The 2022 Friend of Languages

Bonnie Arden Robb taught at the University of Delaware from 1976 until her retirement in 2014. Her fields of specialization were French literature of the eighteenth century, with special emphasis on women writers, and foreign language pedagogy.
Dr. Robb taught courses in French literature, especially literature of the Enlightenment. She also enjoyed teaching French conversation, reading and composition courses, and French for Business. As coordinator of the department’s Foreign Language Teacher Education Program for over twenty years, she regularly offered courses and practica in foreign language teaching methods, and loved working with student teachers of French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish.
Dr. Robb served as Associate Chair of the Department from 2003-2013, and as Coordinator of Foreign Language Teacher Education from 1991-2013. She served on several statewide foreign language commissions and for several years was Coordinator of Teacher Education for the College of Arts and Sciences. Most recently, her service within the department included chairing the Undergraduate and Graduate Assessment Committees and co-chairing the departmental Academic Program Review Committee. She especially enjoyed serving as a director of study abroad programs to Caen and to Paris.​

In the year and a half since her retirement, Dr. Robb has traveled frequently, helped direct a study abroad program in Denmark and Switzerland, and made a pilgrimage, walking (part of) the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain.

Director of p-12 practice, leading Ed Trust’s Equity in Motion assignment analysis work. Prior to joining Ed Trust, Tanji worked in the Office of Academic Programs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to prepare the school of education’s accreditation with the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation. Before joining Virginia Tech, Tanji worked for as a district-level literacy specialist in Charlotte–Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina, where she supported middle schools across the district to refine their literacy practices.  Additionally, as a Title I literacy coach, Tanji worked with targeted schools to improve literacy instruction for traditionally underserved students. Her career also includes elementary and middle school classroom teaching in North Carolina and New Jersey. Tanji holds a doctorate in curriculum and instruction, with an emphasis on teacher practice with high-achieving African American students, from Virginia Tech; a master’s degree in English education, with a focus on critical literacy, from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte; and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Boston College

Tanji Reed Marshall, Ph.D.

DDOE Equity Summit
​Keynote Speaker

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2020- 2021 DECTFL Teacher of the Year - Bonita Green!

Bonita Green, a High School Teacher of Spanish and DECTFL Teacher of the Year, is known for creating innovative lessons centered around increasing students’ engagement and language proficiency skills.  Her focus is to infuse culturally diverse instructional strategies and learning activities that are relevant, promote language application, and provide practice in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.  She enthusiastically strives to increase students’ skills so they can use L2 in their CTE pathway, workforce, and beyond.  After twenty-one years in the classroom, she continues to dedicate her efforts in cultivating a classroom full of compassion, empathy, and language rich instruction.

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Leslie Grahn - 2020 Friend of Languages

​Leslie Grahn has twenty-seven years of language teaching experience at the middle and high
school levels and twelve years of experience at the central office level, most recently as
Coordinator of World Languages for the Howard County Public School System in
Maryland. Leslie has been a course instructor on foreign language teaching methods and
differentiated instruction and is a frequent presenter at state, regional, and national
conferences, specializing in best practices. She facilitates workshops on the topics of student
engagement, rigor, authentic resources, assessment, core practices and differentiated
instruction. She has experience in teacher and leadership development and leads training on
instructional coaching, mentoring, leadership, and communication skills. Leslie is the co-author
of The Keys to Strategies for Language Instruction and serves on the boards of NECTFL, NADSFL
and ACTFL.