Vote On New Lincoln-Sudbury Superintendent Set For Wednesday

SUDBURY, MA — The Lincoln-Sudbury Regional School Committee Wednesday will pick the district's new superintendent after landing on three finalists in March.

The sole agenda item for a Wednesday meeting is to vote to pick the finalist. The committee held a series of forums with the candidates from Wayland, Wellesley and Lexington last week. The finalists also visited schools to meet students and high school staff.

Longtime Superintendent and Principal Bella Wong announced in October she would leave Lincoln-Sudbury at the end of this school year. That announcement led to the formation of an 11-member search committee, whose members ultimately whittled down the candidate pool to the top three.

Here are biographies for the three finalists competing to take over at Lincoln-Sudbury:

Jamie Chisum is currently in his ninth year as Wellesley High School Principal. After an initial teaching assignment in Pittsfield, Chisum taught English in Wellesley for seven years before becoming an interim middle school principal and then assistant principal before taking leadership of the high school. The Berkshire County native earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy and English literature from Brandeis, a master's of secondary English education at UMass-Amherst and a PhD in educational leadership from Boston College. He is licensed as a superintendent/assistant superintendent by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Allyson Mizoguchi is now in her ninth year as Principal of Wayland High School, having been the assistant principal from 2003 to 2014. She began her career as an English teacher in Brookline and Wayland. Mizoguchi earned a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, a master’s degree in education from Harvard University, and an EdD from the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. She maintained a link to BC by leading an online course on “Family and Community Engagement” in the Education Leadership and Policy program. She holds an active license for the superintendency and principalship from the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Andrew Stephens joined Lexington Public Schools as the high school principal [in 2017]. Prior to that, he spent 10 years as principal of Duxbury High School and four years heading Hull High School. He began his career as a history teacher in Vermont before returning to Massachusetts, where he taught for three years at Newton North High School, and spent another three as an assistant housemaster. Stephens is a graduate of Colgate University, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in history, and Johnson State College in Vermont, where he got his master's degree in education. He obtained a Certificate of Advanced Educational Studies from Boston College and an EdD from Northeastern. He is licensed as a superintendent and principal by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.