New Hampshire Teacher Evaluation Software
New Hampshire is a local-control state. Districts design their own teacher evaluation systems, informed by the state's recommended effective-teaching model. EX supports whatever framework your district adopts.
Evaluation is the entry point, not the whole story. In EX in Education, evaluations connect to coaching, goals, PD, and retention, so every educator moves from hired to thriving.
Teacher Observation
How New Hampshire Approaches Teacher Evaluation
New Hampshire keeps educator evaluation under local control. State law requires each district to adopt its own evaluation system, and the state provides a recommended model rather than a single mandated rubric. That model, developed by the NH Task Force on Effective Teaching, is built on professional teaching standards, multiple measures, and four performance levels. In EX in Education, whatever framework your district uses becomes the doorway into a connected system for coaching, PD, and retention.
Locally Designed, State Informed
New Hampshire does not impose one statewide rubric. Districts build their own systems, often informed by the state's recommended model, and EX adapts to the framework you already run.
- State law requires each district to adopt an evaluation system
- The state model is recommended, not mandated
- Grounded in recognized professional teaching standards
- Load your own rubric or start from a common one
Multiple Measures of Effectiveness
New Hampshire's recommended model draws on more than a single observation, combining evidence from practice and impact. EX records those measures alongside observation results.
- Classroom observations against your rubric
- Multiple measures of practice and impact
- Four performance levels in the state model
- Professional growth planning built in
Configured for the Framework Your District Uses
Because New Hampshire has no single statewide rubric, EX in Education lets districts load their own. Many New Hampshire districts build on a widely used four-domain teaching framework, such as the Danielson Framework for Teaching, which shaped the state model. Those domains come pre-built, or you can bring your own.
Planning & Preparation
Components covering what teachers do before instruction begins.
- 1. Knowledge of content and pedagogy
- 2. Knowledge of students
- 3. Setting instructional outcomes
- 4. Knowledge of resources
- 5. Designing coherent instruction
- 6. Designing student assessments
Classroom Environment
Components covering culture, relationships, and classroom management.
- 7. Environment of respect and rapport
- 8. Culture for learning
- 9. Managing classroom procedures
- 10. Managing student behavior
- 11. Organizing physical space
Instruction
Components covering instruction as it happens in the classroom.
- 12. Communicating with students
- 13. Questioning and discussion
- 14. Engaging students in learning
- 15. Using assessment in instruction
- 16. Flexibility and responsiveness
Professional Responsibilities
Components covering reflection, records, and continued growth.
- 17. Reflecting on teaching
- 18. Maintaining accurate records
- 19. Communicating with families
- 20. Participating in the professional community
- 21. Growing and developing professionally
- 22. Showing professionalism
Formal Observations
- • Scheduled against your district's rubric
- • Pre-observation conference
- • Post-observation conference and written feedback
- • Cadence set by district policy
Informal Walkthroughs
- • Typically 5 to 15 minutes
- • Announced or unannounced
- • Brief, timely feedback
- • Number set by district policy
Local control: New Hampshire does not mandate a single statewide rubric or a state evaluator credential. State law requires each district to adopt its own educator evaluation system, and many build on the state's recommended model. EX in Education adapts to whatever your district adopted, and tracks formal observations and walkthroughs together with reminders so you stay on cycle.
Four Performance Levels, Tracked Over Time
New Hampshire's recommended model uses four performance levels. Districts may use these labels or their own. EX in Education records each rating, ties it to the evidence behind it, and carries it forward so growth is visible from one cycle to the next.
Highly Effective
Consistently exceeds expectations and models practice for others
Effective
Meets expectations and demonstrates proficient practice
Needs Improvement
Shows growth potential and needs support in some areas
Ineffective
Requires significant improvement and intensive support
Many New Hampshire districts vary how often a teacher is evaluated by track, with beginning teachers, continuing-contract teachers, and teachers on improvement plans following different cadences set in local policy. EX in Education keeps each teacher's rating history, cycle schedule, and improvement plans in one place, and routes the ones who need support into coaching cycles so a rating leads to next steps, not just a score.
Built for New Hampshire's Local-Control Evaluation
EX in Education gives New Hampshire districts what they need to run the evaluation system they designed, then connects that evidence to coaching, PD, goals, and retention across every school.
Your District's Framework
Load the rubric your district adopted, or start from a common four-domain framework, on the rating scale you use.
- • Bring your own rubric
- • Four-level rating scale
- • Evidence collection tools
Observation Cycles
Manage formal observations alongside quick walkthroughs, with scheduling and reminders in one connected system.
- • Formal observations
- • Informal walkthroughs
- • Cycle reminders
Multiple Measures
Record the multiple measures your district uses alongside observation results, in one record.
- • Practice and impact evidence
- • Evidence in one record
- • District-defined sources
Coaching Handoff
Turn what an observation surfaces into a coaching cycle, so feedback leads to real support instead of a filed form.
- • Evidence to coaching
- • Structured feedback
- • Follow-up visits
Professional Growth Planning
Support the goal-setting, evidence collection, and reflection cycle at the heart of New Hampshire's model.
- • Collaborative goal setting
- • Evidence and reflection
- • Year-end review
Growth Goals
Set professional goals tied to what the evaluation surfaced, tracked in the same module that follows a teacher across the year.
- • Goal setting tools
- • Progress tracking
- • Linked to PD
Why New Hampshire Districts Run Evaluations Inside EX in Education
Run the evaluation your district designed, then use what it surfaces to actually grow and keep your teachers. Evaluation is the doorway. Educator growth and retention is the product.
Less admin, more coaching
Structured workflows and feedback tools free evaluators to spend more of their time in coaching conversations, not paperwork.
Consistent across schools
Your district's rubric and processes help evaluators score consistently, whether it is one building or every school.
Growth you can see
Ratings, goals, and coaching history sit together, so progress is visible over time instead of scattered across files.
Retention, not just ratings
When feedback connects to PD, goals, and support, teachers keep developing, and districts keep the ones they worked hard to hire.
How AI Supports Your Evaluations
AI in EX in Education helps evaluators work through evaluations faster while keeping every judgment in human hands. It drafts and organizes, evaluators decide.
Draft Feedback From Evidence
Turn observation notes into clear feedback aligned to your rubric that the evaluator reviews and edits before it is shared.
Organize Evidence by Indicator
Sort notes and artifacts against your rubric's domains and indicators, so nothing is missed when it is time to score.
Suggest Growth Next Steps
Surface coaching moves and PD ideas tied to what an observation revealed, ready for the evaluator to assign.
Bring Your Evaluation Into the Bigger Picture
See how EX in Education runs the evaluation your New Hampshire district designed, then connects it to coaching, PD, goals, and retention across every school.
Built for local control. Bring your own rubric, or start from ours. Connected to coaching, PD, and goals.
Part of EX in Education
One piece of the educator experience.
New Hampshire teacher evaluations are one part of how districts support educators. In EX in Education, they connect to the bigger picture: walkthroughs, coaching, evaluations, goals, PD, recognition, surveys, and retention. Bring your own process, or start from a template, then run it across every school so every educator moves from hired to thriving.
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