Kristin Boone has loved being a middle school Spanish teacher at Forsyth Country Day School for eighteen years. She is passionate about Spanish, her students, and teaching language acquisition using comprehensible input. About six years ago she began to incorporate novels and comprehensible input into her classroom and has seen first-hand the significant impact CI has had on her students.  She is a firm believer in motivating students by incorporating autonomy, competence, and relatedness into her classes. Creating One Word Images has been a slam dunk for motivating her students to acquire language and she loves to share what she is learning with other teachers.  When she is not at school, Kristin enjoys her small photography business, quilting, and spending time with her husband, grown children, and grandchildren.

Christen Campbell is a French teacher at Chapel Hill High School in North Carolina where she has been teaching for 15 years.  She holds a M.A. in French from Middlebury College and is a National Board Certified Teacher.  In 2021, she was selected as the Teacher of the Year for the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina, a finalist for her district Teacher of the Year, and the 2015 AATF North Carolina Teacher of the Year. She co-authored a chapter in How We Take Action: Social Justice in Pre K-16 Language Classrooms (2023), and contributed to The Anti-Racist World Language Classroom (Hines-Gaither, K. & Accilien, C. 2022). She consults for College Board, Vista Higher Learning, and presents annually at ACTFL’s national convention.

Sunny Cordray, a native of Winston-Salem, is an FCDS alumna who earned her bachelor’s degree in Spanish with a minor in education from Wake Forest University and a master’s degree in Spanish from UNC-Greensboro. She has been a presenter at FLANC many times and treasures the opportunity to collaborate with other World Language teachers.  Sunny enjoys traveling and has studied abroad and traveled to Spain, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico. Sunny is an 18-year veteran teacher of both public and private schools and also coaches volleyball and middle school lacrosse. When she is not in the classroom, she enjoys spending time with her husband, 3 children, and her yellow Labrador, June.

Matt Cummings After ten years as a Spanish instructor, I have come to believe that the most important characteristic of an effective educator is the ability and desire to build genuine relationships with students. My students must feel valued and understand why what I want to teach them is important. I completed my undergraduate degree from Gardner-Webb University in 2013 and will complete my M.A. in Foreign Language Education at UNC Charlotte in May 2023. I live in Matthews, NC with my wife and three year-old son.

I spent two decades involved in a cross-cultural ministry in the Republic of Panama, where I learned two distinct languages and saw how intertwined culture is in the language-learning process. When we returned to live in the U.S., I began teaching Spanish. I love introducing my students to different cultures around the Spanish-speaking world. As the second most spoken language, it is used in many different cultural contexts. My goal is to train global citizens who truly care about communicating in a culturally relevant way.