AI-powered teacher evaluations
for D.C. educators.
Cut evaluation documentation from hours to minutes. EvalScribe is built around OSSE's DC Model Teacher Evaluation System rubric natively — all four domains, all twenty-three components, and the Ineffective to Highly Effective scale, in the rubric's own language.
Saved per evaluation
All 4 domains, built in
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.
D.C.-specific
All 4 DC Model Rubric domains and 23 components, 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 D.C. evaluator.
The DC Model Teacher Evaluation Rubric. EvalScribe is built around all four domains.
Published by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE), the DC Model Teacher Evaluation System (MTES) is a comprehensive observation framework and rubric that D.C. local education agencies (LEAs) may adopt to assess teacher performance. It organizes practice into four domains and twenty-three components, scored on a four-level scale from Ineffective to Highly Effective. EvalScribe is built around the DC Model Rubric's own structure and language.
DC Model Teacher Evaluation System (MTES)
Launched in November 2014 as a collaborative project between OSSE, Thurgood Marshall Academy PCS, and thirteen other LEAs, the DC Model Rubric spans the learning environment, instructional delivery, planning and preparation, and professional foundations. Its twenty-three components are each described across four levels, with Effective representing solid, expected professional practice with a positive impact on student learning — the professional standard the rubric is built around.
Four domains. Twenty-three components.
Learning Environment
3 components- 1.1 Positive Relationships & Respect
- 1.2 Procedures & Routines
- 1.3 Physical Environment
Delivery of Instruction
6 components- 2.1 Culture of Learning · 2.2 Student Engagement
- 2.3 Questioning Techniques · 2.4 Execution of Lesson
- 2.5 Content Knowledge · 2.6 Use of Assessments
Planning and Preparation
5 components- 3.1 Knowledge of Content & Pedagogy
- 3.2 Knowledge of Students
- 3.3 Long-Term Instructional Planning
- 3.4 Daily Instructional Planning
- 3.5 Student Assessment
Professional Foundations
9 components- 4.1 Department/Grade Level Contributions
- 4.2 Lesson Plans
- 4.3 Professional Feedback
- 4.4 School Contributions
- 4.5 Professional Development & Growth
- 4.6 Family Contact & Communication
- 4.7 Record Keeping
- 4.8 Professionalism
- 4.9 Attendance
The four-level DC Model Rubric scale.
Ineffective
Minimally Effective
Effective
Professional standardHighly Effective
Models for peersHow EvalScribe handles the DC Model Rubric
All four domains and all twenty-three components are built into the tool, each with the DC Model Rubric's own language across the four levels and the look-fors and distinctions that separate adjacent ratings. EvalScribe maps your evidence to the relevant components and drafts best-fit ratings and feedback in the rubric's voice — treating Effective as the genuine professional standard it's designed to be, and reserving Highly Effective for practice with evidence of leadership initiative and modeling for colleagues.
Honest scope on D.C.'s evaluation landscape: Washington D.C. is not a state, and there is no single evaluation instrument used district-wide. The DC Model Teacher Evaluation System is a voluntary framework published by OSSE that LEAs may adopt — it is used by a number of D.C.'s independent public charter LEAs, each of which sets its own evaluation policy. DC Public Schools (DCPS), the traditional public school system, uses its own separate evaluation system called IMPACT, with different domains and components than the DC Model Rubric; IMPACT is the only DC evaluation system OSSE currently accepts for educator credential renewal purposes. EvalScribe is built around the DC Model Teacher Evaluation System today; native IMPACT support is on our roadmap for a future update. If your LEA uses IMPACT or another locally selected instrument, email [email protected] — hearing from you helps us prioritize.
How EvalScribe works with the DC Model Rubric.
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 components
EvalScribe identifies which of the 23 DC Model Rubric components each note supports, across all four domains.
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 DC Model Rubric.
