Teacher and Principal Evaluation Project (TPEP) 

Please contact Molly Naff for additional trainings and support offered through NCESD.

eVAL is a web-based tool designed to manage the evaluation process and documentation. Developed in partnership with the Washington Education Association, the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Educational Service District 113, eVAL is:

• a free resource created with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (link is external);
• personalized for each district for their instructional framework, resources, and documents;
• available and voluntary for all Washington K-12 public school districts, who can use as many or as few of eVAL’s features as they’d like (or non at all); and
• extremely secure with limited access physically and virtually to its servers.

The system is an EDS application and hosted in a state of the art network operations center. The site is physically secured, monitored 24 hours a day, and backed up continuously.

eVAL is 2.0 is a web-based tool, designed to manage the evaluation process and documentation of professional growth.

• More than 10,000 Washington educators have used eVAL. Their feedback has led to important updates.
• eVAL 2.0 is more intuitive, safe & secure, and more closely aligned to authentic feedback practices.
• A free resource used by more than 120 districts in Washington State.
• Personalized for each district for their instructional framework, resources, and documents.

eVAL Features

eVAL brings Principals and Teachers together for discussions and meaningful professional growth that lead to changed instructional practice in the classroom.

The primary features of eVAL are:

• Self-assessments
• Goal-setting
• Conducting and participating in observations
• Managing artifacts and evidence
• Managing summary data and reports

Other features of eVAL:

Ninety-three videos for exploring your instructional framework in the context of classroom instruction.

Protocols for exploring and analyzing classroom practice.

• Watch this online video to see how these protocols support the review, study and analysis of the online videos
• Watch this online video to see how these protocols can be used to view, study and analyze video vignettes of classroom lessons in a personal video session in eVAL

Ready to see eVAL in action? Play in the “sandbox” and see for yourself what it can do

Learn more about eVAL’s functions and capabilities for teachers and principals

• Evaluation (Growth Management)
• Student Perception Survey tools for teachers; experiment with this in the “sandbox
• Video Calibration exercises for evaluators

Need access to eVAL and don’t have an ESD account? Learn how to create an EDS account and request access to eVAL

eVAL Support Documents

• Quick Start Guide
• District Administrator Settings that Effect Users
• eVAL 2.0 User Guide
• Principal Guide to Summative Evaluation
• Teacher Guide to Summative Evaluation
• District Administrators Handbook
• Using eVAL Only for Final Summative Evaluation Report
• Login to EDS and your eVAL site
• Washington State TPEP Site
• Washington State eVAL Site