AI-powered teacher evaluations
for NIET schools.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe supports administrators who use the NIET Teaching and Learning Standards Rubric. 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 NIET evaluators
Works with districts that use the NIET rubric.
Privacy-first
Transient processing on Microsoft Azure. Never used for AI training.
Built for workflow
Built for the realities of evaluating with the NIET rubric.
The NIET rubric. EvalScribe supports evaluators who use it.
The Teaching and Learning Standards Rubric is published by the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET) and used by districts and states across the country. EvalScribe supports administrators who already use it. What the rubric requires, and what each rating means, comes from your district's NIET documentation.
NIET Teaching and Learning Standards Rubric
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 NIET documentation.
The domain structure and rating scale belong to NIET, and your district's NIET 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 EvalScribe works with the NIET rubric
EvalScribe supports administrators who use the NIET rubric. 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. 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. Any student-growth measures and the overall summative rating are determined by your district's NIET implementation, not the app.
An independent tool. EvalScribe is not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching. It supports administrators who already use the rubric. Questions about how EvalScribe fits your district's setup? Email [email protected].
How EvalScribe works with the NIET rubric.
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 NIET rubric.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for NIET documentation, "sounds polished" isn't the bar. Defensible evaluations are.
| Capability | Generic AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) | EvalScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Framework awareness | ✕Isn't designed around evaluation write-ups or the NIET rubric your district uses. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Works with administrators who use the NIET rubric. 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 NIET rubric 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. |
| 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 NIET 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 NIET 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 NIET 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 NIET rubric
- 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 NIET rubric & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support the NIET rubric?
Yes. EvalScribe supports administrators who use the NIET Teaching and Learning Standards Rubric. 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 NIET documentation. The ratings are yours.
Who decides what each NIET rating means?
Your district's NIET documentation and training do. EvalScribe does not define the levels. It offers suggested draft ratings for your review, and you decide every rating.
Is the NIET rubric the same as the TAP rubric?
The NIET rubric is associated with the TAP System for Teacher and Student Advancement. EvalScribe supports administrators in districts and states that use NIET-based rubrics. Questions about your district's setup? Email [email protected].
Is EvalScribe affiliated with NIET?
No. The NIET rubric belongs to the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching. EvalScribe is an independent tool that supports administrators who already use the rubric. It is not a substitute for your district's official NIET 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 NIET sources?
NIET describes its rubric and observation system on its Rubric and Observation Systems page. States that have adopted NIET-based rubrics — including South Carolina and Louisiana — also publish their handbooks.
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.
Lead your building.
EvalScribe was built to help administrators spend less time documenting NIET evaluations and more time doing what matters: leading instruction, coaching teachers, and walking buildings.
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