Lebra Ascend
Spend less time evaluating. More time coaching.
Lebra Ascend is the AI-enabled staff evaluation platform that helps school leaders observe, provide feedback, and coach their staff, tailored to state requirements and district workflows. Spend less time on paperwork and more time coaching.
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- “Turn to your partner and defend your claim.” 18 of 24 students responded.
- Exit ticket, three questions, collected at the door.
Dana, the exit ticket gave you a quick check on every student before they left. Next time, try holding the partner talk a little longer before calling on volunteers, so the six who stayed quiet get a turn.
Example data, Riverbend School District, a fictional district
Spend less time evaluating. More time coaching.
Simplify evaluations for every role, tailored to your state’s requirements and your district’s workflows.
Observations, walkthroughs, growth plans and summatives, run on your own framework. AI drafts the feedback while the lesson is fresh. The evaluator decides what to say.
Time, coaching and customization, built for district leaders.
With a customizable rubric, coaching playbooks and AI support, Lebra Ascend cuts the paperwork around evaluation so leaders spend that time with educators.
- 1a · Planning and preparationProficient · 3
- 2b · Classroom cultureDistinguished · 4
- 3b · Questioning and discussionProficient · 3
Observation assignments
- JJJacob JohnsonScience TeacherRequest IPLP
- ESEmily SmithEnglish TeacherRequest IPLP
Your rubric, not a generic one.
Instead of forcing schools to use a one-size-fits-all rubric, Lebra Ascend allows districts to “plug in” their own criteria, performance levels and point structures, so the platform evaluates work the same way their teachers already do.
- Ascend does
- Matches your observation notes to your framework and fills in the forms.
- You decide
- The rating, and every word of the feedback.
Feedback while the lesson is fresh.
Take notes in the classroom the way you always have.
- Ascend does
- Drafts strengths-based feedback and coaching prompts from your notes and the teacher’s goals, before you leave the classroom.
- You decide
- Which feedback to keep, and when to send it.
Consistent coaching in every school.
Pre-built coaching playbooks turn a district’s coaching model into on-screen steps, prompts and forms, so every coaching cycle looks and feels consistent across schools.
- Ascend does
- Prepares you for each coaching meeting and suggests next steps tied to your framework.
- You decide
- Which next steps to take up, and how the conversation goes.
Teachers lead their own growth.
Feedback and one to three growth goals are tailored to each educator, so professional growth fits the person, not a template.
- Ascend does
- Prompts the reflections and organizes observations and feedback around each teacher’s goals.
- The teacher decides
- The teacher chooses the goals, and you coach toward them.
Growth over compliance.
Lebra Ascend turns educator evaluation from a procedural checklist into a coaching relationship. By taking on hours of clerical work (evidence tagging, scripting, alignment and form completion), Lebra Ascend gives leaders time for more one-on-one conversations grounded in research-based standards and reflective practice. Evaluation becomes less about compliance and more about growth, support and good instruction.
Lebra Assistant: coaching for the coaches.
Lebra Assistant helps leaders model high-quality coaching conversations with confidence and clarity. With AI support, leaders can:
- Generate strengths-based coaching prompts tailored to the teacher’s goals and evidence collected before leaving the classroom
- Model effective dialogue that fosters reflection, trust and professional growth
- Prepare for coaching meetings in minutes, not hours
- Practice and refine coaching style with guided conversation frameworks
- Receive suggested action steps aligned to research-based standards
Lebra Assistant becomes the leader’s coaching partner, helping them show up prepared and supportive in every conversation.
Improving time management helps teachers get more done in class. Here is a step-by-step approach for your coaching conversation:
Step 1: Assess current practices. Ask the teacher to reflect on how they plan their time now. What strategies are they using? What challenges do they face?
Identify time wasters. Help them find activities that take time without adding value, such as long transitions or unplanned meetings.
Step 2: Set clear goals. Agree on one change to try before your next visit.
Teacher ownership.
Through Lebra Ascend, educators gain a stronger voice in their own development by leading self-reflection, choosing growth goals that matter to them, and receiving feedback that is transparent, specific and clearly tied to their practice.
Self-reflection as the starting point
Lebra Ascend starts every growth cycle with teacher self-reflection prompts tied to core practice areas (instruction, classroom culture, assessment, family engagement).
Teacher-led growth goal selection
Instead of top-down goals, each educator translates their reflection into 1–3 concrete, measurable growth goals using well-known structures such as SMART goals.
Transparent, supportive feedback
Observation, coaching and AI-assisted feedback are organized around the educator’s self-identified goals, making feedback feel relevant and collaborative rather than compliance-driven.
Ongoing voice in the cycle
Lebra Ascend can prompt follow-up reflections mid-cycle and at the end of the year so educators revisit their goals, document progress and adjust next steps.
Self-reflection · Classroom culture
Discussion goes well with the same eight students. I want the quieter half of the room talking too.
Goals I chose
- 1More students in discussion: from about 8 to at least 16 of 24 speaking in a class period, by March.
- 2An exit ticket in every lesson, reviewed the same day, through the end of the semester.
In district leaders’ words.
“Lebra Ascend is all about using AI in a smart way so you don’t lose the human side of evaluation or communication, but you are more efficient in your job.”
Dr. Brady Dickinson, Superintendent, Twin Falls School District #411 · Lebra AscendWho uses Ascend.
For principals, HR, coaches and teachers.
Principals
Finish observations, walkthroughs and summatives with less typing after each visit.
HR
See evaluation cycles across every building, on your state’s requirements.
Instructional coaches
Run every coaching cycle from the same playbooks and prompts.
Teachers
Start with self-reflection, choose your own growth goals and get feedback tied to them.
Your district’s data stays yours.
You answer to your board and your community for this data. Here is how we handle it.
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- Hosted in the United StatesWith providers certified to SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
- Your district’s data is not used to train AI modelsIt is there to answer your questions and draft your documents.
See Lebra on your district's own work.
Thirty minutes with someone from the Lebra team. Bring an evaluation framework, a board report or a policy question you're stuck on. We'll show you what Lebra does with it.
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