CPACE CORE EXAM MANUAL 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+ TIP
✔✔Teaching can be improved by using: - ✔✔*frameworks of attributes and behaviors of
effective teachers and teaching
*dimensions and principles of learning
*standards for authentic pedagogy
*instructional strategies and structures
*culturally responsive teaching and cultural competency
✔✔Effective teachers do these things: - ✔✔*utilize good pacing
*evaluate students learning
*cohesion by connecting learning
*provide consistent feedback
*orderly environment with co-created rules
*using scaffolding and adjust difficulty for some students
*give students a chance to apply learning in rewarding way
*groups and differentiated instruction
*communicate frequently with all
*aren't harsh
*authentic praise
*keeps students engaged and effective transitions
✔✔clinical supervision process - ✔✔Pre observation (goals)
Observation
Reflection by admin and teacher
Post observation conference
✔✔guidelines for successful clinicial supervision - ✔✔familiarize teachers with the
process, ask questions, get to know teachers, informally visit classrooms frequently,
during conferences, analyze student work, model best practices and teach on occasion
✔✔Learning Centered - ✔✔- vision alligned with instructional needs and engages all
school personnel
- equipt classrooms
- maintain coherent school with minimal interuptons
-student focused discipline policy
- team meetings directly focused on educational goals
- teaching and assessments aligned with standards
- portfolios
- targeted PD
-mentorship and peer coaching
- cluster leaders to develop and support principal and teacher networks
,✔✔Who made CCSS? - ✔✔Coordinated by Council of Chief State School Officers
(CCSSO) and National Governance
✔✔Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - ✔✔*access to general curriculum
*be involved in general curriculum
*make progress in general curriculum
✔✔Individualized Education Plan (IEP) must detail: - ✔✔-goals for general curriculum,
require supplementary aids/services, accommodations (content the same),
modifications (change content) or supports, explanation of why a student would not
participate in general ed classroom, must measure and update progress on goals, use
benchmarks and issue progress reports, students must participate in state assessments
(w accommodations)
✔✔GATE bias - ✔✔kids in poverty of minority 200x less likely to be labeled GATE
✔✔Jacob K Javits Gifted and Talented Student Education Act (1988) - ✔✔specifically
addresses special needs of GATE kids and the US Department of Ed can support
through 1. funding grants, providing leadership, sponsoring research
✔✔Service learning - ✔✔connects community to students, can help at risk students
✔✔career academies - ✔✔high school, voluntary, last 2,3,4 years
✔✔Organizational structure and learning - ✔✔how does the master schedule (block
scheduling), space, time and ppl utilized to achieve goals
(block scheduling can support varied pedagogical strategies and small schools yield
better results with small teaching teams)
✔✔Planning: Strategic planning - ✔✔district wide goals
✔✔Planning: Backward Planning - ✔✔identifying what needs to be mastered then
working backwards to design assessments and activities
✔✔Planning: Performance Based Planning - ✔✔deals with disaggragating data to
assess needs, inform and help design future lessons (pre-assess)
✔✔Planning: Unit Planning - ✔✔activities, lessons, assessments
✔✔Specialized Instructional Supports (SISP) - ✔✔prevention and intervention:
counselors, psychologist, social worker, occupational therapists, physical therapists, art
therapies, dance/movement therapies, speech language path, audiologists
, ✔✔Considerations to formulate a school's vision - ✔✔- Who does the school serve
- Define quality teaching
- What are the goals for the learners
✔✔How to create a shared vision - ✔✔-staff guidance
-staff inspiration
-motivate improvement
-engage students and parents
-create enthusiastic participants
-work together to achieve the schools goals
✔✔Consensus building requires - ✔✔-entire group's buy in to agree to support and
implement even if not their most preferred
✔✔How to build consensus - ✔✔-sensitive to stakeholders needs
- listen to stakeholders' concerns
- share control
- offer support
- recruit advocates
- set priorities
-get past distractions
- make tough decisions (everyone)
- facilitate collaboration
- effective compromise
✔✔Who can search people - ✔✔Law Enforcement
✔✔DITEP Certification - ✔✔Certifies one to use suspicion as a reason to search
possessions (not people)
Drug
Intoxication
Training
Education
Purposes
✔✔RTI - ✔✔3 tiers
- Intervention in class by teacher
-Support Teams to create plan
- Special Education
✔✔non-traditional career training - ✔✔25% or more of one gender is represented in a
specific career field
✔✔Solutions to close achievement gap - ✔✔-adequate funding
