STAAR Extended Constructed Response
Score ECR essays against the official TEA rubric — Development & Organization of Ideas, Conventions, and Overall.
Features
Every writing rubric you assess, in one platform.
WriteAlign was rebuilt from the ground up for Texas districts. Here's the full feature surface — what's live now, and what's on the way.
Scoring & rubrics
Multi-rubric, multi-framework scoring.
Score against the official TEA rubric. Build your own. Switch frameworks per assignment. The scoring engine adapts to whatever rubric structure you give it.
Short Constructed Response
Reading, science, and social studies SCRs scored to TEA rubric specifications across grades 3–8 and EOC.
TSI Writing
Texas Success Initiative writing prompts scored to current TSI standards — for college readiness preparation.
ACT & SAT Essay
Practice essay scoring aligned to ACT Writing and SAT Essay rubrics — supports college-bound student preparation.
TELPAS Writing
TELPAS-aligned writing assessment for English Learners across listening, speaking, reading, and writing domains.
Custom rubric builder
Build district- or campus-specific rubrics with configurable domains, point scales, and criteria. The scoring engine adapts automatically.
Exemplar responses
Every report shows model student responses at each performance level, so students see what proficiency looks like.
Per-domain feedback
Detailed, criterion-based feedback for each rubric domain — not just a single overall comment.
Workflow
Scoring fits the way teachers work.
Drag in a folder of essays. Paste in a single response. Print clean reports for parent conferences. WriteAlign respects your time at every step.
Multi-format upload
Upload student work as PDF, DOCX, or plain text. Paste essays directly, or drag-and-drop a folder of files.
Batch scoring
Score an entire class at once. WriteAlign processes asynchronously in the background, no waiting on any single essay.
Print-optimized PDF reports
Clean, professional reports with district/campus/teacher metadata, ready to share with parents or print for student folders.
Comments & tags
Annotate reports with teacher comments and tag submissions for follow-up, intervention, or instructional grouping.
Reusable assignments
Save your prompts and rubric pairings as templates — share with grade-level teams or copy across class periods.
Analytics & dashboards
See growth, not just snapshots.
Score trends, domain-level insight, and AI-suggested grouping turn assessment into instructional planning. Operational dashboards roll up to the campus and district level.
Score trend analysis
Track student writing growth across an entire school year with longitudinal trend lines and growth velocity classification.
Domain performance radar
See at a glance where a class is strong and where they need reteaching, broken down by rubric domain.
AI-suggested grouping
Automatically segment students by performance pattern so you can plan small-group instruction in minutes, not hours.
Growth visualizations
Interactive charts showing student, class, campus, and district-level writing growth over time — with rubric-domain filters.
Campus dashboard
Campus-wide scores by teacher and grade level, with submission rates and intervention signals — built for principals and ICs.
District dashboard
Cross-campus comparisons, adoption metrics, and usage analytics for district leadership and instructional coaches.
Coming with Phase 3
A coach that respects student voice.
Our AI writing coach is designed with five guardrails: never rewrite for the student, preserve their voice, never assign a score, suggest don't prescribe, ask don't tell. Built into the model — and double-enforced at the code level.
Student writing coach
A guarded AI coach that asks instead of tells, preserves student voice, and never rewrites a student's work — coming with Phase 3.
Designed-in coaching guardrails
No rewriting. No grading. Suggest, don't prescribe. Ask, don't tell. Five guardrails enforced at the model level and in code.
Security & privacy
Built for student data, from day one.
Privacy is not a layer we added. PII redaction, encryption, role-based isolation, audit logging, and Anthropic Zero-Data-Retention are foundational design decisions.
PII redaction pipeline
Names, phone numbers, and email addresses are automatically stripped from student writing before any AI call — locally, before transmission.
Role-based access control
Six user roles with row-level data isolation so a teacher only sees their students, and a campus admin only their campus.
Audit logging
Every access and change to student data is recorded — supporting FERPA compliance reporting and incident response.
Encryption in transit and at rest
TLS in transit; AES-256 at rest via AWS RDS. Hosted on AWS with district-grade infrastructure standards.
Anthropic Zero-Data-Retention
Student writing sent to the AI is processed in real time and immediately discarded — no logging, no storage, no training use.
Ready to see it in action?
Book a 30-minute demo. We'll walk through real reports for the rubrics your district uses, and answer the questions a slide deck can't.