Teri Christensen grew up in Orlando, Florida during the mid-1970s to early 1980s. She spent most of her summers hanging with her friends at Walt Disney World, where her dad worked as an accountant. She moved to Washington D.C. in the early 1990s where she attended Hayfield Secondary School, the same school that was the home of the movie, “Remember the Titans.” After graduating from Hayfield in 1992, she attended Brigham Young University in Provo, earning a Humanities/English Teaching Composite degree in Secondary Education.
Christensen began her teaching career at Springville Middle School in Springville, Utah, teaching seventh-grade English for one year. Moving to Phoenix, Arizona for her husband’s job, she took a break from teaching. In 1999 they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. She began working as a part-time kindergarten aide in 2006 with the Jordan School District and then a full-time special education and reading aide in the Granite School District where she stayed until 2012 when they moved to Morgan for the clean air and mountain view. She has held several jobs in Morgan School District: substitute teacher, MMS Library Aide and Reading Specialist Aide.
She returned to teaching in 2017 when she was hired at Morgan Elementary School to teach fifth grade before moving to fourth grade in 2019…