Mr. Shay was born last millenia on Long Island, right outside the great city of New York. He has three, count them, three Master's Degrees, two in Mathematics and the third in Teaching. Mr. Shay has a paper he wrote on the mathematics properties of soap bubbles (?!!) published in the Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics and helped write textbooks for AP Calculus and AP Precalculus.

He was the first math teacher hired at CCA and is extremely proud to be a Raven and help turn this school into the amazing place it is today. 

Mr. Shay is committed to helping all student and all teachers succeed with mathematics. He was instrumental in bringing the Common Core to California, having served on the Academic Content Standards Commission in 2010 and the Mathematics Framework Committee in 2012. He speaks at local, regional and national conferences and volunteers with the California Mathematics Council - South, previously serving as the Vice President. He has been a reader and leader for the AP Calculus Exams since 2010 and was co-chair of the Test Development Committee for the AP Calculus Exams.  He has also served on the Test Development Committee for the SAT Mathematics Subject Tests, the Math section of the SAT Reasoning Test, and the Mathematics Testing and Diagnotic Program test for the UC and CSU colleges.

Some of his proudest moments teaching has been the numerous awards he has received from students, alumni and colleagues. Most recently, he was awarded the 2019 Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching from the NSF and the White House.

Besides being an accomplished mathematics teacher, Mr. Shay had a career in the performing arts as an actor, director, choreographer, singer, etc. At this point, Mr. Shay focuses is "free" time by volunteering with the mathematics community, being a dad to his Great Dane Dolly, and, most importantly, partner and sous chef to his husband.