Melanie Ritter has been named the new program director at Triad Alternative School effective July 30. A seasoned educator and administrator in Sarasota County for 20 years, Ritter joins the Triad Alternative program from Venice High School where she served as assistant principal since 2015. Before her role at Venice High School, Ritter was an assistant principal at Riverview High School from 2005–15 where she focused on STEM courses for students, implemented and coordinated the International Baccalaureate Career Program and executed the development of IEP’s and Behavior Plans to drive instruction. Before this administrative role, she was an assistant principal at Heron Creek Middle School from 2003–05 and had a special assignment as an assistant principal at Phoenix Academy where she designed new discipline policies and procedures and interviewed for staff positions based on unique student needs.

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