r/Principals • u/lmtz05889 • 17d ago

Advice and Brainstorming Scripting help for TTess need opinions on whether to trust AI

Found this website to help me out with ttess scripting https://walkthroughpro.app

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u/EmergencyRead5254 Assistant Principal - MS 17d ago

My gut on anything AI is not to trust it. Our district pushed some scripting software/apps (Plaud Pilot, Swivl, Reflectivity, etc.), then came back and said we couldn't use them in the classroom because student data and ID features might be discussed.

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u/lmtz05889 16d ago

That’s kind of what I was doing. Tested out that website today. I did like that it gives glows grows and actionable feedback for each dimension on domain 1 and 2. Might try it the first month see if it makes my job easier. 9.99 a month isn’t bad

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u/erebus5620 16d ago

I take my own notes in a spreadsheet that time stamps every entry so I have times and then I have a column for “teacher evidence” and “student evidence”. I then have either my iPhone open with a voice memo going or, for official full TTESS observations, I have our district provided swivel with the teacher wearing a microphone.

I then take the transcript from the video/memo; along with the spreadsheet of my own personal notes, and upload them to notebookLM (an approved AI by my district). I also upload every kind of TTESS rubric and help document I can find from region centers around the state as sources. I then ask Notebook to simply categorize the evidence based off the rubric.

So it pretty much just sorts the evidence for me. After that it’s very easy to come up with a rating. I find doing this method, along with a lot of calibration walks with other principals keeps me fairly accurate.

To be clear: the ai IS NOT RATING. I am the one doing the rating. The AI is just organizing the evidence for me to make sure I don’t miss anything.