AI-powered teacher evaluations
for North Dakota educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. North Dakota districts choose a state-approved model, and EvalScribe is built around the two most substantial natively — North Dakota's own CP²R model and the Danielson Framework, in each model's own language.
Saved per evaluation
CP²R & Danielson, built in
In each framework
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.
North Dakota-specific
North Dakota's own CP²R model and the Danielson Framework, 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 Dakota evaluator.
North Dakota is local-choice. EvalScribe supports both main models.
Each North Dakota district chooses one state-approved teacher evaluation model. The Department of Public Instruction approves four — CP²R, Danielson, Marshall, and Marzano. EvalScribe is built around the two most substantial: North Dakota's own CP²R model and the Danielson Framework.
The CP²R Teacher Evaluation Model
CP²R stands for Capacity, Passion, Presence, and Relevance — a North Dakota-developed, growth-focused model organized into four domains and eleven categories. It is deliberately formative: both the teacher's practice and the students' response are scored in each domain. EvalScribe maps your observation evidence to the category it supports and drafts a rating and evidence-anchored feedback in the model's own language.
Four domains, eleven categories.
Capacity
4 categoriesThe intellectual, physical, social, and emotional capacity to meet students' needs — and students' capacity to meet instructional expectations.
Passion
2 categoriesVisible care, enthusiasm, and energy toward teaching and learning — measured through affinity (Like) and Energy.
Presence
3 categoriesFocused, aware, and accepting presence during instruction — Attention, Awareness, and Acceptance, for teacher and students alike.
Relevance
2 categoriesConnecting learning to self and others in meaningful ways, so the work matters to students' lives and beyond.
The CP²R rating scale.
Not Evident
Somewhat Evident
Evident
Strongly Evident
CP²R is designed for formative, evidence-based reflection rather than compliance. Schools may focus on the domains that fit local priorities, and EvalScribe drafts to each category's own criteria.
The Danielson Framework for Teaching
North Dakota references the current 2022 Framework for Teaching — twenty-two components across four domains. EvalScribe is built around those four domains and drafts a rating and evidence-anchored feedback in the framework's own language, for districts that adopt Danielson rather than CP²R.
The four Danielson domains.
Planning & Preparation
6 componentsKnowledge of content, students, and resources, and coherent instructional design and assessment planning.
Learning Environments
5 componentsA culture of respect and rapport, clear expectations, managed routines, and a space that supports learning.
Learning Experiences
5 componentsClear communication, strong questioning and discussion, student engagement, and using assessment to adjust instruction.
Principled Teaching
6 componentsReflection on practice, accurate records, communication with families, professional growth, and contribution to the school.
The Danielson rating scale.
Unsatisfactory
Basic
Proficient
Distinguished
How EvalScribe handles North Dakota evaluations
EvalScribe is built around both of North Dakota's main approved models. Whichever your district has adopted — CP²R or Danielson — the domains, categories or components, and rating scale are built into the tool, with each model's own language and the distinctions that separate adjacent levels. EvalScribe maps the evidence from your observation notes to the right category or component and drafts best-fit ratings and evidence-anchored feedback, traceable back to what you observed.
The other two approved models. North Dakota also approves the Marshall and Marzano models. EvalScribe focuses on CP²R and Danielson today; if your district uses Marshall or Marzano and you'd like to see it supported, email [email protected] — hearing from you helps us prioritize.
Scope and cadence. State law (NDCC 15.1-15-01) requires teachers in their first three years to be evaluated at least twice a year and more experienced teachers at least once, with evaluations completed by April 15. EvalScribe drafts the observation write-up for each of these; your district's summative decisions and the state's teacher-effectiveness reporting through STARS are handled outside the app.
How EvalScribe works with North Dakota's models.
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 the model
EvalScribe identifies which CP²R category or 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 North Dakota.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for CP²R or Danielson documentation, "sounds polished" isn't the bar. Defensible, model-aligned evaluations are.
| Capability | Generic AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) | EvalScribe |
|---|---|---|
| CP²R awareness | ✕Has never heard of CP²R — invents domains or defaults to a generic rubric that isn't North Dakota's model. | ✓Built around CP²R's real domains and categories — Capacity, Passion, Presence, Relevance — and its Not Evident to Strongly Evident scale. |
| Two models, done right | ✕Can't tell CP²R from Danielson and blends their language together. | ✓Drafts to whichever model your district adopted, in that model's own language. |
| Teacher and student evidence | ✕Misses that CP²R scores both teacher practice and student response in each domain. | ✓Captures both teacher and student evidence the way CP²R intends. |
| Current Danielson | ✕Reaches for outdated Danielson domain names rather than the 2022 framework North Dakota references. | ✓Uses the current Danielson domains — Planning & Preparation, Learning Environments, Learning Experiences, Principled Teaching. |
| Rating scales | ✕Defaults to generic good-to-bad framing that misses each model's real scale. | ✓Drafts to CP²R's four levels or Danielson's, whichever applies. |
| 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 CP²R or Danielson. |
| 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 Dakota 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 CP²R or 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.
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Individual
For a single evaluator on their own device.
Billed annually per user
- Unlimited evaluations
- All supported frameworks, including CP²R and Danielson
- 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.
North Dakota evaluations & EvalScribe — common questions.
Which North Dakota evaluation models does EvalScribe support?
North Dakota approves four models — CP²R, Danielson, Marshall, and Marzano — and each district chooses one. EvalScribe is built around the two most substantial: North Dakota's own CP²R model and the Danielson Framework. Whichever your district uses, EvalScribe drafts the observation write-up in that model's own language. If you use Marshall or Marzano, let us know at [email protected].
What is CP²R, and what does it stand for?
CP²R is a North Dakota-developed evaluation model standing for Capacity, Passion, Presence, and Relevance — four domains and eleven categories in all. It is deliberately formative and growth-focused, and it scores both the teacher's practice and the students' response in each domain. EvalScribe is built around all four CP²R domains and its Not Evident to Strongly Evident scale.
What are the CP²R rating levels?
CP²R uses a four-level scale: Not Evident, Somewhat Evident, Evident, and Strongly Evident. The model is designed for evidence-based reflection rather than compliance, so schools may focus on the domains that fit their local priorities. EvalScribe drafts to each category's own criteria across those four levels.
Which Danielson edition does EvalScribe use for North Dakota?
North Dakota references the current 2022 Framework for Teaching, with its four domains — Planning & Preparation, Learning Environments, Learning Experiences, and Principled Teaching — and the Unsatisfactory to Distinguished scale. EvalScribe is built around those four domains for districts that adopt Danielson rather than CP²R.
How often does North Dakota require teacher evaluations?
Under state law (NDCC 15.1-15-01), teachers in their first three years are evaluated at least twice per school year, and more experienced teachers at least once, with evaluations completed by April 15. EvalScribe drafts the write-up for each observation; the state's teacher-effectiveness reporting through STARS is handled separately, outside 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 never heard of CP²R, and they reach for outdated Danielson labels rather than the 2022 framework North Dakota references. They invent domains, blend the two models together, and produce vague comments that miss each model's real scale. EvalScribe is built around CP²R and Danielson as North Dakota uses them — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds them — from capture through final export.
Where can I read the official North Dakota sources?
The North Dakota Department of Public Instruction lists the approved evaluation models, the CP²R and Danielson resources, and the reporting requirements on its Teacher Effectiveness Reporting page. The evaluation-frequency requirement is set in NDCC 15.1-15-01. CP²R training is provided through Drop the Knowledge.
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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