Christina (Teena) Flesher is a clinical associate professor and a Division Strategist at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. She worked as a gifted education specialist and has taught regular elementary and gifted students since 1997. Her background and research interests are gifted education, higher level thinking skills, and differentiation in the classroom. She has presented at several local, national, and international conferences and workshops. She has been educating undergraduate and graduate-level students at the college level in multiple programs of study since 2003. She has instructed many different courses within the Teachers College, including structured English immersion, language and literacy, children's literature, child and adolescent development, science in the elementary classrooms, and several of the student teaching courses. Her research topics include gifted education, differentiated instruction, and exposing students to higher levels of cognition.