Dr. B Busselle is an educational researcher with over 25 years of experience working in and with K–12 schools. Early in her career, she fell in love with bilingual education as a classroom teacher at Ecole Bilingue in Berkeley. She left the classroom to study teaching and learning at Stanford University, where she earned a PhD in curriculum and teacher education, with a focus on STEM. As a researcher and evaluator, B works at the nexus of practice and research, studying adult professional learning in the contexts of classrooms and corporate settings. She works with local, state, and federal agencies to improve educational outcomes, particularly in under-resourced and historically marginalized communities. Her current work focuses on the role of technology in teaching and learning in a post-pandemic, digital landscape.

When it came time to choose a school for her own children, she enrolled them in La Scuola, an Italian-immersion school in San Francisco, where she discovered and fell in love with IB teaching and learning. When she and her husband moved to Oakland, EBI was an easy choice for kindergarten. Their recently graduated twins were students at EBI for nine years, and they are passionate about the Spanish-language IB curriculum, mission, and wonderful community of EBI. B has served as a classroom representative and co-president of EBIPA and is excited for a new chapter of building the EBI community as Chair of the Board.