Please welcome our new 5th grade literacy/social studies teacher, Will Norton. He graduated from Mount Mercy College. He decided to go into teaching because he always enjoyed working with kids. An opportunity in high school to help with the basketball youth camp was when he first thought teaching might be a good option. He has taught for 16 years at a variety of different grade levels ranging from 2nd-8th. He chose to work at a middle school because middle school is an influential time and he feels like teachers can have a significant impact on student success and he loves to see kids grow.
He’s been married for 11 years and has a 1 year old daughter. He also coaches volleyball at Cedar Rapids Jefferson High School. He grew up on a dairy farm and he show cows at the Iowa State Fair.