CPACE COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+ TIP
✔✔Rigorous Curriculum & Instruction - ✔✔School wide standards based practice
Reviews monitors progress
Guidance that is clear
Assures alignment to state/national
standards
Ensures diverse student population
needs are met
Frequent classroom visits
2 way communication
✔✔Professional Development - ✔✔Professional Development:
Job Embedded
Teacher involvement
Planning, Delivering, Assessing
Follow up for adapting new learning - data driven
✔✔Individual Teacher PD - ✔✔Professional Development plan that focuses on specific
teaching strategies
Principal's responsibility to support teachers who aren't meeting professional
responsibilities. Professional Development that is developed collaboratively and sets
specific goals to meet the teachers needs.
✔✔Organizational systems---Safety - ✔✔Prevention
Education
Develops short and long-range strategic plans to improve operational system
,Facilitates communication and provides for data systems that ensure the timely
exchange of information
✔✔Safety--Equipment - ✔✔Plan in place for acquisition and maintenance of equipment
Appropriate use of technology / clearly defined
✔✔Fiscal & Human Resources - ✔✔Allocates funds based on student needs
Implements strategies to recruit and retain qualified personnel
Seeks additional resources to accomplish vision
First yr attrition - lack of administrative support
✔✔Welfare of staff and students - ✔✔Proactively addresses challenges to physical and
emotional wellbeing
- Develops and implements a plan that involves appropriate stakeholders to ensure a
safe teaching and learning environment
- Conducts ongoing reviews of the plan
Advocates for and oversees counseling and health referral systems that support student
learning and values
Identifies key emergency personnel inside and outside of school
Ongoing discussion of safety expectations with faculty and staff
✔✔Collaboration: Families & Community - ✔✔Accesses and utilizes resources to
remove barriers to learning
Integrates programs to fully engage school and community
Involves families in decision making
Uses public information strategies to communicate with families and community
Develops positive and local community partnerships
Cultural sensitivity to the area/population
, Open access to groups
✔✔Ethical & Legal Behavior - ✔✔Model personal and professional ethics, integrity,
justice, and fairness - and expect
same of others
Use of appropriate systems - and ensures confidentiality
Social Justice
Reinforces open decision making practices by making data and rationales explicit
Demonstrates high values and beliefs
High standards for all
✔✔Professional Influence - ✔✔More Global
Facilitates constructive discussions with school community about local, state, federal
requirements
Explains polices and regulations to school community
Listens to questions and problems that impact local school community
Advocates for equity and adequacy in providing for students and families needs
Engages in appropriate lobby and political activities to communicate data about
educational performance in order to inform decision-making and improve policy.
Advocates for excellence and equity in education.
✔✔Constructed response: Topic-Vision & Goals - ✔✔Implementation of Vision & Goals
- (10 minutes) - Describes a situation that an
education leader commonly encounters and needs to respond to.
Scenario is followed by a focused question that may require you to
• Outline plan or strategies/Resolve or balance competing claims/Prioritize actions
• Discuss next steps/Explain how the situation should be handled
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+ TIP
✔✔Rigorous Curriculum & Instruction - ✔✔School wide standards based practice
Reviews monitors progress
Guidance that is clear
Assures alignment to state/national
standards
Ensures diverse student population
needs are met
Frequent classroom visits
2 way communication
✔✔Professional Development - ✔✔Professional Development:
Job Embedded
Teacher involvement
Planning, Delivering, Assessing
Follow up for adapting new learning - data driven
✔✔Individual Teacher PD - ✔✔Professional Development plan that focuses on specific
teaching strategies
Principal's responsibility to support teachers who aren't meeting professional
responsibilities. Professional Development that is developed collaboratively and sets
specific goals to meet the teachers needs.
✔✔Organizational systems---Safety - ✔✔Prevention
Education
Develops short and long-range strategic plans to improve operational system
,Facilitates communication and provides for data systems that ensure the timely
exchange of information
✔✔Safety--Equipment - ✔✔Plan in place for acquisition and maintenance of equipment
Appropriate use of technology / clearly defined
✔✔Fiscal & Human Resources - ✔✔Allocates funds based on student needs
Implements strategies to recruit and retain qualified personnel
Seeks additional resources to accomplish vision
First yr attrition - lack of administrative support
✔✔Welfare of staff and students - ✔✔Proactively addresses challenges to physical and
emotional wellbeing
- Develops and implements a plan that involves appropriate stakeholders to ensure a
safe teaching and learning environment
- Conducts ongoing reviews of the plan
Advocates for and oversees counseling and health referral systems that support student
learning and values
Identifies key emergency personnel inside and outside of school
Ongoing discussion of safety expectations with faculty and staff
✔✔Collaboration: Families & Community - ✔✔Accesses and utilizes resources to
remove barriers to learning
Integrates programs to fully engage school and community
Involves families in decision making
Uses public information strategies to communicate with families and community
Develops positive and local community partnerships
Cultural sensitivity to the area/population
, Open access to groups
✔✔Ethical & Legal Behavior - ✔✔Model personal and professional ethics, integrity,
justice, and fairness - and expect
same of others
Use of appropriate systems - and ensures confidentiality
Social Justice
Reinforces open decision making practices by making data and rationales explicit
Demonstrates high values and beliefs
High standards for all
✔✔Professional Influence - ✔✔More Global
Facilitates constructive discussions with school community about local, state, federal
requirements
Explains polices and regulations to school community
Listens to questions and problems that impact local school community
Advocates for equity and adequacy in providing for students and families needs
Engages in appropriate lobby and political activities to communicate data about
educational performance in order to inform decision-making and improve policy.
Advocates for excellence and equity in education.
✔✔Constructed response: Topic-Vision & Goals - ✔✔Implementation of Vision & Goals
- (10 minutes) - Describes a situation that an
education leader commonly encounters and needs to respond to.
Scenario is followed by a focused question that may require you to
• Outline plan or strategies/Resolve or balance competing claims/Prioritize actions
• Discuss next steps/Explain how the situation should be handled
