Tamara Fisher is the K-12 Gifted Education Specialist for the Polson School District on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana. She has 23 years of experience teaching gifted youth; served for ten years on the Executive Board of the Montana Association for Gifted and Talented Education, including a term as President; blogged for six years about gifted education and gifted students for the national online magazine “Education Week Teacher;” earned a Masters degree in Gifted Education in 2004 (UConn); and is co-author (together with Karen Isaacson) of “Intelligent Life in the Classroom: Smart Kids and Their Teachers” (winner of the 2007 TAGT Legacy Book Award and a 2008 “Learning Magazine” Teacher’s Choice Award). She has presented numerous times on various gifted-related topics for local, county, tribal, state, regional, national, and international audiences, including teachers, parents, students, administrators, pre-service teachers, and the general public. She was selected as the 2001 Polson Teacher of the Year and the 2013 Montana AGATE Educator of the Year. While earning her B.S. in Elementary Education from Montana State University-Bozeman, where she was an Honors Scholar, Tamara co-created a volunteer mentor program matching college Honors students with gifted kids in the local schools. Over 20 years later, the “Mentor GATE” program is still running today, and some of the volunteers have been Tamara’s former students!