AI-powered teacher evaluations
for Rhode Island educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around the RI Model Teacher Professional Practice Rubric natively — the classroom observation tool, all eight components across Classroom Environment and Instruction, and the Ineffective to Highly Effective scale, in the rubric's own language.
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Environment & Instruction, built in
Ineffective to Highly Effective
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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.
Rhode Island-specific
Both RI Model Professional Practice domains and all eight components, 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 Rhode Island evaluator.
The RI Model Professional Practice Rubric. EvalScribe is built around all eight components.
The Rhode Island Model Evaluation & Support System is RIDE's statewide framework. A teacher's Final Effectiveness Rating combines three measures — Professional Practice, Professional Responsibilities, and Student Learning. EvalScribe is built around the Professional Practice Rubric, the classroom observation tool at the center of the model.
The RI Model Teacher Professional Practice Rubric
Adapted from Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching, the Professional Practice Rubric is a classroom observation tool with eight components organized into two domains — Classroom Environment and Instruction. Each component is scored after an observation, from Ineffective to Highly Effective. EvalScribe maps your observation evidence to the component it supports and drafts a rating and evidence-anchored feedback in the rubric's own language.
Two domains. Eight components.
Classroom Environment
4 components- 2a Creating an Environment of Respect and Rapport
- 2b Establishing a Culture for Learning
- 2c Managing Classroom Procedures
- 2d Managing Student Behavior
Instruction
4 components- 3a Communicating with Students
- 3b Using Questioning/Prompts and Discussion
- 3c Engaging Students in Learning
- 3d Using Assessment in Instruction
The four RI Model ratings.
Ineffective
Developing
Effective
The professional standardHighly Effective
Effective is the expected professional standard — consistent practice that works for students. Highly Effective adds that students take an active, self-directed role in sustaining the environment or their learning, and EvalScribe drafts to each level's own criteria.
The other measures and the observation cadence
Alongside Professional Practice, the RI Model scores Professional Responsibilities (rated holistically at the end of the year) and Student Learning (through Student Learning Objectives, Student Outcome Objectives, Student Learning Goals, or Embedded Practice). All three combine into the Final Effectiveness Rating.
Professional Practice components are scored after each observation, and up to six observation scores may be averaged. Under RIGL 16-12-11, a teacher rated Highly Effective is evaluated at most once every three years and a teacher rated Effective at most once every two, while non-tenured, Developing, and Ineffective educators receive a full evaluation. EvalScribe drafts the Professional Practice write-up; the other measures and the final rating are handled by the district.
How EvalScribe handles the RI Model
Both Professional Practice domains and all eight components are built into the tool, each with the rubric's own language across the four levels and the critical attributes and distinctions that separate adjacent ratings. EvalScribe maps the evidence from your observation notes to the component it supports and drafts best-fit ratings and evidence-anchored feedback — so the write-up is defensible, traceable back to what you observed, and ready to inform the Professional Practice score.
Scope of the score. EvalScribe drafts the observation-based Professional Practice Rubric. Professional Responsibilities, Student Learning, and the Final Effectiveness Rating are determined by the district under the RI Model, not the app.
Current with RIDE's system. EvalScribe uses the RI Model Teacher Professional Practice Rubric as it stands in RIDE's current edition. If your district layers additional local guidance onto the RI Model and you'd like to see it reflected, email [email protected].
How EvalScribe works with the RI Model.
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 of the eight Professional Practice components each note supports, across both 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 RI Model.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for RI Model documentation, "sounds polished" isn't the bar. Defensible, rubric-aligned evaluations are.
| Capability | Generic AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) | EvalScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Framework awareness | ✕No concept of the RI Model, its eight Professional Practice components, or its four-level scale. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Built around the RI Model rubric's actual components, Danielson-adapted language, and Ineffective to Highly Effective scale. |
| Component mapping | ✕Invents domain and component labels and rubric language that don't match the RI Model. | ✓Maps evidence to the real eight components (2a-2d, 3a-3d) using the actual rubric loaded into the app. |
| The Effective standard | ✕Treats the scale as generic good-to-bad, missing that Effective — not Highly Effective — is the professional standard. | ✓Drafts to the real RI Model bar — Effective is consistent, expected practice; Highly Effective requires student-driven evidence. |
| Scope of the score | ✕Blurs Professional Practice together with Professional Responsibilities and Student Learning. | ✓Drafts the Professional Practice observation and leaves the other measures and the final rating to the district. |
| Observation focus | ✕Reaches for Danielson's planning and professional-responsibility domains that aren't part of the observation tool. | ✓Stays within the two observable domains — Classroom Environment and Instruction — the RI observation rubric actually scores. |
| 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 RI Model rubric. |
| 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 Rhode Island 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 RI Model 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 the RI Model
- 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 RI Model & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support the RI Model?
Yes, for the observation-based component. EvalScribe is built around the RI Model Teacher Professional Practice Rubric — the classroom observation tool — with both domains, Classroom Environment and Instruction, and all eight components (2a-2d, 3a-3d). It maps your observation evidence to the component it supports and drafts a rating and feedback across the four levels: Ineffective, Developing, Effective, Highly Effective.
What are the three RI Model measures?
A teacher's Final Effectiveness Rating combines Professional Practice (the observation rubric), Professional Responsibilities (rated holistically at year end), and Student Learning (through SLOs, SOOs, Student Learning Goals, or Embedded Practice). EvalScribe drafts the Professional Practice write-up; the other two measures and the final rating are determined by the district.
How many observations does Rhode Island require?
Professional Practice components are scored after each observation, and up to six observation scores may be averaged. Under RIGL 16-12-11, a teacher rated Highly Effective is evaluated at most once every three years and a teacher rated Effective at most once every two, while non-tenured, Developing, and Ineffective educators receive a full evaluation. EvalScribe drafts the written record for each observation.
Why does the rubric only cover two domains?
The RI Model Teacher Professional Practice Rubric is specifically a classroom observation tool, so it focuses on the two directly observable domains — Classroom Environment and Instruction — adapted from Danielson's Framework for Teaching. Planning and professional-responsibility evidence is captured through the separate Professional Responsibilities measure, not the observation rubric. EvalScribe follows the same structure.
Does EvalScribe produce the Final Effectiveness Rating?
No. EvalScribe drafts the observation write-up and best-fit ratings on the Professional Practice Rubric. The Final Effectiveness Rating combines Professional Practice with Professional Responsibilities and Student Learning and is determined by the district under the RI Model, 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 RI Model. They invent components, reach for Danielson domains that aren't part of the observation tool, hand out Highly Effective freely, and produce vague comments that miss the level distinctions the rubric requires. EvalScribe is built around the RI Model Professional Practice Rubric's actual components and scale — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds it — from capture through final export.
Where can I read the official RI Model sources?
RIDE publishes the RI Model guidebook, the Teacher Professional Practice Rubric, and related resources on its RI Model Evaluation Resources page. The evaluation-frequency provisions are set in RIGL 16-12-11, and the system is built on the Rhode Island Professional Teaching Standards.
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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