Assistant Principal Instruction - East

Assistant Principal for Instruction - East

• Position Type:
  Administration/ Assistant Principal
• Date Posted: 12/9/2025
• Date Available:
  
  07/01/2025
• Closing Date: 12/30/2025

Position Assistant Principal for Instruction

Building Glenbard East

Term 12-month, 261 days

Position Type Licensed Administrative Staff

• License Required Professional Educator License (registered in DuPage County)
• General Administrator or Principal endorsement
• Successful completion of ISBE Teacher Evaluator Training and Modules

Start Date July 1, 2026

Salary Range $140,000 - $172,800

• Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
• Group term life insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Administrator required contribution to TRS/THIS
• 403(b) tax sheltered annuity plan
• Paid leave: 15 sick days, 3 personal days, 20 vacation days
• Professional association dues as approved by Superintendent
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Posting Job

• 12-month Administrator assigned to Glenbard East
• Focus is on developing a highly effective school culture based on a guaranteed and viable curriculum, timely interventions, and a comprehensive education

• Prior experience of at least five years in secondary classroom teaching and three years administrative experience
• Dynamic leadership qualities that builds strong relationships with students and staff
• Clear communication skills (both written and oral)

• Direct report to Principal

The assistant principal works with the staff and community to build a shared mission, and vision of high expectations that ensure all students are on the path to college and career readiness and hold staff accountable for results.

• Facilitate efforts to establish and implement a shared mission and vision for the school that leads to academic growth for all learners.
• Ensure that the school's identity, vision, and mission drive all school decisions.
• Set priorities in the context of improving student achievement.
• Align the educational programs, plans and actions to the district's vision and goals for student learning.
• Create symbols, ceremonies, and activities that support the vision and mission of the district.
• Develop communication strategies to inform stakeholders of progress towards the vision and mission of the district.
• Conduct difficult but crucial conversations with individuals, teams, and staff based on student performance data in a timely manner for the purpose of enhancing student learning and achieving improved results.

The assistant principal creates and implements systems to ensure a safe, orderly, and productive environment for student and adult learning for the purpose of achieving school and district improvement targets.

• Lead the development, implementation, and monitoring of school improvement targets which measure school wide academic achievement and school climate indicators.
• Establish and maintain a safe, effective learning environment.
• Collaborate with district and school staff to allocate personnel, time, material, and adult learning resources appropriately to achieve school improvement plan targets.
• Support district and school goals by managing fiscal and physical resources of the school responsibly, efficiently and effectively.
• Utilize current technologies to support leadership and management functions.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the change process and use leadership and facilitation skills to manage it effectively.

The assistant principal works with the school staff and community to develop a research-based framework for effective teaching and learning that is refined continuously to improve instruction for all students.

• Collaborate with staff to develop and implement a consistent framework for effective teaching and learning that includes a rigorous and relevant standards-based curriculum, research-based instructional practices, and high expectations for student performance.
• Establish a continuous improvement cycle that uses multiple forms of data and student work samples to support individual, team, and school-wide improvement goals, identify and address target areas for improvement, measure outcomes and celebrate successes.
• Ensure that differentiated instructional practices which address identified student needs are implemented with fidelity.
• Select and retain teachers with the expertise to deliver instruction that maximizes student learning.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of instruction and of individual teachers by conducting frequent formal and informal observations and provide timely, specific feedback on instruction as part of the district teacher appraisal system.
• Ensure the development of high performing instructional teacher teams by providing training and support grounded in best practices which are designed to advance student learning and performance.
• Ensure that professional growth plans are linked to data derived from…