AI-powered teacher evaluations
for Utah educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around the Utah Effective Teaching Standards (UETS) natively — all five standards and twenty elements — and adapts to your district's own rating scale.
Saved per evaluation
UETS, built in
Across all five standards
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.
Utah-specific
All five UETS standards and twenty elements, 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 Utah evaluator.
The Utah Effective Teaching Standards. EvalScribe is built around all five.
The Utah Effective Teaching Standards (UETS) are the state's teaching standards, adopted by the USBE. Utah's teacher evaluation is locally run — each district builds its own system, aligned to the UETS. EvalScribe is built around all five standards and their elements, in the standards' own language.
The Utah Effective Teaching Standards (UETS)
The UETS describe effective practice across five standards and twenty elements, aligned to the InTASC national standards. They are the shared basis every Utah district's evaluation system builds on. EvalScribe maps your observation evidence to the standard and element it supports and drafts a rating and evidence-anchored feedback in the standards' own language.
Five standards. Twenty elements.
Learners and Learning
4 elements- 1.1 Personalizing Learning
- 1.2 Building Relationships
- 1.3 Respecting Learner Backgrounds and Perspectives
- 1.4 Fostering Student Self-Awareness
Instructional Design Clarity
4 elements- 2.1 Content
- 2.2 Learning Progression
- 2.3 Instructional Planning
- 2.4 Engagement
Instructional Practice
4 elements- 3.1 Instructional Strategies
- 3.2 Assessment Practices
- 3.3 Relevance
- 3.4 Innovation and Technology
Classroom Climate
4 elements- 4.1 Respectful Learning Environment
- 4.2 Classroom Safety
- 4.3 Classroom Organization
- 4.4 Growth-Oriented Classroom Climate
Professional Responsibility
4 elements- 5.1 Adherence to Laws, Rules, and Policies
- 5.2 Continuous Professional Learning
- 5.3 Communication
- 5.4 Professional and Ethical Conduct
EvalScribe's default rating scale.
Below Standard
Developing
Effective
The professional standardExemplary
Utah does not mandate a statewide rating scale — labels are set by each district. EvalScribe defaults to this four-level scale and adapts to your district's own labels; just let us know what they are.
Local control and student growth
Under Utah rule (R277-323, effective for 2024-2025), each district runs its own educator evaluation system, aligned to the UETS, and updates it within two years of any revision to the standards. The specific instrument, cadence, and rating labels are local decisions.
Academic growth is measured through formative assessment identified by the LEA, school, or educator. EvalScribe drafts the UETS-aligned observation write-up; the growth measure and the district's final rating are handled outside the app.
How EvalScribe handles the UETS
All five standards and all twenty elements are built into the tool, each with the standards' own language and the distinctions that separate stronger and weaker practice. EvalScribe maps the evidence from your observation notes to the standard and element it supports and drafts best-fit ratings and evidence-anchored feedback — so the write-up is defensible, traceable back to what you observed, and aligned to the UETS your district's system is built on.
Scope of the score. EvalScribe drafts the observation-based, UETS-aligned write-up. Your district's rating labels, cadence, academic-growth measure, and final determination are set locally under R277-323, not by the app — and EvalScribe adapts to your district's scale.
Current with Utah's standards. EvalScribe uses the UETS as adopted by the USBE. If your district uses its own rating labels or local guidance and you'd like to see it reflected, email [email protected].
How EvalScribe works with the UETS.
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 UETS standard and element each note supports, across all five standards.
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 UETS.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for UETS 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 UETS, its five standards, or its twenty elements. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Built around the UETS's actual five standards, element language, and structure. |
| Standard mapping | ✕Invents standard and element labels that don't match the UETS. | ✓Maps evidence to the real UETS standards and elements (1.1-5.4) using the actual standards loaded into the app. |
| Local rating scales | ✕Assumes a fixed statewide scale, unaware Utah lets each district set its own labels. | ✓Defaults to a clear four-level scale and adapts to your district's own rating labels. |
| Standards vs. growth | ✕Blurs the observation write-up together with academic-growth data. | ✓Drafts the UETS-aligned write-up and leaves the local growth measure and final rating to the district. |
| Professional Responsibility depth | ✕Collapses the fifth standard's law, learning, communication, and ethics elements into vague generalities. | ✓Handles each Professional Responsibility element 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 UETS. |
| 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 Utah 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 UETS 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 UETS
- 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 UETS & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support the UETS?
Yes. EvalScribe is built around all five Utah Effective Teaching Standards — Learners and Learning, Instructional Design Clarity, Instructional Practice, Classroom Climate, and Professional Responsibility — and all twenty elements, with the standards' own language. It maps your observation evidence to the standard and element it supports and drafts a rating and feedback, adapting to your district's rating scale.
Does Utah have a statewide teacher rating scale?
No. Utah's teacher evaluation is locally run. Under R277-323, each district builds its own educator evaluation system aligned to the UETS, and sets its own rating labels, cadence, and academic-growth measure. There is no state-mandated rating scale. EvalScribe defaults to a clear four-level scale and adapts to whatever labels your district uses.
What are the five UETS standards?
Standard 1, Learners and Learning; Standard 2, Instructional Design Clarity; Standard 3, Instructional Practice; Standard 4, Classroom Climate; and Standard 5, Professional Responsibility. Each has four elements, for twenty in all. The standards are aligned to the InTASC national standards, and EvalScribe covers every one.
Does EvalScribe handle the academic-growth measure?
No. In Utah, academic growth is measured through formative assessment identified by the LEA, school, or educator — a local decision set through the district's process. EvalScribe drafts the UETS-aligned observation write-up; the growth measure and the district's final rating are handled outside the app.
Can EvalScribe match my district's own rating labels?
Yes. Because Utah districts set their own scales, EvalScribe defaults to a four-level scale (Below Standard, Developing, Effective, Exemplary) and adapts to your district's labels. Tell us what your district uses at [email protected] and we'll reflect it.
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 UETS. They invent standards and elements, assume a statewide rating scale Utah doesn't mandate, and produce vague comments that miss the distinctions the standards require. EvalScribe is built around the UETS's actual five standards and twenty elements — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds it — from capture through final export, adapting to your district's own scale.
Where can I read the official UETS sources?
The Utah State Board of Education publishes the Utah Effective Teaching Standards and the UETS Field Guide through its educator development resources. The rule governing local educator evaluation is R277-323, effective for the 2024-2025 school year.
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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