With each new year, we welcome a group of new teachers. Across our campus, we have 18 new faces to start off our 2018-2019 school year. These new teachers come from all over with all different backgrounds just like the many new students that we get every year.

The new teachers are as follows: Timothy Barker, Science; Trevor George, Social Studies; Norman Quick, PE; Brian Gennarelli, Social Studies; Krysten Elliott, English; Marlette Watson, Agricultural; Tim Karst, Social Studies; Eugene Dougherty, Social Studies; Donald Sapp, Science; John D’Egidio, Math; Nichole David, ESOL; Rose Schneider, English; Connor Cooper, English; Jeff Layton, Science; Camille Edwards, English; Matthew Perdue, Social Studies; Stephanie Tharpe, English; Mike Gallagher, LTS – SPED.

After finding out more about them, we have quite a diverse group.

Rose Schneider moved here from Northwest Indiana, and she has taught a variety of English classes at her previous schools. She is eager to be at a school this large because her previous school only had 540 students and 38 teachers.

Camille Edwards is also an English teacher, and she has lived in Myrtle Beach since 2016. Edwards heard nothing but good things about our school since she moved here, so she was excited to check it out.

“When I finally had the pleasure of visiting the Carolina Forest High School, I was so intrigued by the open campus. I knew right away that CFHS was the place for me,” commented Edwards.

John D’Egidio has been a teacher and administrator at five different schools during his 31 years in education. He moved here from Youngstown, Ohio because of his wife’s job, and he is excited to be at a new school!

Marlette Watson, from Tabor City, North Carolina, has been teaching 28 years at two different schools. She wanted to become an agriculture teacher because she grew up on a farm, and her father taught it as well.  

Jeffrey Layton has lived in South Carolina for seven years, but he has been teaching at Coastal Leadership Academy. Before teaching, he served our country in the US Military.

Layton shared, “I have always been a doer and not a watcher. I joined the military to earn my privilege of living in the country and started teaching to better adults in our community,”

Welcome, new teachers! We are very excited to have such an awesome group of people added to our Panther family. Have a great school year!