Kevin Norris

Kevin Norris currently teaches English and coaches soccer at Smoky Mountain High School in Jackson County. He spent the prior ten years at Cherokee High School as a gifted education specialist and theatre arts teacher. He taught previously at Western Carolina University, Tulane University, and North Carolina State University. He is especially grateful to Laura Pennix, Bo Taylor, and Walker Calhoun for their generosity and patience in attempting to teach him the Cherokee language. Despite their attempts, he is afraid that, as they say, he still “speaks like a white man, and that is not a reflection of their teaching talents but of his incredibly thick skull.”