AI-powered T-TESS evaluations
for Texas appraisers.
Cut T-TESS documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around the Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System — turning observation notes into dimension-aligned evaluations with suggested ratings from Improvement Needed through Distinguished.
Saved per evaluation
Dimensions covered
To capture notes
Appraiser-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.
T-TESS-specific
Framework-aware drafting tuned to Texas's four domains and sixteen dimensions.
Privacy-first
Transient processing on Microsoft Azure. Never used for AI training.
Built for workflow
Designed around the realities of being a Texas appraiser.
What is the Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System?
Developed by the Texas Education Agency, T-TESS organizes effective teaching into four observable domains and sixteen dimensions, each rated against a five-level performance rubric. Each domain focuses on both teachers and students rather than separating them — capturing the constant feedback loop that defines the framework. EvalScribe is built around it.
Beyond formal observations, you conduct walkthroughs, gather strategically-scripted evidence against every applicable dimension, score performance, run pre- and post-observation conferences, and produce a defensible record for every teacher every year. The mechanics eat the time you wanted to spend in classrooms — messy handwriting that needs to be rewritten, scattered evidence that needs to map to the right one of sixteen dimensions, feedback that needs to read consistently across an entire faculty.
Four domains. Sixteen dimensions.
Planning
What happens before students arrive.
- 1.1Standards and Alignment
- 1.2Data and Assessment
- 1.3Knowledge of Students
- 1.4Activities
Instruction
Teaching in action.
- 2.1Achieving Expectations
- 2.2Content Knowledge and Expertise
- 2.3Communication
- 2.4Differentiation
- 2.5Monitor and Adjust
Learning Environment
The conditions for learning.
- 3.1Classroom Environment, Routines, and Procedures
- 3.2Managing Student Behavior
- 3.3Classroom Culture
Professional Practices and Responsibilities
Practice beyond the classroom.
- 4.1Professional Demeanor and Ethics
- 4.2Goal Setting
- 4.3Professional Development
- 4.4School Community Involvement
The five-level rubric
Improvement Needed
Developing
Proficient
Accomplished
Distinguished
How EvalScribe works with T-TESS.
A five-step path from the back of the classroom to a finished, T-TESS-aligned evaluation.
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 dimensions
EvalScribe identifies which of the sixteen T-TESS dimensions each note supports.
Suggested ratings & comments
Get draft performance-level ratings from Improvement Needed through Distinguished and professional feedback language for every applicable dimension.
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 T-TESS-aware drafting pipeline as scans and dictation.
Why generic AI falls short for T-TESS.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for T-TESS documentation, "sounds polished" isn't the bar. Defensible, framework-aligned evaluations are.
| Capability | Generic AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) | EvalScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Dimension mapping | ✕Hallucinates dimension numbers and invents rubric language that doesn't exist in T-TESS. | ✓Maps evidence to the sixteen T-TESS dimensions using the actual rubric loaded into the app. |
| Rubric scoring | ✕Inconsistent ratings between teachers — and between sessions on the same teacher. | ✓Suggests five-level performance ratings based on the evidence captured, with the reasoning visible to you. |
| Level distinctions | ✕Defaults to generic "good/great" framing that doesn't capture the Accomplished-vs-Distinguished distinction T-TESS actually requires. | ✓Rubric-aware scoring that meaningfully distinguishes between adjacent performance levels. |
| 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 T-TESS framework. |
| Appraiser workflow | ✕No concept of walkthroughs, formal observations, or pre/post conferences. | ✓Built around the actual appraiser 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 dimension it supports. |
How much T-TESS documentation 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 T-TESS 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 appraiser on their own device.
Billed annually per user
- Unlimited evaluations
- All supported frameworks, including T-TESS
- iOS & macOS access
- 3 free evaluations to start
School-wide
For a school with multiple appraisers.
3+ appraisers
- Everything in Individual
- 10% volume discount
- Unique access code issued to your school
- Easy distribution to your appraisers
District-wide
For districts deploying across every appraiser.
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 appraisers.
T-TESS & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe replace appraiser judgment?
No. EvalScribe drafts evidence-mapped T-TESS evaluations and suggested performance-level ratings from Improvement Needed through Distinguished. The appraiser reviews, edits, and finalizes every document. The professional judgment is always yours — EvalScribe just removes the typing.
Is EvalScribe specifically built for the Texas T-TESS framework?
Yes. When you select Texas – T-TESS in the app, EvalScribe loads all four domains and sixteen dimensions and uses them — not a generic teaching rubric — to map your observation evidence and suggest performance levels across the five-level rubric.
Does EvalScribe support the Alternate Domain I rubric?
EvalScribe currently supports the standard T-TESS rubric across all four domains and sixteen dimensions. Support for the Alternate Domain I rubric — for districts that have adopted lesson internalization aligned with HQIM — is on the development roadmap and coming in a future update.
Can the generated T-TESS 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 T-TESS. They invent dimensions that don't exist, score inconsistently, and produce vague comments that miss the Accomplished-vs-Distinguished distinction T-TESS actually requires. EvalScribe is built around the T-TESS rubric itself and the appraiser workflow that surrounds it — from capture through final export.
Is EvalScribe available for iOS and macOS?
Yes. Individual appraisers 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 appraisers?
Yes. School-wide licensing starts at three or more appraisers ($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 appraisers — 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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Spend less time on paperwork.
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EvalScribe was built to help Texas appraisers spend less time documenting evaluations and more time doing what matters: leading instruction, coaching teachers, and walking buildings.
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