-increase teacher pay
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+ TIP
✔✔Teaching can be improved by using: - ✔✔*frameworks of attributes and behaviors of
effective teachers and teaching
*dimensions and principles of learning
*standards for authentic pedagogy
*instructional strategies and structures
*culturally responsive teaching and cultural competency
✔✔Effective teachers do these things: - ✔✔*utilize good pacing
*evaluate students learning
*cohesion by connecting learning
*provide consistent feedback
*orderly environment with co-created rules
*using scaffolding and adjust difficulty for some students
*give students a chance to apply learning in rewarding way
*groups and differentiated instruction
*communicate frequently with all
*aren't harsh
*authentic praise
*keeps students engaged and effective transitions
✔✔clinical supervision process - ✔✔Pre observation (goals)
Observation
Reflection by admin and teacher
Post observation conference
✔✔guidelines for successful clinicial supervision - ✔✔familiarize teachers with the
process, ask questions, get to know teachers, informally visit classrooms frequently,
during conferences, analyze student work, model best practices and teach on occasion
✔✔Learning Centered - ✔✔- vision alligned with instructional needs and engages all
school personnel
- equipt classrooms
- maintain coherent school with minimal interuptons
-student focused discipline policy
- team meetings directly focused on educational goals
- teaching and assessments aligned with standards
- portfolios
- targeted PD
-mentorship and peer coaching
- cluster leaders to develop and support principal and teacher networks
,✔✔Who made CCSS? - ✔✔Coordinated by Council of Chief State School Officers
(CCSSO) and National Governance
✔✔Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - ✔✔*access to general curriculum
*be involved in general curriculum
*make progress in general curriculum
✔✔Individualized Education Plan (IEP) must detail: - ✔✔-goals for general curriculum,
require supplementary aids/services, accommodations (content the same),
modifications (change content) or supports, explanation of why a student would not
participate in general ed classroom, must measure and update progress on goals, use
benchmarks and issue progress reports, students must participate in state assessments
(w accommodations)
✔✔GATE bias - ✔✔kids in poverty of minority 200x less likely to be labeled GATE
✔✔Jacob K Javits Gifted and Talented Student Education Act (1988) - ✔✔specifically
addresses special needs of GATE kids and the US Department of Ed can support
through 1. funding grants, providing leadership, sponsoring research
✔✔Service learning - ✔✔connects community to students, can help at risk students
✔✔career academies - ✔✔high school, voluntary, last 2,3,4 years
✔✔Organizational structure and learning - ✔✔how does the master schedule (block
scheduling), space, time and ppl utilized to achieve goals
(block scheduling can support varied pedagogical strategies and small schools yield
better results with small teaching teams)
✔✔Planning: Strategic planning - ✔✔district wide goals
✔✔Planning: Backward Planning - ✔✔identifying what needs to be mastered then
working backwards to design assessments and activities
✔✔Planning: Performance Based Planning - ✔✔deals with disaggragating data to
assess needs, inform and help design future lessons (pre-assess)
✔✔Planning: Unit Planning - ✔✔activities, lessons, assessments
✔✔Specialized Instructional Supports (SISP) - ✔✔prevention and intervention:
counselors, psychologist, social worker, occupational therapists, physical therapists, art
therapies, dance/movement therapies, speech language path, audiologists
, ✔✔Considerations to formulate a school's vision - ✔✔- Who does the school serve
- Define quality teaching
- What are the goals for the learners
✔✔How to create a shared vision - ✔✔-staff guidance
-staff inspiration
-motivate improvement
-engage students and parents
-create enthusiastic participants
-work together to achieve the schools goals
✔✔Consensus building requires - ✔✔-entire group's buy in to agree to support and
implement even if not their most preferred
✔✔How to build consensus - ✔✔-sensitive to stakeholders needs
- listen to stakeholders' concerns
- share control
- offer support
- recruit advocates
- set priorities
-get past distractions
- make tough decisions (everyone)
- facilitate collaboration
- effective compromise
✔✔Who can search people - ✔✔Law Enforcement
✔✔DITEP Certification - ✔✔Certifies one to use suspicion as a reason to search
possessions (not people)
Drug
Intoxication
Training
Education
Purposes
✔✔RTI - ✔✔3 tiers
- Intervention in class by teacher
-Support Teams to create plan
- Special Education
✔✔non-traditional career training - ✔✔25% or more of one gender is represented in a
specific career field
✔✔Solutions to close achievement gap - ✔✔-adequate funding
-increase teacher pay
