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Connie Ludwig
Connie Ludwig is familiar with Paynesville Area Elementary School, where she is a new kindergarten teacher this fall. Ludwig spent six months at PAES last year as a long-term substitute, and she also did her student teaching at PAES the year before.

Ludwig - who has lived in the Paynesville area for ten years - said she has always wanted to be a teacher and enrolled at St. Cloud State University after attending high school in Paynesville and graduating from Pequot Lakes (where she grew up, except for a year and a half in Paynesville. She got married and had kids, though, which sidetracked her plans to become a teacher. Among her vocations were owning a restaurant and owning and operating a daycare.

When she returned to SCSU, Ludwig still wanted to become a teacher. She student taught at PAES in the 2003-04 school year (with Colleen Pelton in kindergarten and Jane Ruprecht in second grade). She graduated from SCSU in May 2004 and spent last year as a substitute teacher, including that six-month job at PAES.

Ludwig and her husband, Dan, live on a hobby farm by Roscoe. She enjoys fishing, gardening, doing crafts, and spending time with her four boys.