Tina Mahaney is presently the Director of Technology for Gill-Montague Regional School District in Western Massachusetts. She is a MassCUE Administrator Award recipient in 2023 and has served in the role of technology director for various schools/districts for more than 20 years. Her work as an instructional technologist began with a degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York and continued with her doctoral studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She has taught and worked as a technologist in higher education, post-secondary, vocational, and now K-12 – pursuing growth and learning in schools through the use of technology by design.