Three Administrators Selected as Public Finalists for Superintendent/Principal
Post
The Lincoln Sudbury Regional School District unanimously approved a slate of
three local educational leaders as candidates for the position of
Superintendent/Principal. The school committee took its vote after receiving a
report and recommendations from its 11 Member Initial Screening and Interview
Committee.
The candidates are (in alphabetical Order) Jamie Chisum, principal of Wellesley
High School, Allyson Mizoguchi, principal of Wayland High School, and Andrew
Stephens, Principal of Lexington High School.
“We were fortunate to have a great pool of applicants and a very hard working
search committee,” said School Committee member Kevin Matthews who chaired the
screening panel. “Each is an experienced building leader and school
administrator.”
The school committee reviewed next steps in the process that will include
candidates spending a day at L-S High School, meeting with faculty, students,
families, and community members right through the evening session. The
candidates will follow up with a formal public interview with the school
committee. “This process owes a lot to our hard working faculty and community
members who spent several evenings and many hours reviewing application
packages,” said School Committee Chair, Heather Cowap.
BRIEF BIOS OF SUPERINTENDENT/PRINCIPAL CANDIDATES
Jamie Chisum is currently in his ninth year as Wellesley High School Principal.
After an initial teaching assignment in Pittsfield, Chisum taught English at
Wellesley for seven years before moving into an interim middle school
principalship and the position of Assistant Principal before taking the
leadership of the high school. The Berkshire County native earned his
Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and English Literature from Brandeis, a Masters
of Secondary English Education at UMASS-Amherst, and a Doctorate in Educational
Leadership from Boston College. He is licensed as a Superintendent/Assistant
Superintendent by the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Allyson Mizoguchi is now in her ninth years as Principal of Wayland High
School, having been the Assistant Principal from 2003-2014. She began her
career as an English teacher in Brookline and Wayland. Dr. Mizoguchi earned a
Bachelor’s Degree from Stanford University, a Master’s Degree in Education from
Harvard, and an Ed.D. from the Lynch School of Education at Boston College.
She maintained a link to BC by leading an On-Line 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 MA
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Andrew Stephens joined the Lexington Public Schools as the high school
principal. 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 spent another three as an Assistant
Housemaster. Stephens is a graduate of Colgate University where he obtained a
B.A. 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 Ed.D. from Northeastern. He is licensed as a
superintendent and principal by the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary
Education.
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Kevin J. Matthews
978-223-8399
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