About the Department of Education
Mission Statement: The South Dakota Department of Education is dedicated to enhancing learning through leadership and service.
The South Dakota Department of Education's aspiration is for all students to leave the K-12 education system College, Career and Life Ready.
South Dakota Department of Education, 800 Governors Drive, Pierre, SD 57501
For general inquiries, email doe@state.sd.us or call (605) 773-3134.
For media inquiries, email Nancy Van Der Weide.
Division of Accreditation and Certification - (605) 773-3134
For questions relating to certification, e-mail: certification@state.sd.us
For questions relating to accreditation, email: doeaccred@state.sd.us
For questions relating to the personnel record form, email: prf@state.sd.us
Division of Child and Adult Nutrition Services - (605) 773-3413
- DOE.schoollunch@state.sd.us
- DOE.icanhelp@state.sd.us
- Alan Haarstad - Division Director
- Janelle Peterson - Farm to School Program
- Quynn Verhelst - Senior Secretary
- Mikayla Hardy - Office Administrator
- Amanda Feist - Programs Assistant Director
- Melissa Cuka - Program Specialist
- Susan Goeden - Program Specialist
- Karen Jones - Program Specialist
- Diana Leiseth - Program Specialist
- Rebecca Rasmussen - Program Specialist
- Darian Schaefer - Program Specialist
- Andrea Theilen - Assistant Director
- Diana Webb - Program Specialist
Division of College, Career and Student Success - (605) 773-3423
Office of Career and Technical Education
- Amy Miller - Assistant Director
- Jamie Boettcher - Program Specialist
- Melissa Ettswold - Program Specialist
- Jane Gubrud - Program Specialist
- Tracia Rentsch - Program Specialist
- Amber Rost - Program Specialist
- Kim Roth - Grants and Data Specialist
- Mercedes Snedeker - Program Specialist
Division of Data and Research - (605) 773-3134
- Joe Moran - Director
- Michael Ochoa - Data Architecture Manager
- Paris Cabrera - Postsecondary Data Architecture Coordinator
- Jack McCloud - K-12 Data Architecture Coordinator
Division of Finance and Management - (605) 773-3248
- Cody Stoeser - Division Director
- Lisa Rozell - Deputy Director
- Rochelle Kenzy - Fiscal Monitoring Specialist
- Michelle Kronberg - Contract and Budget Analyst
- Olivia Waggoner - Contract Manager
- Dawson Huber - Accountant Team Leader
- Erin Boring - Accounting Assistant
- Bethany Langenbau - Accountant
- Ian Farnsworth - Accountant
- Holly Phillips - Accountant
- Chris Rae - Accountant Assistant
Division of Learning and Instruction - (605) 773-3134
Office of Standards, Learning and Leadership
- Vera Van Winkle - Administrator
- Kelly Royer -Assistant Administrator
- Melissa Bothun - Program Specialist
- Allison Englund - Program Specialist
- Patti Lager - Program Specialist
- Hayley Miller - Program Specialist
- Hope Reichenbach- Program Specialist
- Matt Gill - Administrator
- Kasey Williams - Assistant Administrator
- Betsy Chapman - Program Specialist
- Amy Gabriel - Management Analyst
- Rebecca Frerichs - Program Specialist
- Sabrina Johnson - Program Specialist
- Barbara Unruh - Program Specialist
- Jordan Varilek - Administrator
- Yutzil Becker - Assistant Administrator
- Stephanie Cronin - Program Specialist
- Summer Eisenbraun - Program Specialist
- Ashley Holm - Program Specialist
- Jaeya Jones - Program Specialist
- Tami Kaaz - Program Specialist
- Shari Lord - Program Specialist
- Morgan Ellwein-Larson - Program Specialist
- Emily Quick - Program Specialist
Division of Special Education and Early Learning - (605) 773-3678
Office of Special Education
- Wendy Trujillo - Administrator
- MD Rezwane Sadik- Part B Data Manager
- Rebecca Cain - Implementation Specialist
- Melissa Flor - Accountability Manager
- Kelly Gilbert - Part B 619 & BDI Coordinator
- Stacy Holzbauer - Alternate Assessment Coordinator
- Lori Kwasniewski - Transition Specialist
- Beth Schiltz - Assessment & Accommodation Specialist
Dr. Joseph Graves, SD Secretary of Education