Danbury Public Schools have appointed a new Director of Student Services.  Kelly Truchsess has been named the district’s director of Student Services.  As director, she will oversee the district’s special education programming, in addition to the provision of related services by school psychologists, social workers, counselors, and occupational and physical therapists. 

Truchsess received both a bachelor’s degree in elementary and special education and master’s degree in special education from UConn, and she earned an administrator’s certificate from Sacred Heart University. 

She joined the Danbury School District in 2005 as an elementary special education teacher.  In 2012, Truchsess assumed the role of supervisor of secondary special education, overseeing the provision of student services specifically in the middle schools, Danbury High School and the Alternative Center for Excellence.