AI-powered teacher evaluations
for North Carolina educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around the NC Professional Teaching Standards natively — all five standards and the Not Demonstrated to Distinguished scale of the Rubric for Evaluating North Carolina Teachers, in the standards' own language.
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Not Demonstrated to Distinguished
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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.
North Carolina-specific
All five NC Professional Teaching Standards and 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 North Carolina evaluator.
The NC Professional Teaching Standards. EvalScribe is built around all five.
The North Carolina Educator Evaluation System (NCEES) is the statewide system for evaluating every teacher, administered by NCDPI. Teacher practice is scored on the Rubric for Evaluating North Carolina Teachers, organized around five Professional Teaching Standards. EvalScribe is built around those five standards and the rubric's own language.
Five Professional Teaching Standards
Each standard is described across multiple elements and rated on a five-level scale from Not Demonstrated to Distinguished. The five standards are the observation-based core of a North Carolina evaluation. EvalScribe maps your observation evidence to the standard and element it supports and drafts a rating and evidence-anchored feedback in the standards' own language.
The five standards.
Leadership
Standard 1Teachers demonstrate leadership — in the classroom, the school, and the profession, and by advocating for students and upholding professional ethics.
Respectful Environment
Standard 2Teachers establish a respectful environment for a diverse population of students, holding high expectations and working with families and communities.
Content Knowledge
Standard 3Teachers know the content they teach, aligning instruction with standards and making content relevant and connected across disciplines.
Facilitate Learning
Standard 4Teachers facilitate learning for their students — planning for diverse learners, using varied methods, developing critical thinking, and assessing progress.
Reflect on Practice
Standard 5Teachers reflect on their practice — analyzing student learning, linking professional growth to their goals, and adapting in a complex, changing environment.
The five rating levels.
Not Demonstrated
Developing
Proficient
The targetAccomplished
Distinguished
Proficient is the expected standard — beginning teachers must reach Proficient on Standards 1-5 to advance their license. A Not Demonstrated rating requires a written comment, and EvalScribe drafts to each level's own criteria.
Observations and student growth
NCEES sets the observation schedule: probationary teachers receive three formal observations by the principal and one by a peer; career-status teachers in a summative year receive three observations, at least one of them formal. A formal observation lasts at least 45 minutes or a full class period, and the first is preceded by a pre-observation conference.
Standard 6 — a teacher's contribution to student growth — is measured separately through EVAAS, the state's value-added model based on End-of-Grade and End-of-Course tests. EvalScribe drafts the Standards 1-5 write-up; the EVAAS growth measure is calculated by the state, outside the app.
How EvalScribe handles North Carolina evaluations
All five NC Professional Teaching Standards are built into the tool, each with the rubric's own language and elements and the distinctions that separate adjacent levels. EvalScribe maps the evidence from your observation notes to the standard and element it supports and drafts best-fit ratings and evidence-anchored feedback, so the write-up is defensible and traceable back to what you observed — ready for the Teacher Summary Rating Form.
Scope of the score. EvalScribe drafts the observation-based Standards 1-5. Standard 6 (the EVAAS student-growth measure) is calculated by the state, and the final Teacher Summary Rating Form and the summative process are handled in your district's NCEES tools, not the app.
Current with North Carolina's rules. EvalScribe uses the NC Professional Teaching Standards and the Rubric for Evaluating North Carolina Teachers as they stand under the state's current evaluation rules. If your district layers additional local guidance onto NCEES and you'd like to see it reflected, email [email protected].
How EvalScribe works with NCEES.
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 NC standard and element each note supports, across all five standards.
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 NCEES.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for NCEES 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 NC Professional Teaching Standards or the five-level scale. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Built around the five NC standards, their elements, and the Not Demonstrated to Distinguished scale. |
| Standard mapping | ✕Invents standard and element labels and rubric language that don't match the NC rubric. | ✓Maps evidence to the real NC standards and elements using the actual rubric loaded into the app. |
| The Proficient target | ✕Treats the scale as generic good-to-bad, missing that Proficient is the expected standard. | ✓Drafts to the real NC bar — Proficient is the expected level; Distinguished requires clear, sustained evidence. |
| Scope of the score | ✕Assumes the observation is the whole rating, ignoring the EVAAS student-growth measure. | ✓Drafts Standards 1-5; leaves the EVAAS growth measure and summary rating to the state and district. |
| Not Demonstrated | ✕No awareness that a Not Demonstrated rating requires a written comment. | ✓Flags where a comment is required and drafts evidence-based language for it. |
| 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 NC standards. |
| 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 North Carolina 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 NCEES 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 NC standards
- 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.
NCEES & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support NCEES?
Yes, for the observation-based component. EvalScribe is built around all five NC Professional Teaching Standards and their elements, with the Rubric for Evaluating North Carolina Teachers' own language. It maps your observation evidence to the standard and element it supports and drafts a rating and feedback across the five levels: Not Demonstrated, Developing, Proficient, Accomplished, Distinguished.
How many observations does North Carolina require?
Probationary teachers receive three formal observations by the principal and one by a peer. Career-status teachers in a summative year receive three observations, at least one formal. A formal observation lasts at least 45 minutes or a full class period, and the first is preceded by a pre-observation conference. EvalScribe drafts the written record for each.
How is student growth handled in North Carolina?
Standard 6 — a teacher's contribution to student growth — is measured through EVAAS, the state's value-added model based on End-of-Grade and End-of-Course tests. It is calculated by the state, separate from the observation-based Standards 1-5. EvalScribe drafts the Standards 1-5 write-up; the EVAAS measure is handled outside the app.
What do the NC rating levels mean?
The scale runs Not Demonstrated, Developing, Proficient, Accomplished, Distinguished. Proficient is the expected standard — beginning teachers must reach Proficient on Standards 1-5 to advance their license. A Not Demonstrated rating requires a written comment. EvalScribe drafts toward these levels using each standard's own criteria.
Does EvalScribe complete the Teacher Summary Rating Form?
EvalScribe drafts the observation write-up and best-fit ratings for Standards 1-5, ready to inform the Teacher Summary Rating Form. The EVAAS student-growth measure and the final summary rating are handled in your district's NCEES tools, hosted online in the state system, 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 the NC Professional Teaching Standards. They invent standards and elements, hand out Distinguished freely, and produce vague comments that miss the level distinctions the rubric requires. EvalScribe is built around the NC standards' actual structure and five-level scale — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds them — from capture through final export.
Where can I read the official NCEES sources?
NCDPI publishes the NC Educator Evaluation System standards, rubric, and processes on its Educator Effectiveness Model page. The teacher evaluation process is set out at 16 NCAC 06C .0503, with the student-growth accountability rules at 16 NCAC 06M (effective July 1, 2025).
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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