Dr. Melissa R Schaller

As the Executive Director of Student Services for Intermediate School District 917, Melissa is responsible for oversight of the district's departments of special education, teaching and learning, and social/emotional learning and support. She supervises the assistant directors/principals and principal for the district. Melissa has experience as a director of special education in a single district in greater Minnesota as well as a special education teacher in metro area school districts. She has her Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development from the University of Minnesota. Melissa has served many state level organizations in the field of education including the Minnesota Administrators for Special Education (MASE) and the Minnesota Council for Exceptional Children (MN CEC). Melissa currently serves as a governor appointee representing directors of special education on the Board of School Administrators (BOSA) as well as the special education component representative for the metro area on the Minnesota Association of School Administrators (MASA) board of directors and the Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) representative for the MASE board of directors. Melissa has been with ISD 917 since 2008.