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Sarasota County Schools Superintendent Lori White has named a North Port High School assistant principal as the next leader of Tuttle Elementary School in Sarasota. Tomas Dinverno, 40, is scheduled to begin July 1 as principal of the school, pending School Board approval, a news release points out. He will succeed Tom Buchanan, who has been principal of Tuttle since 2004. The school has 670 students, the release adds. Dinverno has worked at North Port High since 2003, when he was hired by the Sarasota County School District, the release notes. He was a Spanish teacher, data coach, test coor dinator and World Languages Department chairman before becoming an administrative intern in the 200910 school year, it notes. In the 201011 school year, he began serv ing as an assistant principal, it says. "In that role he developed and drafted the School Improvement Plan; led the science, technol ogy, engineering and math (STEM) initiative; and served as an instructional technology facilitator and a professional development coordinator," the release points out. "I'm excited about the chance to work with the Tuttle Elementary community," said Dinverno in the release. Before joining the school dis trict, Dinverno taught Spanish and outdoor education at Viewpoint School in Calabasas, CA. Prior to that, the release continues, he was a Spanish teacher, Electives Department chairman and World Languages Department chairman at Thunder Ridge Middle School in Denver. He holds a master's degree in educational lead ership from the University of South Florida and a bachelor's degree in Spanish from the University of Colorado. "Dinverno was recently selected by the Gulf Coast Community Foundation as one of 25 participants in the 2014 class of Gulf Coast Leadership Institute, a group of aspiring and veteran community leaders who will take part in a comprehensive leadershiptraining program," the release notes. The participants were selected from more than 60 applicants "to represent the diversity of the region's pub lic, private and independent sectors," it says. Dinverno and his wife, Sudi, have one son, Van, 5. Tuttle Elementary School is located at 2863 Eighth St. in Sarasota. NEXT PRINCIPAL NAMED FOR TUTTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Tomas Dinverno/Contributed photo Sarasota News Leader April 11, 2014 Page 76