PRINCIPAL AND SUPERINTENDENT CERTIFICATION EXAM PREP

You’ll make the grade with CCOSA’s expert-guided training.

Are you interested in becoming certified as an Oklahoma principal and/or superintendent? Dr. Paula Schornick and CCOSA have partnered to provide virtual trainings for the Oklahoma Subject Area Tests, or OSATs, for Principals and Superintendents. Dr. Schornick is a 30-year Oklahoma public school educator who has worked as a high school mathematics teacher and coach, college and university mathematics instructor, secondary administrator, university director, and university professor.

She is currently in her seventeenth year at Northeastern State University and teaches graduate courses in school administration, advises graduates students, and serves as the school administration program chair. Dr. Schornick also served on the committees that created the current and previous principal and superintendent exams. She has conducted principal and superintendent OSAT trainings for over 15 years.

One of the requirements set forth by the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) for becoming a certified school/district administrator is a passing score on an appropriate licensure exam. The Certification Examinations for Oklahoma Administrators (CEOE) provides both a principal exam and a superintendent exam to fulfill this requirement. Those wishing to become a certified school principal in Oklahoma can take the Principal Comprehensive Assessment (144) OSAT, and those wishing to become a certified district superintendent can take the Superintendent (248) OSAT. Each virtual training begins at 9 a.m. and concludes by 4:30 p.m. Participants are guided through the process of registering, selecting a testing site, choosing a testing day and time, and attaining information regarding exam scores and score release dates. Next, participants are provided an overview of the two administrator OSATs, including the format of the exams, study guides for both exams, and the exams’ assessed subareas. The morning training concludes with an extensive discussion of the exams’ competencies and topic examples within each subarea, the selected-response questions, and an introduction to the written-response section of the two exams.

During a working lunch break, participants read and analyze a sample scenario, review exhibits of data, and complete a writtenresponse worksheet. In the afternoon session, participants work with two or three others in online breakout rooms to share takeaways from the scenario and data exhibits and their completed worksheets. Following the breakout room portion of the training, Dr. Schornick discusses the writtenresponse scenarios and exhibits of data, shares sample written responses, and walks participants through a breakdown of the sample responses. Participants are also provided additional resources, including Dr. Schornick’s own personal written-response notes, actual scorer notes and tips, and other helpful information Dr. Schornick has received from the OEQA office. The afternoon portion of the training concludes with Dr. Schornick sharing a sample “study plan,” a review of the National Policy Board for Educational Administration (NELP) standards, and other helpful resources. ■

Consider joining Dr. Paula Schornick and CCOSA for an upcoming one-day training! Training dates for the current school year are November 6, January 29, and March 26. To register, click here.