AI-powered teacher evaluations
for Washington educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe supports Washington evaluators who use TPEP, whichever approved framework your district has adopted. You bring your district's framework and your judgment. EvalScribe helps you write it up.
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Organize evidence by the State 8
OSPI-approved, all three supported
Evaluator-controlled ratings
Three evaluations free — no credit card · Individual plans from $100/year · School & district licensing available
Educational leaders on EvalScribe
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 from 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.
Made for Washington evaluators
Works with districts that use TPEP and any of its three approved frameworks.
Privacy-first
Transient processing on Microsoft Azure. Never used for AI training.
Built for workflow
Designed around the realities of being a Washington evaluator.
The Washington State 8. EvalScribe supports evaluators who use TPEP.
Washington evaluates teachers through the Teacher and Principal Evaluation Program (TPEP). Every teacher is evaluated on the eight state criteria — the "State 8" — using one of three OSPI-approved instructional frameworks: Danielson, CEL 5D+, or Marzano. EvalScribe works with Washington evaluators whichever framework their district uses.
The State 8 evaluation criteria
Established in law (WAC 392-191A-060) and shared across all TPEP frameworks, the eight state criteria are the foundation every Washington evaluation is built on. Student growth data support criteria 3, 6, and 8. EvalScribe helps you organize your observation evidence by the criterion it relates to and draft evidence-anchored feedback you can align to your framework's documentation.
The eight state criteria.
High Expectations
Effective Teaching Practices
Individual Learning Needs
Student growthContent & Curriculum
Safe, Positive Environment
Using Student Data
Student growthFamilies & Community
Collaborative Practice
Student growthThree approved frameworks. EvalScribe works with districts that use any of them.
Each district adopts one OSPI-approved instructional framework, which provides the rubric language for the State 8. EvalScribe works with districts that use:
Danielson
Framework for Teaching, from the Danielson Group.
CEL 5D+
UW Center for Educational Leadership, publisher of the 5D+ rubric.
Marzano
The Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model.
The four TPEP ratings.
Unsatisfactory
Basic
Proficient
Distinguished
The four rating labels apply across all three frameworks. What each level means comes from your district's framework documentation. EvalScribe offers suggested draft ratings for your review. You decide every rating.
Comprehensive, focused, and student growth
TPEP uses two evaluation types. A comprehensive evaluation assesses all eight criteria — required annually for provisional teachers and at least once every four years for all classroom teachers. A focused evaluation addresses at least three of the eight criteria in the years between.
Student growth data support criteria 3, 6, and 8, set through the district's process. EvalScribe drafts the observation-based write-up; the growth data and the final summative rating are handled by the district.
How EvalScribe works with TPEP
EvalScribe supports Washington evaluators who use TPEP. It organizes your observation evidence by the State Criteria your district evaluates against, offers suggested draft ratings for your review, and helps you write evidence-anchored feedback you can align to your framework's documentation, so the write-up is traceable back to what you observed and ready to inform the summative evaluation. You bring your district's framework and your judgment. EvalScribe helps you write it up.
Scope of the score. EvalScribe helps with the observation-based write-up. Student growth data (criteria 3, 6, and 8) and the overall summative rating are determined by the district, not the app.
Your district's setup. Questions about how EvalScribe fits your district's framework? Email [email protected].
How EvalScribe works with TPEP.
A five-step path from the back of the classroom to a finished 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.
Organize evidence by criterion
EvalScribe helps you sort each note by the State Criterion it relates to.
Suggested ratings & comments
Get suggested ratings for your review and feedback language you can align to your district's documentation.
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 drafting process as scans and dictation.
Why generic AI falls short for TPEP.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for TPEP documentation, "sounds polished" isn't the bar. Defensible evaluations are.
| Capability | Generic AI (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) | EvalScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Framework awareness | ✕No concept of TPEP, the State 8, or the four-level scale. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Works with Washington evaluators who use TPEP. You apply your district's framework, and EvalScribe helps you write it up. |
| Framework choice | ✕No idea Washington approves three different frameworks that each map to the State 8. | ✓Works with districts that use any of the three approved frameworks: Danielson, CEL 5D+, or Marzano. |
| Criteria vs. growth | ✕Blurs the observation write-up together with the student growth data behind criteria 3, 6, and 8. | ✓Drafts the observation write-up and leaves student growth data and the summative rating to the district. |
| 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 you can align to your district's TPEP framework documentation. |
| 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 criterion it relates to. |
How much Washington 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 TPEP evaluation isn't the same as watching it happen. The demo walks through a real observation, from capture and organizing evidence to suggested ratings and final export.
The draft review screen — every comment, rating, and piece of organized 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
- Works with every state and national framework, including Washington's TPEP frameworks
- 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.
TPEP & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support Washington's TPEP?
Yes. EvalScribe works with Washington evaluators who use TPEP, whichever of the three OSPI-approved frameworks your district has adopted. It organizes your observation evidence by the criterion it relates to, suggests draft ratings for your review, and helps you write feedback you can align to your district's documentation. Washington's four levels are Unsatisfactory, Basic, Proficient, and Distinguished, and the ratings are yours.
What is the "State 8"?
The State 8 are the eight evaluation criteria in Washington law (WAC 392-191A-060) that every teacher is evaluated on. All three TPEP frameworks map to them. They span high expectations, effective practices, individual learning needs, content focus, learning environment, using student data, family communication, and collaborative practice. EvalScribe lets you organize your evidence by all eight.
Does EvalScribe work with Danielson, CEL 5D+, and Marzano?
Whichever your district uses. EvalScribe works with districts that use any of the three approved frameworks, and you apply your district's framework documentation. Questions about your district's setup? Email [email protected].
What is the difference between comprehensive and focused evaluation?
A comprehensive evaluation assesses all eight criteria — required annually for provisional teachers and at least once every four years for all classroom teachers. A focused evaluation, used in the years between, addresses at least three of the eight criteria. EvalScribe drafts the observation write-up for either type.
Does EvalScribe handle student growth and the summative rating?
No. Student growth data support criteria 3, 6, and 8, and are set through the district's process. The overall summative rating combines the criteria with that growth data. EvalScribe drafts the observation-based write-up; the growth data and the final rating are handled by the district, outside the app.
Does EvalScribe replace evaluator judgment?
No. EvalScribe drafts evidence-organized 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 organized 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?
General-purpose AI tools aren't designed around how teacher evaluations are written. They can ignore the State 8, overlook that Washington approves three frameworks, and produce vague comments. EvalScribe is built for evaluation write-ups and the evaluator workflow around them, from capture through final export.
Where can I read the official TPEP sources?
OSPI publishes the State 8 criteria and the three approved frameworks on its Frameworks and Rubrics page. The criteria are set in WAC 392-191A-060.
Which other frameworks are supported?
EvalScribe supports evaluators in all 50 states and Washington D.C., including districts that use widely adopted 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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