ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL District Superintendent Sheila Soule

VERGENNES — Addison Northwest School District Superintendent Sheila Soule has signed a three-year contract to remain as the district’s educational leader, ANWSD Board Chair John Stroup told the Independent late on Tuesday.

The board approved her new contract Monday night, Stroup said, and he and Soule signed it Tuesday.

Soule joined ANWSD as superintendent on July 1, 2018, after serving for eight years as curriculum director for the Harwood Unified Union School District.

At one point Soule had been undecided about staying. She informed the board in late January 2020 she would leave at the end of that academic year, but ultimately had a change of heart. Four weeks later, just before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, she agreed to stay on the job.