Staff Directory - OESS


Main Contact - (605) 773-3218
Janet Ricketts - Director

773-6400

Job Duties: General Supervision
 
Special Education Programs - (605) 773-3678
Ann Larsen - Special Education Programs Director

773-3678

Job Duties: General Supervision, Fiscal Management
Susan Sheppick - Birth to 3 Connections Director

773-4478

Job Duties: General Supervision, Grants and Contracts
Angie Boddicker - Education Program Specialist

773-2594

Job Duties: Accountability Monitoring Process, Complaint Process

Rebecca Cain- Education Program Specialist
Job Duties: Positive Behavioral Interventions, Comprehensive System of Personnel Development, SIG Coordinator, Disproportionality 280-3568
Merle Doolittle - Secretary

773-3678

Job Duties: Office Duties
Melissa Flor - Education Program Specialist

773-8195

Job Duties: Assistive Technology, Disproportionality, Transition, 618 SPP Data Collection
Crystal Goeden - Birth to 3 Connections Education Program Specialist

773-5799

Job Duties: Technical assistance for service coordinators, parents and early intervention providers
Elizabeth Gordon - Education Program Specialist

773-4698

Job Duties: 619 Coordinator, assessment
Jan Lester - Birth to 3 Connections Education Program Specialist
773-2536
Job Duties: Technical Assistance to service coordinators, parents and early intervention providers
Ray Tracy - Education Program Specialist
773-3219
Job Duties: Advisory Panel for Children with Disabilities, Interagency Contracts, Large print Braille, RtI
Linda Turner - Education Program Specialist

773-6119

Job Duties: Alternate content standards, Dakota STEP-A, Dakota STEP accommodations, special education alternate listserv, IEP users listserv, on-line IEP system
 
Coordinated School Health - (605) 773-3261
Kari Senger - Coordinated School Health Director

773-4257

Job Duties: General Supervision, inter/intra agency coordination, establishment of local health councils
Sue Burgard - Education Program Specialist

773-5238

Job Duties: 21st Century Community Learning Centers; Gifted and Talented Contact
Mary Giddings - Senior Secretary

773-3261

Job Duties: Clerical Management Duties
April Hodges - Education Program Specialist

773-6898

Job Duties: HIV/AIDS Prevention Education
Karen Keyser - Education Program Specialist

773-6808

Job Duties: Comprehensive School Health Education
 
Title Programs - (605) 773-6400
Diane Lowery - Title I Director

773-6509

Job Duties: General Supervision, Title I, Part A, School Improvement
Julie Elrod - Secretary

773-6400

Job Duties: Office Duties
Steve Fiechtner - Education Program Specialist

773-4712

Job Duties: Consolidated Application, Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) Program 

Janet Haraldson - Senior Secretary

773-3218

Job Duties: Clerical Management Duties
Laura Johnson-Frame - Education Program Specialist

773-2491

Job Duties: Homeless, Neglected & Delinquent, Consolidated Application
Steph Lebeda - Education Program Specialist

773-4640

Job Duties: Title 1, Part B, Even Start; Head Start State Collaboration Director, assist with 2010E early childhood initiatives
Jerry Meendering - Education Program Specialist

773-4437

Job Duties: Title I, Part C, Education of Migratory Children, Consolidated Application
Beth Schiltz - Education Program Specialist

773-4716

Job Duties: Title I School Improvement, Public School Choice, Supplemental Educational Services, Schoolwide Program, Consolidated Application
Dawn Smith - Education Program Specialist

773-2535

Job Duties: Title I School Improvement; Schoolwide Programs, Consolidated Application, Parent Support Network
Sara Waring - Education Program Specialist

280-7286

Job Duties: Title III Coordinator, LEP Assessment, Consolidated Application
 
Child and Adult Nutrition - (605) 773-3413
Sandra Kangas - Supervisor

773-4746

Job Duties: Office Supervision, Management Contracts
Melissa Halling - Education Program Specialist

280-2696

Job Duties: Child & Adult Care Food Program
Marlyce Micklos - Education Program Specialist

773-3610

Job Duties: School Lunch, Breakfast & Milk Programs
Janelle Peterson - Education Program Specialist

cell: 280-4278

Job Duties: Technical Assistance
Cassandra Pope - Education Program Specialist

773-3110

Job Duties: Summer Food Service Program
Amy Richards - Education Program Specialist

773-4718

Job Duties: Team Nutrition, Education & Training
Jean Schuurmans -  Education Program Specialist

773-6026

Job Duties: School Lunch, Breakfast & Milk Programs
Elaine Scott - Education Program Specialist

773-4769

Job Duties: Food Distribution Program
Vacant - Senior Secretary

773-4353

CANS – Food Distribution Program
Shar Venjohn - Secretary

773-3413

Job Duties: All CANS programs
 

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