Dr. Connie Melder

Dr. Connie Melder earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education at LSU in 1977, a master’s in special education at NSU in 1984 and a doctoral degree in curriculum in and instruction at Louisiana Tech in 2014.  She began her career as a classroom teacher and hearing impaired program coordinator for the Natchitoches Parish School Board from 1977-85.  She was supervising teacher at NSU Middle Lab from 1985-2001 and joined the faculty at NSU in 2001.

Since 2007, Melder has been director of field experience and clinical practice and an associate professor with NSU’s Gallaspy College of Education and Human Development. Melder and her husband Sonny have three children and three grandchildren.