Teacher evaluations that actually improve teaching.
Transform classroom observations from compliance checklists into meaningful professional development. Elevate, by Tandem Education, gives administrators the tools to provide evidence-based feedback that helps every teacher grow.
Evaluation is broken.
You already know this.
Administrators spend 2-4 hours per evaluation. With 30-50 teachers needing 3-6 observations each year, the math becomes impossible. Something has to give.
Usually, it's the quality of feedback.
Instead of growth-focused conversations, evaluations become compliance exercises. 98.7% of teachers are rated “proficient” even when student outcomes tell a different story. Teachers perceive observations as punitive hoops rather than opportunities to improve.
And now, administrators are turning to ChatGPT and other consumer AI tools to keep up — copying observation notes into systems with no FERPA compliance, no audit trails, and no guarantee your data isn't training someone else's AI model.
It doesn't have to be this way.
Elevate: Your co-pilot for meaningful evaluations.
Elevate is an AI-supported observation platform that handles the time-consuming parts of evaluation — transcription, rubric alignment, and report drafting — so you can focus on what matters: helping teachers grow.
The AI assists. You evaluate and decide. Every evaluation remains grounded in your professional judgment and the evidence you observe.
Focus on the classroom, not the clipboard.
Like a physician's transcription service, Elevate captures everything being said so you can focus on the classroom — not on note-taking. Evaluations that used to take 2-4 hours now take under 30 minutes.
With 30-50 teachers needing 3-6 observations each year, the math finally works.
Evidence observed
“Students worked in pairs to solve the equation...”
Suggested rubric alignment
Component 3c: Engaging Students in Learning
Evidence-based feedback, every time.
AI-assisted rubric alignment helps you deliver consistent, evidence-based feedback — even in content areas outside your expertise. And sometimes, the AI surfaces an insight you hadn't considered, giving you a new angle for the growth conversation.
The kind of feedback teachers actually want.
Elevate suggests reflective questions grounded in invitational inquiry — like “How might you structure the modeling portion so students contribute rather than passively copy?” The kind of prompts that spark real growth conversations.
The AI assists. You evaluate and decide. Every evaluation remains grounded in your professional judgment and the evidence you observe.
Reflective question
“How might you restructure the group work so that each student has an accountable role in the discussion?”
“Teachers don't just tolerate evaluation. They want it to be meaningful.”
— Sarah, Tandem Education co-founder & 22-year educator
Privacy isn't an afterthought. It's the foundation.
Elevate doesn't record. It transcribes. There is no audio or video recording — classroom audio is converted to text in real-time and immediately discarded. Student names are automatically scrubbed from every transcript. Your district's data is never used to train external AI models. We built this platform knowing it would be used in real classrooms with real students — and we take that responsibility seriously.
No audio recording
Transcription only — audio is immediately discarded
FERPA compliant
Automatic student name scrubbing from every transcript
Your data stays yours
No third-party AI training with your district’s data
Built by people who've lived this problem.
Tandem Education was founded by a principal who's conducted hundreds of teacher evaluations, an instructional coach who's helped teachers turn feedback into real growth, and a technology leader with 20+ years of EdTech experience. We didn't study the evaluation problem from the outside — we've sat in those classrooms, written those reports, and had those difficult conversations.
We built Elevate because we believe every teacher deserves feedback that helps them grow. And every administrator deserves tools that make that feedback possible.
Ready to transform teacher evaluation?
See how Elevate can give you back hours every week while improving the quality of feedback your teachers receive.