Assistant Principal

Position Type:
Administration

Date Posted:
4/22/2026

Location:
Indian Creek Middle School

District:
Indian Creek Shabbona #425


Indian Creek CUSD 425

Job Title: Assistant Principal Middle School

Reports to: Superintendent

Job Goal: Assists the principal in the organization, safety, administration, and supervision of the middle school. Assists principal with improvements supporting all aspects of teaching and learning.

Job Qualifications: Professional Educator License Endorsement with a Principal or General Administrative endorsement, MA in Educational Administration, 5 years of teaching experience and prior administrative experience or such alternatives to the listed qualifications as the Board of Education may find appropriate and acceptable.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Takes initiative in partnering with the principal to maintain a safe and positive learning environment, proactively addressing observed needs in a timely manner with professionalism and students' best interests always at the forefront.
• Interacts and collaborates professionally with all faculty and staff to prevent and solve problems in addition to supporting all faculty and staff members' work with students.
• Implements a school-wide behavior management system with meaningful incentives and consequences, assuming responsibility for handling student discipline issues with empathy, fairness, and consistency in adherence with the Student Handbook and BOE policy (investigating, communicating with all involved, and issuing consequences).
• Provides leadership for attendance improvement efforts.
• Assumes responsibility for monitoring daily attendance functions, which includes communicating with students and parents about unexcused and/or excessive excused absences through phone calls, letters, and meetings as needed.
• Communicates with the ROE about truancy, which includes informing the ROE when students reach the 10-day mark, providing previous parent notifications, and participating in ROE/parent/student meetings to improve student attendance.
• Assumes responsibility for monitoring tardies to school/class, communicating with students about chronic tardiness to improve, and issuing consequences when applicable.
• Coordinates student detentions, in-school suspensions, and out-of-school suspensions.
• Assists in the supervision of extra-curricular activities as assigned.
• Assists in supervision of student lunches.
• Assists in the evaluation of certified staff as assigned by the principal.
• Maintains a presence in the building, including hallways during transitions, to communicate with students, be accessible to them, and promote positive behavior.
• Serves on the middle school Building Leadership Team.
• Participates in the District Administrative Team.
• Revises the Student Handbook on a yearly basis.
• Maintains and revises the Crisis Management Plan.
• Organizes and facilitates safety drills (fire, severe weather, intruder).
• Assists with standardized testing.
• Implements mandatory surveys, such as the 5Essentials.
• Participates in parent teacher conferences.
• Attends and participates in faculty meetings.
• Attends and participates in School Improvement meetings, supporting initiatives and goals.
• Attends and supervises occasional after-school events, like dances, and 8th grade promotion.
• Prepares administrative reports as assigned.
• Assumes the responsibility of the principal of the school in the absence of the principal when designated.
• Assumes other duties as assigned by the principal.

Salary/Benefits: The recommended candidate for this position will receive a regionally competitive starting salary depending on educational background and experience. Benefits are available on our website.

To apply please go to All applications must include letters of recommendations, copy of valid and appropriate teaching certificates, and transcripts. These should be uploaded to the application online. For questions, please contact: Chad Willis, Superintendent, 506 S. Shabbona Rd, Shabbona, IL 60550. phone: View phone number on click.appcast.io.