Spring 2013 Magazine Page 35

PRING

2013

First grade teacher, Gaye Whitecage was chosen as Gulf Coast Family

Magazine's Teacher of the Month. Mrs. Whitecage was chosen out

of 650 teachers to be featured in their November edition. Parents

and students wrote to the magazine to nominate her.

Shorecrest Pilots First Coursera Course in the Upper Division

Shorecrest high school students in AP Psychology have enrolled in the Cal Tech Coursera
course titled "Drugs and the Brain." Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company that
partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take,
for free. AP Psychology teacher, Dr. Hamilton, is allowing students to explore the course
in structured ways through her AP curriculum and independently for Cal Tech certificates
of course completion.

"I am excited to pair the AP Psychology course with the Cal Tech, Drugs and the Brain
course. The advanced information will be an asset to the AP curriculum, especially in
the areas of neuroscience, altered states of consciousness, abnormal psychology and
therapies. We will have access to world-class professors and up-to-date research."

-- Pam Hamilton

Bill Leavengood's '78 short play,
Day of the Onondaga, was selected
to be recorded before a live
audience on Januray 21 for later
radio broadcast on WMNF.

Michael McCarthy has released his latest CD, "You're Still You", which is
available on iTunes & CD Baby (www.cdbaby.com/cd/michaelmcarthy.)
This compilation of 14 tracks joins
Michael's previous recordings
"Broadway" and "Living For The
Moment" also available on iTunes
and CD Baby. Michael is working

once again on
the Upper
Division Spring
Musical, "The
Music Man"
which will be
performed
April 18-20.

Upper Division science teacher, Lisa

Peck, named a new species of box

jelly, "Tamoya Ohboya." The Tamoya

is a very rare animal with only about

60 sightings throughout the

Caribbean, most of them on Bonaire.

Tamoya was voted by IISE as the

2012 Top Ten New Species out of

18,000, and was also voted Top 100

New Species of the century and will

be featured in a coffee table book.