IB Diploma Programme English B (FE2020)

Alla Chvostova is an IB DP English B teacher at Šiaulių Didždvario gimnazija, where she has taught since 2014. She has also been the school’s MYP Coordinator since 2023. Alla has been an IB DP English B HL examiner since 2019, examining the Individual Oral and, more recently, Paper 1. She co-authored Kognity’s IB DP English B book.

Adrienne Grant is Humanities Guide at Hakuba International School. She previously worked at the International School of Panama as Theory of Knowledge Coordinator and as a TOK and English teacher. Before that, she was Head of English, IB TOK teacher, and English teacher at Internationella Engelska Skolan. Adrienne contributed to Kognity’s IB DP English B textbook.

Veronica Santocildes has more than 20 years’ experience teaching IB DP and MYP Language and Literature in Argentina and Belgium. She has been an IB DP English Language and Literature examiner since 2018, and more recently an IB MYP Programme Leader and DP/MYP workshop leader. Veronica previously taught IB DP and MYP English at Ecole Internationale Montgomery-Bruxelles, and IGCSE and AS Language and Literature at Wellspring School. For Kognity, she authored English B subtopics and exam-style questions, and designed and delivered online webinars.

Michelle Ratering has been an IB Assistant Examiner since 2015, marking English B HL Paper 2 and, since the 2019 revision, Paper 1. She joined the Theory of Knowledge examining team in 2021, marking the TOK Essay. Michelle previously taught IB Literature HL and Theory of Knowledge and was IB DP Coordinator at Adrian High School. For Kognity, she has worked as a content author and item developer, and as a feedback handler for the English B textbook. She is currently a doctoral student at the University of Michigan.