Sibme is built to change that.
Most observation systems were designed to document teaching — not understand it. Sibme builds a continuous, evidence-rich picture of practice — collected across time, grounded in what actually happened.
An observer walks in. Spends an hour watching. Delivers feedback three days later, based on forty-five minutes they happened to be in the room.
A single event, captured on a form, is not a defensible picture of a teacher's practice. It takes enormous time to produce — and in the end, doesn't tell you much.
Video, artifacts, coaching conversations, and rubric steps — contributed by both parties, across an entire cycle. Not just more evidence. A fundamentally more honest picture.
Sibme AI connects a moment from October to a goal set in August to a rubric indicator evaluated in March. Every consequential decision stays with the human in the room. The AI eliminates documentation burden. It does not replace judgment.
Time saved on documentation can be spent enjoying the lesson and helping develop new skills.
Teachers decide what moves from coaching into formal evaluation. The platform connects spaces. It doesn't collapse them.
The Observations module is a structured process layer that connects formal evaluation to the coaching, goal-setting, and reflection work already happening in the platform. The sophistication of the model is determined by the district. Not imposed by the platform.
Process Managers design reusable observation templates — called Processes — that define each step in an evaluation cycle. Who completes each step, what evidence is required, whether scoring or forms are attached, and how signatures are collected. Two pre-built templates are available at launch: a First Year Teacher Cycle and an Experienced Teacher Cycle. Fully customizable to your district's terminology and frameworks.
A two-tier assignment model reflects real district hierarchies. Process Managers set dates and assign processes to Assignment Managers — typically campus principals — who then pair individual observers with teachers. A Viewer role allows high-level oversight without participation. Smaller schools can assign directly, without an intermediary layer.
Both the observer and the teacher have access to evidence capture tools within every step of the process. Evidence can be collected in any combination of modalities — video, notes, artifacts, forms, rubric scoring. Status tracking, filterable dashboards, and configurable signature collection are all built in.
While recording video on mobile, an observer scripts timestamped notes on their laptop. When the recording ends, every note anchors automatically to the corresponding moment in the video timeline.
No other platform connects mobile recording and desktop scripting in real time. No manual syncing. No lost context. Just a complete, timestamped record of what happened — ready to share.
Supervisors and administrators will have school- and district-level insight into observation completion, evidence trends, and growth data — integrated with Sibme's existing analytics infrastructure and AI instructional memory layer.
See the moment. Then talk about what it means.
Every space in Sibme has a defined boundary. Not as a permission level or a setting someone can toggle — as a design principle baked into the platform from the start. Teachers know exactly who can see what. That clarity is what makes it possible to use one platform for both coaching and formal evaluation without collapsing the two.
Evidence moves between spaces only when a teacher chooses to move it. No space forces evidence into another. The orange arrow marks the one transition that requires teacher action.
Sibme Observations is available now. Whether you're already using Sibme for coaching or evaluating a new approach to teacher evaluation, the next step is the same.
The instructional evidence platform for K–12 districts.
