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Sarasota News Leader May 17, 2013 Page 53 NEW PRINCIPAL NAMED FOR BAY HAVEN SCHOOL OF BASICS PLUS Sarasota County School District Superintendent Lori White has announced that she will recommend Chad A. Erickson of Altoona, WI, to succeed Betsy Asheim as principal of Bay Haven School of Basics Plus in Sarasota. The appointment is scheduled to be considered by the School Board during its May 21 meeting. Erickson, 40, has served as principal of Sherman Elementary School in the Eau Claire Area School District in Wisconsin since 2001, a news release notes. Sherman was named one of the six Healthiest Schools in America by Family Circle Magazine in 2009. He also has served as a fourth-grade teacher, a high school coach and a middle school assistant principal, the release adds. He holds a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in educational administration from the University of Wisconsin. Additionally, he has studied educational policy at the University of Minnesota and astrophysics methodology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the release notes. "I am extremely excited to begin working with the Bay Haven staff and to be part of the high achieving School District of Sarasota County," Chad Erickson/Contributed photo Erickson said in the release. "My wife and three discipline and contracts for parents, students young children are equally as excited to make and staff, the release notes. the transition from Wisconsin to Florida." Asheim has served as Bay Haven principal Bay Haven School of Basics Plus is a magnet since 2007. She announced her retirement school designated as a national Blue Ribbon earlier this year to pursue other professional School and a state Five Star School, the reand personal opportunities, the release says. lease adds. It is Sarasota County's only magnet elementary school. The program empha- Erickson is scheduled to assume his duties at sizes a back-to-basics curriculum with strong Bay Haven on July 1.