Beatrix Preusse Burr

Affiliation

Fairfax County Public School

Biography

Beatrix Preusse-Burr is a leader in dual language immersion and global education, recognized for her exceptional contributions to language learning and intercultural competence development. She has been an educator for over 30 years and her teaching experience spans from early elementary to the university levels. She currently serves as World Language Specialist for Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), the largest school division in Virginia with approximately 181,000 students, where she is leading the division’s K-12 dual language immersion (DLI), Foreign Language in the Elementary Schools (FLES) programs, as well as the Global Classroom Project’s Language Acquisition and Intercultural Competence pathway. She supports IB, Dual Enrollment, Advanced Placement and world language programs in American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.