AI-powered teacher evaluations
for South Carolina educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around the SCTS 4.0 rubric natively — all four domains, all twenty-three indicators, and the Unsatisfactory to Exemplary scale, in the rubric's own language.
Saved per evaluation
Across all 4 SCTS domains
Unsatisfactory to Exemplary
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.
South Carolina-specific
All four SCTS 4.0 domains and 23 indicators, 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 South Carolina evaluator.
The SCTS 4.0 rubric. EvalScribe is built around all four domains.
South Carolina evaluates teachers through the Expanded ADEPT Support and Evaluation System, using the South Carolina Teaching Standards 4.0 (SCTS 4.0) rubric — the state's adaptation of NIET's Teaching Standards 4.0. Its four domains and twenty-three indicators are the observation core of an ADEPT evaluation. EvalScribe is built around the rubric and its own language.
South Carolina Teaching Standards 4.0
The SCTS 4.0 rubric describes classroom practice across four domains and twenty-three indicators, each scored from Unsatisfactory to Exemplary. EvalScribe maps your observation evidence to the indicator it supports and drafts a rating and evidence-anchored feedback in the rubric's own language.
Four domains. Twenty-three indicators.
Instruction
12 indicators- 1.1 Standards and Objectives
- 1.2 Motivating Students
- 1.3 Presenting Instructional Content
- 1.4 Lesson Structure and Pacing
- 1.5 Activities and Materials
- 1.6 Questioning
- 1.7 Academic Feedback
- 1.8 Grouping Students
- 1.9 Teacher Content Knowledge
- 1.10 Teacher Knowledge of Students
- 1.11 Thinking
- 1.12 Problem Solving
Planning
3 indicators- 2.1 Instructional Plans
- 2.2 Student Work
- 2.3 Assessment
Environment
4 indicators- 3.1 Expectations
- 3.2 Engaging Students and Managing Behavior
- 3.3 Environment
- 3.4 Respectful Culture
Professionalism
4 indicators- 4.1 Growing and Developing Professionally
- 4.2 Reflecting on Teaching
- 4.3 Community Involvement
- 4.4 School Responsibilities
The four SCTS 4.0 ratings.
Unsatisfactory
Needs Improvement
Proficient
The professional standardExemplary
Proficient is the expected professional standard — sound instruction that reaches most students. Exemplary reflects distinguished practice where students take ownership and the teacher reaches all learners, and EvalScribe drafts to each level's own criteria.
The SLO and the ADEPT process
Alongside the rubric, the SCDE requires at least one Student Learning Objective (SLO) each year as part of a teacher's evaluation. Under Expanded ADEPT, induction and formally evaluated teachers are observed and scored on the full rubric, while continuing-contract teachers often work through a Goals-Based Evaluation.
EvalScribe drafts the SCTS 4.0 rubric write-up. The SLO and the overall ADEPT determination — including any Goals-Based Evaluation process — are handled by the district, outside the app.
How EvalScribe handles SCTS 4.0
All four domains and all twenty-three indicators are built into the tool, each with the rubric's own language across the four levels and the descriptors and distinctions that separate adjacent ratings. EvalScribe maps the evidence from your observation notes to the indicator 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 teacher's ADEPT evaluation.
Scope of the score. EvalScribe drafts the observation-based SCTS 4.0 rubric. The Student Learning Objective and the overall Expanded ADEPT determination are handled by the district, not the app.
Current with South Carolina's system. EvalScribe uses the SCTS 4.0 rubric as adopted by the SCDE under Expanded ADEPT. If your district layers additional local guidance onto ADEPT and you'd like to see it reflected, email [email protected].
How EvalScribe works with SCTS 4.0.
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 indicators
EvalScribe identifies which of the 23 SCTS 4.0 indicators 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 SCTS 4.0.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for SCTS 4.0 documentation, "sounds polished" isn't the bar. Defensible, rubric-aligned evaluations are.
| Capability | Generic AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) | EvalScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Framework awareness | ✕No concept of SCTS 4.0, its 23 indicators, or its four-level scale. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Built around the SCTS 4.0 rubric's actual four domains, indicator language, and Unsatisfactory to Exemplary scale. |
| Indicator mapping | ✕Invents domain and indicator labels and rubric language that don't match SCTS 4.0. | ✓Maps evidence to the real 23 SCTS indicators (1.1-4.4) using the actual rubric loaded into the app. |
| The Proficient standard | ✕Treats the scale as generic good-to-bad, missing that Proficient — not Exemplary — is the professional standard. | ✓Drafts to the real SCTS bar — Proficient is sound, expected practice; Exemplary requires student-ownership evidence. |
| Rubric vs. SLO | ✕Blurs the observation rubric together with the Student Learning Objective. | ✓Drafts the SCTS rubric write-up and leaves the SLO and the ADEPT determination to the district. |
| Instruction-domain depth | ✕Collapses the twelve-indicator Instruction domain into vague generalities. | ✓Handles all twelve Instruction indicators — from Questioning to Problem Solving — individually. |
| 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 SCTS 4.0 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 South 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 SCTS 4.0 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 SCTS 4.0
- 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.
SCTS 4.0 & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support SCTS 4.0?
Yes, for the observation-based component. EvalScribe is built around all four SCTS 4.0 domains — Instruction, Planning, Environment, and Professionalism — and all twenty-three indicators, with the rubric's own language. It maps your observation evidence to the indicator it supports and drafts a rating and feedback across the four levels: Unsatisfactory, Needs Improvement, Proficient, Exemplary.
What is Expanded ADEPT, and how does SCTS 4.0 fit in?
Expanded ADEPT — Assisting, Developing, and Evaluating Professional Teaching — is South Carolina's statewide support and evaluation system, run by the SCDE. The SCTS 4.0 rubric, adapted from NIET's Teaching Standards 4.0, is the classroom-practice tool at its center. EvalScribe is built around the SCTS 4.0 rubric; the broader ADEPT process is handled by the district.
Does EvalScribe handle the Student Learning Objective?
The SCDE requires at least one Student Learning Objective (SLO) each year as part of a teacher's evaluation. The SLO is a separate measure of student growth, set and scored through the district's ADEPT process. EvalScribe drafts the SCTS 4.0 rubric-based observation write-up; the SLO is handled outside the app.
What do the SCTS 4.0 ratings mean?
The scale runs Unsatisfactory, Needs Improvement, Proficient, Exemplary. Proficient is the expected professional standard — sound instruction that reaches most students. Exemplary reflects distinguished practice where students take ownership and the teacher reaches all learners. EvalScribe drafts toward these levels using each indicator's own criteria.
Does EvalScribe produce the overall ADEPT rating?
No. EvalScribe drafts the observation write-up and best-fit ratings on the SCTS 4.0 rubric. The overall Expanded ADEPT determination combines the rubric with the Student Learning Objective and any Goals-Based Evaluation process, and is handled by the district, 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 SCTS 4.0. They invent domains and indicators, blur the observation rubric together with the SLO, hand out Exemplary freely, and produce vague comments that miss the level distinctions the rubric requires. EvalScribe is built around the SCTS 4.0 rubric's actual four domains and twenty-three indicators — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds it — from capture through final export.
Where can I read the official SCTS 4.0 sources?
The South Carolina Department of Education publishes the Expanded ADEPT system and the SCTS 4.0 rubric through its Office of Educator Effectiveness. The rubric is South Carolina's adaptation of the NIET Teaching Standards 4.0, and one Student Learning Objective is required annually.
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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