Early stage · Seeking partners
Teachers show up every day and do extraordinary work. And then it vanishes — unseen, unrecorded, unrecognized.
EZ Evals is changing that. We built a tool that captures what teachers actually do — and gives it back to them as something they’re proud of.
Not for administrators. Not for compliance. For the teacher who deserves to see that their work mattered.
Talk to us →The problem
Evaluation systems were built for accountability. Not for teachers.
Danielson. Marzano. T-TESS. These frameworks were designed to measure compliance — not to recognize the depth, creativity, and care that teachers bring every single day. A single observation becomes the record of a career. Teachers lose ownership of their professional narrative. And the system moves on.
“I know I’m doing good work. I just have no way to show it — to anyone.”
— A sentiment shared by teachers everywhere
The product
A highlight reel built from their own evidence — owned by the teacher.
Teachers upload artifacts from their normal teaching life. EZ Evals uses AI to recognize instructional practices aligned to their district’s framework. The teacher reviews, accepts, and builds their own narrative. The result is a professional highlight reel that belongs to them — not to the system.
Step 01
Upload artifacts
Lesson plans, assessments, reflections, photos — things already created, not created for evaluation.
Step 02
AI surfaces indicators
The system maps uploads to their district’s framework and offers evidence highlights for review — advisory only, never automated.
Step 03
Teacher owns the narrative
Accept AI suggestions, override them, or write your own. The highlight reel is built from your choices, in your voice.
What’s already built
A functioning MVP — not just a concept.
EZ Evals exists today as a working Next.js application designed with intentional constraints around data ownership and human decision-making. A pilot school is confirmed and ready.
Teacher-owned artifact uploads with structured metadata
AI-generated framework alignment suggestions — advisory only, with confidence indicators attached to each
Explicit teacher decisions captured as first-class data: accept, override, or ignore
Clear separation between individual teacher views and schoolwide aggregation
Cloud-native architecture on AWS — S3, Lambda, Bedrock, DynamoDB — built for privacy and scale
Our principles
Responsible AI by design. Not surveillance — recognition.
No automated judgments
AI suggestions are never decisions. Teachers stay in control at every step.
No scoring or ranking
EZ Evals generates no evaluative labels. It surfaces patterns, not verdicts.
Teacher-owned data
All instructional evidence remains the teacher’s. Schools see only aggregated, non-identifiable insights.
Human in the loop
Every AI output requires an explicit teacher decision before it becomes part of their record.
The opportunity
An $18B professional development market with a recognition gap at its center.
There are 3.8 million public school teachers in the United States. Districts spend an average of $18,000 per teacher annually on professional development. Yet teacher satisfaction and retention remain in crisis — because money alone doesn’t make teachers feel seen.
3.8M
Public school teachers in the US
Pew Research Center, 2024
44%
Of K-12 teachers report feeling burned out often or always
Gallup / RAND, 2024
$18B
Spent annually on teacher professional development
NCTQ / Education Next
Founder
Built by an educator, for educators.
Erin Fitzgerald
Founder, EZ Evals
I spent over two decades as an educator — teaching, coaching, and suffering in an evaluation system that was never designed to see teachers clearly.
I watched brilliant educators shrink under the weight of checkboxes that couldn’t capture what they actually did. I felt it myself. And I couldn’t stop thinking: what if we built something that worked for teachers instead of on them?
EZ Evals is that thing. It’s not an evaluation tool. It’s a mirror — one that reflects the real work teachers do every day, in their voice, owned by them entirely.
This is personal on every level. That’s why it has to work.
Get in touch
We’re looking for partners who believe teachers deserve better.
If you’re an investor, district leader, or builder who wants to be part of this — we’d like to hear from you.
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