Pasting your walkthrough notes into a general-purpose chatbot might produce a paragraph that sounds polished — but for DC Model Rubric 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 DC Model Rubric, its 23 components, or its four-level scale. Treats every prompt the same. | ✓Built around the DC Model Rubric's actual structure, component language, and four-level scale. |
| Component mapping | ✕Hallucinates domain and component labels and invents rubric language that doesn't exist in the DC Model Rubric. | ✓Maps evidence to the real 23 DC Model Rubric components using the actual rubric loaded into the app. |
| MTES vs. IMPACT | ✕No idea D.C. has two entirely different evaluation instruments in use across its LEAs. | ✓Built around the DC Model Rubric today, with the IMPACT distinction named up front — native IMPACT support is on our roadmap. |
| The Effective standard | ✕Treats the scale as generic good-to-bad, missing that Effective — not Highly Effective — is the professional standard. | ✓Drafts to the real DC Model Rubric bar — Effective is solid, expected practice; Highly Effective requires leadership evidence. |
| Professional Foundations depth | ✕Collapses D.C.'s nine-component professionalism domain into vague generalities. | ✓Handles all nine Professional Foundations components — from record keeping to attendance — 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 DC Model Rubric. |
| 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 D.C. 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 DC Model Rubric 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 LEA 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.
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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 DC Model Rubric
- 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
LEA-wide
For LEAs deploying across every evaluator.
Best value for full deployments
- Everything in School-wide
- 20% volume discount
- Single access code for the entire LEA
- Direct support contact for rollout
All pricing shown is introductory and may change. For school and LEA plans, EvalScribe issues a unique access code that the buyer distributes to their evaluators.
The DC Model Rubric & EvalScribe — common questions.
Does EvalScribe support the full DC Model Teacher Evaluation Rubric?
Yes — all four domains and all twenty-three components are built in natively, each with the rubric's own language across the four levels, the look-fors, and the distinctions that separate adjacent ratings. EvalScribe maps your evidence to the right components and drafts ratings and comments in the rubric's voice.
Is the DC Model Rubric used district-wide in Washington D.C.?
No. D.C. is not a state, and there is no single evaluation instrument used across every school. The DC Model Teacher Evaluation System is a voluntary framework published by OSSE that local education agencies (LEAs) may adopt — it's used by a number of D.C.'s independent public charter LEAs. DC Public Schools (DCPS) uses its own separate system called IMPACT, with different domains and components. EvalScribe is built around the DC Model Rubric; if your LEA uses IMPACT or a different locally selected instrument, email [email protected].
What's the difference between the DC Model Rubric and DCPS's IMPACT?
They're two different instruments that happen to share similar rating-level names. IMPACT is DCPS's own evaluation system, first enacted in 2009, used only within DC Public Schools and incorporating multiple measures including value-added data for some teachers. The DC Model Rubric was built later (2014) by OSSE together with charter LEAs as a separate, voluntary framework with its own four domains and twenty-three components. EvalScribe's DC framework today is the DC Model Rubric, not IMPACT — native IMPACT support is on our roadmap for a future update.
What does Effective mean if it's not the top rating?
Effective is the DC Model Rubric's professional standard — solid, expected professional practice with a positive impact on student learning. Highly Effective sits above it and requires evidence of exceptional performance along with leadership initiative and willingness to model or mentor for colleagues. A rating of Effective reflects real, consistent proficiency; it isn't a middling score.
Does EvalScribe support DCPS's IMPACT system?
Not yet — native IMPACT support is on our roadmap for a future update. EvalScribe's D.C. framework today is the DC Model Teacher Evaluation System used by many charter LEAs. If IMPACT support would be useful for your school, let us know at [email protected] — hearing from you helps us prioritize.
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 DC Model Rubric. They invent components that don't exist, conflate it with IMPACT, hand out Highly Effective freely, and produce vague comments that miss the level distinctions the rubric requires. EvalScribe is built around the DC Model Rubric's actual structure and scale — and the evaluator workflow that surrounds it — from capture through final export.
Where can I read the official DC Model Rubric sources?
OSSE publishes the framework, rubric, and related resources on its DC Model Teacher Evaluation System Resources page. DCPS's separate IMPACT system is documented at dcps.dc.gov.
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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