Evaluations were meant
to improve teaching.

Most evaluation systems were built to complete a process. We believe evaluation should help leaders make more honest, evidence-backed decisions that build trust, strengthen teaching cultures, and help great teachers stay.

Run a Calibration Snapshot

01

What We Saw

Schools already have evaluation systems

  • They have rubrics

  • They have forms

  • They have processes

    • What they do not always have is confidence in the decisions being made

  • Evidence is often thin

  • It shows up late

  • It varies from one evaluator to another

  • By the time everything is submitted, it is often too late to improve the quality of the decision.

    • 02

    What Needs to Change

    Every evaluation should have checks and balances.

  • Clear

    Leaders should be able to explain their decisions.

  • Consistent

    Teachers should understand what matters and why.

  • Evidence-backed

    Every rating backed by real, documented evidence.

  • Transparent

    What supports the rating and what is missing is visible.

    • 03

    What RefynED Does

    Turn evaluations into systems teachers can trust.

    RefynED helps leaders see what supports a rating, what evidence may be missing, and where evaluator inconsistency exists before decisions are finalized. The result is a more honest, evidence-backed evaluation process that teachers can trust.

    04

    What This Leads To

    Stronger leadership creates stronger teaching cultures.

  • Stronger evaluations

    Ratings that hold up to scrutiny.

  • Better conversations

    Direct, useful dialogue between leaders and teachers.

  • More trust

    Trust built across the whole system.

  • Retention

    Schools where teachers want to stay.

    • 05

    Who We Are

    We believe honest systems build better teachers.

    We have built and led district analytics systems and technology used to support real decisions across schools.

    Through that work, we saw how evaluation decisions are made, and where they break down.

    Meet the team

    Built by K-12 thought leaders who've led evaluations, coached teachers, and managed districts. We know what works and we built RefynED to prove it

    Jena Draper

    Founder & CEO of RefynED; previously built and scaled CatchOn into a leading K–12 analytics platform used by hundreds of districts

    Dr. Shannon Terry

    Chief Impact Officer at RefynED; former district and state leader specializing in teacher evaluation, professional learning, and instructional systems.

    Dave Elliott

    CTO at RefynED; brings 25+ years of experience leading product and engineering teams across education and enterprise software.