieveNJ, teacher practice is measured on a state-approved practice instrument, gathered primarily through classroom observations. Most New Jersey districts use the Danielson Framework, whose four domains organize the observed and documented work of teaching. EvalScribe maps your observation evidence to the component it supports and drafts a rating and evidence-anchored feedback in the framework's own language.
The four Danielson domains.
Planning and Preparation
Before the lessonKnowledge of content, students, and resources, and coherent instructional design and assessment planning.
Classroom Environment
The classroomA culture of respect and rapport, clear expectations, managed routines, and a space that supports learning.
Instruction
Teaching in actionClear communication, strong questioning and discussion, student engagement, and using assessment to adjust instruction.
Professional Responsibilities
Beyond the lessonReflection on practice, accurate records, communication with families, professional growth, and contribution to the school.
How the components are weighted
A New Jersey teacher's summative rating combines teacher practice with student growth. For most teachers — those in non-tested grades and subjects — it is Teacher Practice 85% and Student Growth Objectives 15%. For teachers who qualify for a median Student Growth Percentile (ELA grades 4-8 or Math grades 4-7, with at least 20 students), it is Teacher Practice 70%, SGO 25%, and mSGP 5%.
EvalScribe drafts the teacher practice component. The SGOs, the mSGP, and the final summative calculation are handled in your district's AchieveNJ process.
Observation requirements
AchieveNJ sets minimum observations per year: three for non-tenured teachers and two for tenured teachers, each at least 20 minutes, with at least one announced and one unannounced, and a post-conference after each. EvalScribe drafts the written observation record for each of these, so the documentation keeps pace with the schedule.
The four AchieveNJ rating levels.
Highly Effective
Effective
Partially Effective
Ineffective
Every New Jersey teacher receives one of these four annual summative ratings. Practice-instrument scores map onto the same four levels; EvalScribe drafts toward them using the Danielson criteria and your district's rubric.
How EvalScribe handles New Jersey evaluations
The four Danielson domains are built into the tool, each with the framework's own language and the distinctions that separate adjacent levels. EvalScribe maps the evidence from your observation notes to the component it supports and drafts best-fit ratings and evidence-anchored feedback, so the teacher practice write-up is defensible and traceable back to what you observed — ready for your district's rubric and the post-conference.
Scope of the score. EvalScribe drafts the teacher practice component — the observation-based piece, which is 85% of the summative for most teachers and 70% for those with an mSGP. The Student Growth Objectives, the median Student Growth Percentile, and the final summative calculation into a Highly Effective, Effective, Partially Effective, or Ineffective rating are handled in your district's AchieveNJ process, not the app.
Built for New Jersey's menu. AchieveNJ lets districts choose from a list of state-approved practice instruments. EvalScribe is built around the Danielson Framework, the most widely adopted. If your district uses Marzano, Stronge, or another approved instrument and you'd like to see it supported, email [email protected] — hearing from you helps us prioritize.
How EvalScribe works with AchieveNJ.
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 components
EvalScribe identifies which Danielson component 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 AchieveNJ.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for AchieveNJ 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 Danielson domains AchieveNJ districts use. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Built around the four Danielson domains and their component language. |
| Component mapping | ✕Hallucinates domain and component labels and invents rubric language that doesn't match Danielson. | ✓Maps evidence to the real Danielson components using the actual framework loaded into the app. |
| AchieveNJ structure | ✕No idea teacher practice is one weighted component alongside SGOs and mSGP. | ✓Built for the teacher practice component; leaves SGOs, mSGP, and the summative to your district. |
| Observation record | ✕No awareness of the announced/unannounced, 20-minute, post-conference requirements. | ✓Produces a clean written observation record ready for the post-conference. |
| Rating levels | ✕Defaults to generic good-to-bad framing that misses New Jersey's four levels. | ✓Drafts toward Highly Effective, Effective, Partially Effective, 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 Danielson framework. |
| 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 New Jersey 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 Danielson 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 Danielson framework
- 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.
AchieveNJ & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support AchieveNJ?
Yes, for the teacher practice component. AchieveNJ lets districts choose a state-approved practice instrument, and EvalScribe is built around the most widely used, the Danielson Framework — all four domains, with the framework's own language. It maps your observation evidence to the component it supports and drafts a rating and feedback toward New Jersey's four levels: Highly Effective, Effective, Partially Effective, Ineffective.
How is a New Jersey teacher's rating weighted?
For most teachers (non-tested grades and subjects), it is Teacher Practice 85% and SGO 15%. For teachers who qualify for a median Student Growth Percentile, it is Teacher Practice 70%, SGO 25%, and mSGP 5%. EvalScribe drafts the teacher practice component; the SGOs, mSGP, and final calculation are handled in your district's AchieveNJ process. Weights are set annually by the NJDOE.
How many observations does AchieveNJ require?
Three per year for non-tenured teachers and two for tenured teachers, each at least 20 minutes, with at least one announced and one unannounced, and a post-conference after each. Teachers who end the year Partially Effective or Ineffective get an additional observation the next year under a corrective action plan. EvalScribe drafts the written record for each observation.
What if my district uses Marzano or another instrument?
AchieveNJ lets districts choose from a list of state-approved practice instruments — Danielson, Marzano, Stronge, McREL, and others. EvalScribe is built around Danielson, the most widely adopted. If your district uses a different approved instrument and you'd like to see it supported, email [email protected] — hearing from you helps us prioritize.
Does EvalScribe calculate the summative rating?
No. EvalScribe drafts the teacher practice write-up from your observation evidence. The Student Growth Objectives, the median Student Growth Percentile, and the weighted combination into a Highly Effective, Effective, Partially Effective, or Ineffective rating are handled in your district's AchieveNJ process, not the app.
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 AchieveNJ or the Danielson framework most districts use. They invent components, ignore that teacher practice is one weighted piece alongside SGOs and mSGP, and produce vague comments that miss the level distinctions the rubric requires. EvalScribe is built around the Danielson framework's actual structure — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds it — from capture through final export.
Where can I read the official AchieveNJ sources?
The New Jersey Department of Education publishes AchieveNJ resources, including the Teacher Practice requirements and annual rubric-weight notifications. The system is set out in the TEACHNJ Act and N.J.A.C. 6A:10, with observation requirements at N.J.A.C. 6A:10-4.4.
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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