For school districts and universities
Your candidates are not unqualified.
They are under-prepared.
When capable people keep failing the qualifying exam, it is rarely about ability. It is about preparation. Principal Ready gives your group the strategy layer that turns studying into passing.
No budget to approve? There’s a $0, zero-risk way to bring us in.
Download the one-page overview (PDF)01 Strengthen the pipeline
Your next principal is already on your campus.
Retention is the new recruitment. Every assistant principal who passes the 268 is a leader you keep and promote, not one you scramble to hire from outside. The bottleneck is not talent. It is the exam. Choose the seat you are buying from.
Who this is for
K-12 districts building their next principals and assistant principals from within.
Strong assistant principals on my campuses keep failing the 268. Every retake stalls the pipeline and pushes us toward hiring from outside.
What Principal Ready delivers
- 01
Move the pipeline
More of your leaders clear the 268, so you promote from within instead of scrambling to hire.
- 02
Keep your best people
The AP you develop and certify is the leader you keep. Retention is the new recruitment.
- 03
Cut the cost of retakes
Fewer repeat attempts mean less lost time, less wasted budget, and less momentum lost.
02 Why it works
No study guide works without this.
Content tells your candidates what to know. It does not teach them how the exam behaves. Principal Ready teaches two signature strategies, the C.L.U.E. Method and Bob & Weave, the system for reading a question, attacking it, and beating the clock.
AI Test Coach
A personal coach, powered by Claude, mapped to the 268 blueprint. It writes practice, breaks down every miss, and never sleeps.
Readiness you can report
A readiness rating that climbs as each candidate masters the six domains, with exports you can take straight to leadership.
The strategy holds it up. Now the content your group buys actually sticks.
Independent research · HumRRO, 2025
Twice the first-attempt pass rate. On the record.
HumRRO’s 2025 independent study compared the courses Dr. A built and led as founder of The Learning Liaisons against the major competitors in the field. The numbers below come from that study.
First-attempt pass rate
0×
Higher than the major competitors
Margin on 1st attempt
+0pts
First-attempt pass rate, head-to-head vs. competitors
Course engagement
+0%
Higher engagement levels vs. major competitors
Internal pass tracking
94–96%
Reported pass rate for course completers
From a pass-tracking system Dr. A built at The Learning Liaisons that followed course participants all the way to test day, then collected reported pass rates from test-takers. Separate from the HumRRO study above.
Source · HumRRO (Human Resources Research Organization), 2025, an independent comparative study of certification exam prep platforms. Courses designed and led by Jason Ampel, Ed.D, as founder of The Learning Liaisons (sold in 2021).
See it coming
Every candidate’s projected score, before test day.
The 268 is scored 100 to 300, and 240 passes. Principal Ready turns each candidate’s readiness into a projected scaled score on that exact scale, so you can see who is tracking toward 240 and who needs support while there is still time to act.
A number leadership understands
Not a vague progress bar. A projected score against the real pass line, ready to export to your board.
Intervene before the exam, not after
Spot the candidates below the line early and route coaching where it changes the outcome.
A practice-based projection, not a score guarantee.
The Road to 240
Building226
projected scaled score
likely range 216–237
At 80% readiness the projection reaches the 240 pass line. Every domain you master pushes the number higher.
Your cohort, at a glance
- Candidate A226
- Candidate B248
- Candidate C262
- Candidate D216
A practice-based projection, not a score guarantee. The TExES 268 reports a 100–300 scaled score; 240 is the Texas passing standard.
03 Ways to partner
Three ways to partner. One at no cost.
Start free and grow into tracked access whenever you are ready. Every one works with purchase orders, and you never pay retail.
Partnership
$0 to you
Sign a simple one-year MOU and we set up a co-branded page for your candidates. They join on their own at $27/mo or $97/yr, versus the $37/mo retail rate. You pay nothing, and you can walk away anytime.
