AI-powered teacher evaluations
for Tennessee educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around Tennessee's evaluation frameworks — TEAM and Project COACH, both natively, with their actual structures and rating scales.
Saved per evaluation
Both built in natively
To capture notes
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.
Tennessee-specific
Both TEAM and Project COACH built in natively, with their actual rating scales.
Privacy-first
Transient processing on Microsoft Azure. Never used for AI training.
Built for workflow
Designed around the realities of being a Tennessee evaluator.
Tennessee uses more than one evaluation framework. EvalScribe handles each natively.
Tennessee districts and charters select their observation model under State Board Educator Evaluation Policy 5.201. TEAM — the Tennessee Educator Acceleration Model — is the default and most widely used. Project COACH is a state-board-approved alternative used by a meaningful subset of Tennessee districts. EvalScribe is built around both natively, with their actual structures and rating scales, rather than forcing one to wear the other's clothes.
Which framework does your district use?
Jump to your framework's section, or scroll through both.
TEAM — Tennessee Educator Acceleration Model
TEAM is built around four observable domains and twenty-three indicators that map a teacher's practice across instruction, planning, environment, and professionalism. Each indicator is rated on a five-level performance rubric, from Significantly Below Expectations to Significantly Above Expectations. The observation component generates a Level of Overall Effectiveness (LOE) score that combines with student growth and achievement data to produce the final TEAM evaluation.
Four domains. Twenty-three indicators.
Instruction
12 indicatorsPlanning
3 indicatorsEnvironment
4 indicatorsProfessionalism
4 indicatorsThe five-level performance rubric.
Significantly Below
Below Expectations
At Expectations
Above Expectations
Significantly Above
How EvalScribe handles TEAM
All four TEAM domains and all twenty-three indicators are built into the tool. The five-level performance rubric is applied with rubric-aware logic that distinguishes between adjacent levels the way TEAM actually intends — particularly the At-Expectations-to-Above-Expectations distinction, where student ownership and depth begin to drive the lesson rather than the teacher alone.
Project COACH
Project COACH is built around the Kim Marshall framework — six domains covering sixty criteria from planning and preparation through family and community outreach. Each criterion is rated on a four-level performance scale, and a percentage-based summative score is calculated across all scored criteria. For state reporting in TNCompass, COACH scores convert automatically to Tennessee's five-level state rating scale.
Six domains. Sixty criteria.
Planning & Preparation for Learning
10 criteriaClassroom Management
10 criteriaDelivery of Instruction
10 criteriaMonitoring, Assessment & Follow-Up
10 criteriaFamily & Community Outreach
10 criteriaProfessional Responsibilities
10 criteriaThe four-level performance rubric with percentage thresholds.
Does Not Meet
≤59% scoreImprovement Necessary
60–74% scoreEffective
75–89% scoreHighly Effective
90%+ scoreHow EvalScribe handles Project COACH
All six COACH domains and all sixty criteria are built into the tool. Percentage-based summative scoring is applied as the framework actually intends, with automatic conversion to Tennessee's five-level state reporting scale for TNCompass. The four-level performance rubric is applied with rubric-aware logic that distinguishes between adjacent levels meaningfully — particularly the Effective-to-Highly-Effective distinction that turns on student ownership, mastery, and intentional design.
TEM and TIGER support — coming in a future build.
EvalScribe is also tracking the other state-board-approved observation models. Support for TEM and TIGER is on the development roadmap and coming in a future update. Tennessee evaluators using EvalScribe today won't be left behind as additional framework support is added.
How EvalScribe works with TEAM and Project COACH.
A five-step path from the back of the classroom to a finished, framework-aligned evaluation — whether your district uses TEAM or Project COACH.
Observe the classroom
Walkthrough or formal observation — 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 your framework
EvalScribe identifies which indicators (TEAM) or criteria (COACH) each note supports — using whichever framework your district uses.
