Christina (Tina) Nunez

Educational Technology and Resources Specialist

Christina (Tina) Nuñez is an Educational Technology & Instructional Resources Specialist with Albuquerque Public Schools and has over 21 years in education, including more than 7 years in EdTech. She designs and facilitates districtwide professional learning focused on artificial intelligence, Google Workspace for Education, Apple technology, digital creativity, student engagement, and practical classroom strategies that educators can implement immediately.

Tina is a Google Certified Educator, Trainer, Coach, and Innovator (CHI24), a Google for Education Ambassador and Champion, an Apple Certified Trainer and Apple Learning Coach, an ISTE Certified Educator, a MagicSchool AI Ambassador, and serves as a Share Captain for the New Mexico Google Educator Group (NMGEG). She also co-hosts the Innovators UnscriptED podcast, highlighting innovative educators and instructional practices from around the world.

A frequent presenter at local, regional, and national conferences, Tina is known for delivering fast-paced, engaging, and practical sessions that blend humor, real classroom experience, and immediately usable strategies. Whether presenting on AI, Google tools, gamification, digital resources, or instructional innovation, her goal is simple: help educators work smarter, engage learners more effectively, and leave every session with ideas they can use the very next day.

Sept. 12, 2026

Episode 83: Starting AI Conversation with Implementation

Steve and Sophie welcome Tina Nunez, an educational technology and instructional resource specialist with Albuquerque Public Schools, Google Certified Innovator, Apple Learning Coach, ISTE Certified Educator, MagicSchool AI Ambassador, conference speaker, and co-host of *Innovators Unscripted*. Tina traces her unconventional path into education, from earning a business management degree and working in hospitality to spending 16 years teaching fourth and fifth grade. She explains how experimentation in the classroom led to coaching and EdTech—and how stepping into that role just before the COVID-19 shutdown accelerated her learning overnight. The conversation moves beyond individual tools to examine the bigger instructional questions underneath educational technology. The group discusses why passive digital assignments deserve criticism, but argues that eliminating technology altogether also removes opportunities for accessibility, student agency, creativity, and real-world skill…

Guest: Christina (Tina) Nunez

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