Hunt Club Elementary Gets New Assistant Principal

OSWEGO, IL — District 308 has hired Elisabeth Gillham as assistant principal for Hunt Club Elementary School, according to a news release. The Board of Education approved Gillham’s appointment in April, and she will assume her new role on July 25.

“Elisabeth Gillham will be a great addition to the Hunt Club family,” Hunt Club Principal Patrick Haddock said in the release. “She brings a wealth of experience to the Hunt Club team, both as a teacher and as an administrator. We are looking forward to working with her.”

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Since July 2011, Gillham has served as an assistant principal at Ball Elementary, in the Ball-Chatham School District. For six years prior to that, she was a language arts teacher at Mahomet-Seymour Junior High, in Mahomet, Ill.

While at Ball Elementary, Gillham completed Growth Through Learning Modules to evaluate teachers based on the Danielson Framework, coordinated assessment services for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), created master schedules, and balanced class lists. She also developed school-wide systems for Tier 3 behavior services and coordinated special education and 504 services.

“I am very honored and excited to have been chosen to fill the assistant principal opening at Hunt Club. School District 308 has a wonderful reputation and I look forward to being a part of that reputation,” Gillham said. “I’m excited to meet and get to know the staff, students and parents of Hunt Club. Everyone has been very welcoming thus far and I look forward to working together in the near future.”

Gillham received her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Illinois State University, Urbana-Champaign, and her master’s in educational organizational leadership from the University of Illinois, Normal.