Start a partnershipAccess codes
$97 to $67 / seat
Buy seats by volume, each a full year at a fraction of the $197 retail price. Distributed by license key, with the administrator portal so you control seats and track every candidate.
See the portalSite license
From $5,995 / year
Unlimited candidates for the year, well under per-seat retail at any real size, with the full administrator dashboard and cohort reporting built in.
See the portalLive launch workshop · $5,000 flat
Add a live start: Dr. A trains your candidates in person for 4 to 5 hours and they build their prep in the room. Up to 50 candidates, travel and a year of access included.
The no-cost partnership shows you how many of your candidates enroll. Want per-person progress, readiness, and exportable reports? That comes with access codes or a site license.
04 Simple to run
Easy to launch. Easy to manage.
No IT project and no spreadsheets. Get set up in minutes, share one link, and watch every candidate move from a single dashboard.
principalready.com / partners / onboard
Activate your partnership
One private link. No login to create.
01 Go live
Approve the deal and one private link brings a partner online.
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Riverside Unified · Principal Ready
Partner rateYour candidates join here and start the TExES 268 prep.
$27
/mo · monthly
$97
/yr · best value
02 Share
A co-branded page enrolls their people at the partner rate.
Partner Portal · Manager dashboard
Cohort readiness
Live248
Active
63%
Pass-ready
22
At risk
03 Manage
Track progress, readiness, and at-risk candidates in real time.
05 What it costs
Pay per candidate, or license the year.
Slide to your candidate count and the calculator does the math, including which option saves you more.
Access codes
Pay per candidate
Saves $5,000 vs. 50 individual signups at retail1 more reaches Tier 2 for another 8% off the base rate
Volume pricing · every candidate already 51%+ under retail
Site license
Unlimited candidates
Up to 100 candidates
Small districts or single departments
$5,995
per year
Saves $3,855 vs. 50 at retail$1,145 more than codes here
101 to 300 candidates
Mid-size districts and universities
$12,995
per year
301+ candidates
Large districts, universities, statewide
$18,995
per year
All licenses include the admin portal, progress tracking, and priority support. Multi-site and statewide pricing available.
At 50 candidates, pay-per-code is the smarter buy by $1,145.
Codes winAll prices in USD. Codes are valid 12 months from the date each candidate activates.
Procurement, answered straight
The questions buyers ask first.
Because those programs teach content, not strategy. They tell candidates what to know, not how the exam works or how to attack it. Principal Ready is the layer underneath: run it as a prerequisite so your existing prep finally lands, or on its own when no good option exists for a given exam. We also teach candidates to research their exam blueprint and build their own materials with our AI Study Lab, so even a niche test gets custom prep.
Yes. With a simple, no-cost MOU we set up a co-branded page for your group, and your candidates join on their own at a standing partner rate ($27/month or $97/year, versus the $37/month retail rate). Your organization pays nothing and there is no minimum. It is the zero-risk way to bring Principal Ready to your people.
Seats run from $97 down to $67 as your volume grows, and the annual site license is a flat rate from $5,995. The optional live launch workshop is $5,000 flat, up to 50 candidates with travel included. Slide the calculator on this page for seat and license pricing, or send us your numbers and we return a quote. We work with purchase orders.
Yes. We are set up to work with district and university procurement, including purchase orders and invoicing.
We work with cohorts of many sizes. Reach out with your numbers and we will find the right fit.
Principal Ready is built for the Texas TExES 268, Principal as Instructional Leader. Every lesson, the mock exam, the diagnostic, and the AI Test Coach are tuned to that one exam and its six domains, so your candidates get depth, not a generic course.
Yes. Licensed access and the site license include an administrator portal with progress, cohort readiness, and exportable reporting. See the administrator portal page for the full view.
A workshop can be scheduled in a matter of weeks. Licensed access can go live quickly once your seats are set.
We collect only what we need to run the course, we never sell data, and access is protected. For the no-cost partnership we see only how many of your people enroll, not individual records. We are glad to review privacy details with your team.
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