AI-powered teacher evaluations
for Stronge schools.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around the Stronge Teacher Effectiveness Performance Evaluation System (TEPES) natively — its seven performance standards and the Ineffective to Highly Effective scale, in the model's own language.
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The Stronge model, built in
Ineffective to Highly Effective
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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.
Stronge-specific
All seven Stronge performance standards and the four-level scale, built in natively.
Privacy-first
Transient processing on Microsoft Azure. Never used for AI training.
Built for workflow
Designed around the realities of evaluating with the Stronge model.
The Stronge TEPES. EvalScribe is built around all seven standards.
Developed by Dr. James H. Stronge, the Stronge Teacher Effectiveness Performance Evaluation System (TEPES) is a research-based framework used by districts and states across the country. It uses a two-tiered structure of seven performance standards and multiple performance indicators, scored on a four-level scale from Ineffective to Highly Effective. EvalScribe is built around the model's own structure and language.
Stronge Teacher Effectiveness Performance Evaluation System
The Stronge model evaluates teachers against six research-based professional standards, plus a seventh standard, Student Progress, that is results-based and measures student academic growth. Evidence is gathered from multiple sources across the year, and the evaluator determines where the preponderance of evidence places the teacher on each standard. EvalScribe maps your observation notes to the standard they support and drafts a rating and evidence-anchored feedback in the model's own language.
Seven performance standards.
Professional Knowledge
Understanding of the curriculum, subject content, pedagogy, and the developmental needs of students.
Instructional Planning
Planning with standards, curriculum, effective strategies, resources, and data to meet learning needs.
Instructional Delivery
Engaging students through a variety of instructional strategies that meet individual learning needs.
Assessment of/for Learning
Gathering, analyzing, and using data to measure progress and guide instructional content and delivery.
Learning Environment
Creating a safe, respectful, and well-managed environment that supports learning for every student.
Professionalism
Ethical conduct, collaboration, communication with families, and ongoing professional growth.
Student Progress
Results-basedThe results-based standard: the work of teaching should result in acceptable, measurable student academic progress. Set and measured through the district's process.
The four Stronge ratings.
Ineffective
Partially Effective
Effective
The expected levelHighly Effective
Effective is the expected level of performance — consistent practice, aligned with the school's mission, with a positive impact on student learning. Highly Effective reflects sustained, high-impact practice that can model for peers. EvalScribe drafts to each level's own criteria.
Multiple data sources, customized locally
Stronge is designed to draw on multiple data sources — observations, artifacts, goal setting and student learning objectives, and optional surveys — to build a complete performance portrait. The model is also fully customizable: districts and states adapt the indicators, weighting, and documentation requirements to their own context.
EvalScribe drafts the observation-based portion of that evidence. Student Progress data and the overall summative rating are set through the district's process, outside the app.
How EvalScribe handles the Stronge model
All seven performance standards and the four-level scale are built into the tool, with the distinctions that separate Ineffective from Partially Effective from Effective from Highly Effective. EvalScribe maps the evidence from your observation notes to the standard it supports and drafts best-fit ratings and evidence-anchored feedback in the model's own language — so the write-up is defensible, traceable back to what you observed, and ready to inform the evaluation.
Scope of the score. EvalScribe drafts the observation-based write-up. Student Progress (Standard 7) data and the overall summative rating are determined by your district, not the app.
An independent tool. EvalScribe is not affiliated with Dr. James Stronge or Stronge & Associates; it supports administrators who already use the model. If your district customizes the indicators or documentation, tell us at [email protected] and we'll make sure it's reflected.
How EvalScribe works with the Stronge 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 standards
EvalScribe identifies which of the seven Stronge performance standards each note supports.
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 Stronge model.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for Stronge 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 Stronge model, its seven standards, or its four-level scale. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Built around the Stronge model's actual standards, indicator language, and four-level scale. |
| Standard mapping | ✕Invents standard and indicator labels and rubric language that don't match the Stronge model. | ✓Maps evidence to the real seven Stronge standards using the actual model loaded into the app. |
| Practice vs. progress | ✕Blurs the observation write-up together with the Student Progress data behind Standard 7. | ✓Drafts the observation-based standards and leaves Student Progress data and the summative rating to the district. |
| The Effective standard | ✕Treats the scale as generic good-to-bad, missing that Effective — not Highly Effective — is the expected level. | ✓Drafts to the real Stronge bar — Effective is consistent, expected practice; Highly Effective requires sustained high impact. |
| Preponderance of evidence | ✕Reacts to a single moment rather than weighing the body of evidence for a standard. | ✓Keeps ratings anchored to the evidence you captured, the way the model's preponderance-of-evidence approach expects. |
| 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 Stronge model. |
| 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 Stronge 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 Stronge 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 Stronge 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 Stronge model & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support the Stronge model?
Yes. EvalScribe is built around the Stronge Teacher Effectiveness Performance Evaluation System — all seven performance standards and the four-level scale. It maps your observation evidence to the standard it supports and drafts a rating and feedback in the model's own language, from Ineffective to Highly Effective.
What are the seven Stronge performance standards?
Professional Knowledge, Instructional Planning, Instructional Delivery, Assessment of/for Learning, Learning Environment, Professionalism, and Student Progress. The first six are research-based professional standards; the seventh, Student Progress, is a results-based standard for measurable student growth.
What are the Stronge rating levels?
Ineffective, Partially Effective, Effective, and Highly Effective. Effective is the expected level of performance — consistent practice aligned with the school's mission and a positive impact on student learning. The evaluator places the teacher on each standard using the preponderance of evidence.
Does EvalScribe handle Student Progress and the summative rating?
No. Student Progress (Standard 7) is a results-based standard set through the district's goal-setting and student-growth process. The overall summative rating combines all seven standards. EvalScribe drafts the observation-based write-up; the progress data and the final rating are handled by the district, outside the app.
Is EvalScribe affiliated with Stronge & Associates?
No. The Stronge model is a proprietary framework owned by Dr. James Stronge and Stronge & Associates. EvalScribe is an independent drafting tool that supports administrators who already use the model; it references the model's structure for compatibility, and does not replace your district's official scoring platform.
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 Stronge model. They invent standards and indicators, blur the observation write-up together with Student Progress, hand out Highly Effective freely, and produce vague comments that miss the level distinctions the model requires. EvalScribe is built around the Stronge model's actual standards and four-level scale — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds it — from capture through final export.
Where can I read the official Stronge model sources?
The model is published by Stronge & Associates Educational Consulting. Many states and districts that have adopted it — including the Virginia performance standards built on the Stronge model — also post their handbooks, indicators, and rubrics publicly.
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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