AI-powered teacher evaluations
for Vermont educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around Vermont's Core Teaching Standards natively — the InTASC-based framework, all ten standards across four categories — and adapts to your supervisory union's own rating scale.
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Vermont Core Teaching Standards
The InTASC framework, built in
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.
Vermont-specific
All ten InTASC-based Core Teaching Standards, 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 Vermont evaluator.
Vermont's Core Teaching Standards. EvalScribe is built around all ten.
Vermont's Core Teaching Standards, adopted by the VSBPE in 2011, are the InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards — ten standards in four categories. Vermont's teacher evaluation is locally run: each supervisory union or district builds its own system, aligned to State Board guidelines. EvalScribe is built around all ten standards, in their own language.
The Core Teaching Standards (InTASC)
The ten standards describe what every Vermont educator should know and be able to do, grouped into four categories: The Learner and Learning, Content, Instructional Practice, and Professional Responsibility. They are the shared basis every supervisory union's evaluation system builds on. EvalScribe maps your observation evidence to the standard it supports and drafts a rating and evidence-anchored feedback in the standards' own language.
Four categories. Ten standards.
The Learner and Learning
3 standards- 1 Learner Development
- 2 Learning Differences
- 3 Learning Environments
Content
2 standards- 4 Content Knowledge
- 5 Application of Content
Instructional Practice
3 standards- 6 Assessment
- 7 Planning for Instruction
- 8 Instructional Strategies
Professional Responsibility
2 standards- 9 Professional Learning and Ethical Practice
- 10 Leadership and Collaboration
EvalScribe's default rating scale.
Ineffective
Developing
Effective
The professional standardHighly Effective
The Core Teaching Standards are not accompanied by a state rubric, and Vermont mandates no statewide rating scale. EvalScribe defaults to this four-level scale and adapts to your supervisory union's own labels; just let us know what they are.
Local control in Vermont
Vermont is a strong local-control state. Under the Education Quality Standards (State Board Rule 2000, with staff evaluation addressed in Rule 2121.4), each supervisory union or district designs its own supervision and evaluation system, aligned to State Board guidelines. There is no single statewide observation count, rubric, or rating scale.
The Agency of Education reviews district evaluation systems for alignment — against a review rubric based on the Vermont Guidelines for Teacher & Leader Effectiveness — rather than evaluating individual teachers. EvalScribe drafts the standards-aligned observation write-up; your supervisory union's rating labels and final determination stay local.
How EvalScribe handles the Core Teaching Standards
All ten standards across the four categories 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 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 Core Teaching Standards your supervisory union's system is built on.
Scope of the score. EvalScribe drafts the observation-based, standards-aligned write-up. Your supervisory union's rating labels, observation cadence, and final determination are set locally under the Education Quality Standards, not by the app — and EvalScribe adapts to your scale.
Current with Vermont's standards. EvalScribe uses Vermont's InTASC-based Core Teaching Standards as adopted by the VSBPE. If your supervisory union uses its own rating labels or local guidance and you'd like to see it reflected, email [email protected].
How EvalScribe works with the Core Teaching Standards.
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 Core Teaching Standard each note supports, across all four categories.
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 Core Teaching Standards.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for Core Teaching Standards 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 Core Teaching Standards, InTASC's ten standards, or the four categories. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Built around Vermont's actual InTASC-based Core Teaching Standards and their language. |
| Standard mapping | ✕Invents standard labels that don't match the Core Teaching Standards. | ✓Maps evidence to the real ten standards (1-10) using the actual standards loaded into the app. |
| Local rating scales | ✕Assumes a fixed statewide scale, unaware Vermont mandates none and each supervisory union sets its own. | ✓Defaults to a clear four-level scale and adapts to your supervisory union's own labels. |
| Standards vs. system | ✕Confuses the state standards with a state evaluation rubric Vermont doesn't publish. | ✓Drafts the standards-aligned write-up and leaves the local system and final rating to your supervisory union. |
| Professional Responsibility depth | ✕Collapses the ethics, learning, leadership, and collaboration standards into vague generalities. | ✓Handles Standards 9 and 10 individually, from ethical practice to collaboration. |
| 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 Core Teaching Standards. |
| 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 Vermont 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 Core Teaching Standards 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 supervisory union 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 Core Teaching Standards
- 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
Union-wide
For supervisory unions deploying across every evaluator.
Best value for full deployments
- Everything in School-wide
- 20% volume discount
- Single access code for the entire supervisory union
- Direct support contact for rollout
All pricing shown is introductory and may change. For school and supervisory-union plans, EvalScribe issues a unique access code that the buyer distributes to their evaluators.
The Core Teaching Standards & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support Vermont's Core Teaching Standards?
Yes. EvalScribe is built around all ten of Vermont's InTASC-based Core Teaching Standards, grouped into the four categories — The Learner and Learning, Content, Instructional Practice, and Professional Responsibility — with the standards' own language. It maps your observation evidence to the standard it supports and drafts a rating and feedback, adapting to your supervisory union's rating scale.
Does Vermont have a statewide teacher evaluation rubric?
No. Vermont is a strong local-control state. The Core Teaching Standards are not accompanied by a state rubric, and Vermont mandates no statewide observation count, rubric, or rating scale. Under the Education Quality Standards, each supervisory union or district designs its own evaluation system. EvalScribe defaults to a clear four-level scale and adapts to whatever your supervisory union uses.
What are Vermont's Core Teaching Standards?
They are the InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards, adopted by the VSBPE in 2011 — ten standards grouped into four categories. They describe what every Vermont educator should know and be able to do, from learner development and content knowledge to assessment, planning, ethical practice, and collaboration. EvalScribe covers all ten.
What does the state's evaluation review actually do?
The Agency of Education reviews supervisory unions' and districts' evaluation systems for alignment — against a review rubric based on the Vermont Guidelines for Teacher & Leader Effectiveness — rather than evaluating individual teachers. The individual ratings themselves are produced locally through each supervisory union's own system.
Can EvalScribe match my supervisory union's rating labels?
Yes. Because Vermont sets no statewide scale, EvalScribe defaults to a four-level scale (Ineffective, Developing, Effective, Highly Effective) and adapts to your supervisory union's labels. Tell us what your union 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 Core Teaching Standards. They invent standards, assume a statewide rubric Vermont doesn't publish, and produce vague comments that miss the distinctions the standards require. EvalScribe is built around Vermont's actual InTASC-based Core Teaching Standards — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds it — from capture through final export, adapting to your supervisory union's own scale.
Where can I read the official Core Teaching Standards sources?
The Vermont Agency of Education publishes the Core Teaching Standards and the Guidelines for Teacher & Leader Effectiveness on its Teacher & Leader Effectiveness page. The standards are the InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards adopted by the VSBPE in 2011, and local evaluation is governed by the Education Quality Standards (State Board Rule 2000).
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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