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Featured Student Work

Civic Engagement: Student Protests

Student organizers, Bella Wells-Fried, 10th, and Kaiya Nilsson, 9th, led Odyssey 4th-12th grade students and area schools Hangar Hall and French Broad Academy, in a march from campus to Pack Square on Friday, April 20th. There they met with Read More...

Odyssey High School students produce LGBTQ rights film “Not a Choice”

During our Mini-Mester, a two week break from academic classes in which students dive into independent study and immersive collaborative projects, high school students worked in four teams to produce four unique films inspired by “The greatness of a Read More...

First Semester Projects

Each year at Odyssey, students spend time studying a topic of their choice in an independent study.


High School Teachers

2017-18 High School Faculty

Pictured (from top left): Michele Tornio Hower, dance; Melanie Wester, drama; Melissa Myers, Spanish II; Paul Forrest, geometry; Jeff Wilson, discrete math; River Guerguerian, Read More...

Gabe Johnson

High School Homeroom & English Teacher Gabriel Johnson completed a B.F.A in Literature at UNC-A in 2001. As a young man, Gabriel pursued his Read More...

Andrew Rabin

High School Homeroom & Science Teacher Andrew Rabin has recently moved to Asheville from Boston. He has taught high school science since 2001. In Read More...

Ellen Ray

High School Homeroom & Social Studies Teacher Ellen is thrilled to bring her passion for history, philosophy, literature, and politics to the Odyssey community. Read More...

Keith Knox

High School Social Design Teacher Keith Knox is the descendant of many hard-working ancestors who made Asheville and surrounding areas their home. He has Read More...

Jeff Wilson

High School Math Teacher Jeff Wilson is an Asheville native and loves the mountains of WNC. A graduate of TC Roberson High School, he Read More...

Paul Forrest

Fifth and Sixth Grade Homeroom, Math & Language Arts Teacher Paul grew up in Atlanta and graduated from the Paideia School before attending Emory Read More...

Kristin Erhard

High School Spanish Teacher Kristin is delighted to be returning to teach High School Spanish I at Odyssey for the 2017-18 school year. After Read More...

Melissa Myers

High School Spanish Teacher Melissa has been teaching Spanish for over nine years at the college and high school level. While she has happily Read More...

Mallory Nuckols

Visual Design Teacher Mallory Nuckols grew up in Central Virginia and moved to Asheville, NC in 2009 where she attended Warren Wilson College, receiving Read More...

River Guerguerian

Music Director and Teacher River brings to Odyssey his rich and extensive experience as a multi-percussionist, composer, and educator. Born in Montreal, Canada to Read More...

Shalene Hill

PreK-12 Music Teacher Summer Swim Instructor Shalene comes to us from an eclectic background in music, teaching, performance, and fitness instruction. She brings both music Read More...

Melanie Wester

High School Drama Teacher Melanie worked in theatre and film for fourteen years before becoming a mom, and came out of retirement seven years Read More...

Michele Torino Hower

K-12 Dance Teacher In pursuit of an expressive and embodied life, Michele has lived, practiced and performed in New Hampshire, Boston, Albuquerque, New York Read More...

Lydia Hearne

Preschool Team Teacher & Ceramics Instructor Lydia Hearne teaches in the pre-kindergarten class at Odyssey and also offers middle and high school ceramics classes. Read More...

Nicholas Rake

Nicholas Rake moved to Asheville from Southeastern Ohio in 2004. For the last 5 years, he has been freelancing in IT and has worked Read More...

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