{"id":204372,"date":"2026-03-24T20:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204372\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:00:27","slug":"sailfuture-teacher-takes-students-on-sailing-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204372\/","title":{"rendered":"SailFuture teacher takes students on sailing adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2013 Tony Monceaux is the maritime instructor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sailfuture.org\/academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SailFuture Academy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The school offers academic programs to teenagers in foster care and at-risk youth. Monceaux, who is also known as Captain Tony, has been teaching for six years.<\/p>\n<p>Born and raised in St. Petersburg, Monceaux was a charter captain before becoming a teacher.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>Tony Monceaux is the maritime instructor at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sailfuture.org\/academy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SailFuture Academy<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>Monceaux teaches eighth\u00a0through 12th\u00a0graders<br \/>\n<br \/>Would you like to nominate an A+ Teacher?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/community\/a-plus-teachers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting to share something that I have a passion about \u2014 I enjoy inspiring students,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I enjoy watching them learn something that is difficult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Monceaux teaches eighth\u00a0through 12th\u00a0graders everything they need to know about sailing as they work toward earning their boating license.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are rotating through all the positions on the boat so that each student gets a chance to experience what that position is responsible for,\u201d Monceaux said. \u201cI love that the students have a chance to experience all of these things that are here for us on the coast and in the water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaptain Tony is an amazing teacher. He is very patient,\u201d said SailFuture Academy student Audrey Myers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like the fact that he takes us places, even if I get drenched,\u201d said Lucy Ashe, another student.<\/p>\n<p>Laura\u00a0Manke, the assistant head of the school, nominated\u00a0Monceaux as an A+ Teacher. Manke herself was featured as an A+ Teacher in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know how much that meant to me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And I think that it\u2019s something really special and so for him to be able to be honored, that was a wonderful feeling.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2013 Tony Monceaux is the maritime instructor at SailFuture Academy. The school offers academic programs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[12422,12421,274,113,55104,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278,835],"class_list":["post-204372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-a-plus-teachers","tag-app-a-teachers","tag-app-top-stories","tag-education","tag-jorja-roman","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}