Suggested ratings & comments
Get draft performance-level ratings and professional feedback language in the voice of the framework your district actually uses.
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 TEAM- and COACH-aware drafting pipeline as scans and dictation.
Why generic AI falls short for TEAM and Project COACH.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for TEAM or COACH documentation, "sounds polished" isn't the bar. Defensible, framework-aligned evaluations are.
| Capability | Generic AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) | EvalScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-framework awareness | ✕Has no understanding that Tennessee districts use different frameworks. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Recognizes which framework your district uses. TEAM uses its 5-level scale; COACH uses its 4-level scale with state conversion. |
| Indicator mapping | ✕Hallucinates indicator numbers and invents rubric language that doesn't exist in either framework. | ✓Maps evidence to the 23 TEAM indicators or the 60 COACH criteria using the actual rubric loaded into the app. |
| Rubric scoring | ✕Inconsistent ratings between teachers — and between sessions on the same teacher. | ✓Suggests framework-appropriate performance ratings (5 levels for TEAM, 4 levels with percentage scoring for COACH) based on captured evidence. |
| Level distinctions | ✕Defaults to generic "good/great" framing that misses the at-vs-above and effective-vs-highly-effective distinctions Tennessee's frameworks actually require. | ✓Rubric-aware scoring that meaningfully distinguishes between adjacent performance levels in each framework's own terms. |
| 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 voice of the framework your district actually uses. |
| Evaluator workflow | ✕No concept of walkthroughs, formal observations, or pre/post conferences. | ✓Built around the actual evaluator workflow, from capture to final exported PDF. |
| 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 indicator or criterion it supports. |
How much Tennessee 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 TEAM or Project COACH 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 TEAM and Project COACH
- 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.
Tennessee evaluation & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support both TEAM and Project COACH?
Yes — both frameworks are built in natively. TEAM uses its five-level performance rubric across four domains and twenty-three indicators. Project COACH uses its four-level rubric across six domains and sixty criteria, with percentage-based summative scoring and automatic conversion to Tennessee's five-level state scale for TNCompass reporting.
Does EvalScribe support TEM or TIGER?
Not yet. EvalScribe currently supports TEAM and Project COACH. Support for TEM and TIGER — the other state-board-approved observation models — is on the development roadmap and coming in a future update. Tennessee evaluators using EvalScribe today won't be left behind when additional framework support is added.
Does EvalScribe replace evaluator judgment?
No. EvalScribe drafts evidence-mapped evaluations and suggested performance-level ratings. The evaluator reviews, edits, and finalizes every document. The professional judgment is always yours — EvalScribe just removes the typing.
Does EvalScribe handle the full Tennessee evaluation, including TVAAS and student growth data?
No. EvalScribe addresses the observation component of the evaluation, which represents 50% of the final TEAM or COACH score. The remaining 50% — student growth data via TVAAS (35%) and a teacher-selected achievement measure (15%) — is handled outside the app, typically through TNCompass and other district systems.
Can the generated TEAM or COACH 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.
Does EvalScribe support walkthroughs as well as formal observations?
Yes. Brief walkthroughs and full formal observations both flow through the same capture-and-draft pipeline, so the documentation produced is consistent across observation types.
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 TEAM or Project COACH. They invent indicators that don't exist, score inconsistently, and produce vague comments that miss the level distinctions Tennessee's frameworks actually require. EvalScribe is built around each framework's actual structure and rating scale — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds it — from capture through final export.
Is EvalScribe available for iOS and macOS?
Yes. Individual evaluators can download EvalScribe from the Apple App Store on both iOS and macOS, with a free trial that includes three evaluations.
Can schools or districts purchase licenses for multiple evaluators?
Yes. School-wide licensing starts at three or more evaluators ($90/user/year), and district-wide licensing is $80/admin/year. When you order, EvalScribe issues a unique access code that you distribute to your evaluators — no separate provisioning required. Email [email protected] to get started.
Which other state 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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