For Teachers
Feedback specific enough to act on. The same standard in every classroom.
Elevate is an AI-supported tool your administrators use during classroom observations. Your evaluation framework and the process in your contract stay exactly as they are. What changes is how much of your teaching survives the trip from your classroom to the write-up.
What changes for you
There is only so much an administrator can write down while also watching your class. Elevate captures specific moments alongside them, so the detail that made the lesson work is still there when you sit down to talk.
Your feedback is tied to the evaluation framework your district already adopted, and every conversation starts from the same rubric. What you are measured against does not change based on who walked in.
Elevate drafts questions and possible next steps grounded in what actually happened in the lesson. Your evaluator decides which of them to raise with you or include in your report.
What specific feedback looks like
Here is the same twenty minutes of a lesson, written two ways.
Written from memory
“Students were engaged and on task. Consider incorporating more opportunities for student discourse.”
Written from evidence
“Fourteen minutes in, you stopped the note-taking and asked students to argue the opposite position. Six students who had not spoken all period came into the discussion. The same move during the opening review might reach the group that stayed quiet there.”
Those specific moments give you and your evaluator a shared starting point for the conversation that follows.
Evidence, not recollection
Even careful evaluators can come away remembering different parts of the same lesson.
When the evidence is on the page, the conversation starts from what happened rather than from what stuck. Your evaluator still makes every judgment about your teaching. They just make it with the specifics in front of them, against the same rubric being used in the classroom next door.
That counts for more in a difficult year, or under an administrator who is new to your building.
Coaching that asks instead of tells
That same evidence is what Elevate uses to draft questions your evaluator can bring to the conversation. Each one names a specific moment from your lesson and asks about it openly, without presuming a single right answer.
A drafted question
“What are some ways you might build on the discussion you started after the opener?”
The plural matters. “Some ways” assumes there is more than one good answer and that you are the person best placed to find it. Elevate drafts two or three of these alongside a short list of possible moves for the lesson, and your evaluator decides which to raise with you or include in your report.
Specific feedback is useful at every stage
Strong teaching deserves more than a generic summary. When the write-up names what actually worked, you end up with a record of your practice rather than a verdict on it.
That is worth having in year one and in year thirty. If you want to work on something, you have detail worth working from. If you want to know what landed, that is visible too.
Straight answers
Want to see the evidence behind your feedback?
Ask your evaluator to walk you through the moments behind the write-up at your post-observation conference, and how they connect to your district's framework.
Curious how the whole thing works? See how Elevate works.