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Educational Background
She has her MA in Special Education from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, a certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language from San Diego State University, a BA in comparative literature from Westmont College (California), and a “Diplôme d’Études Françaises du 2e degree” from the Facultés Catholiques de Lyon, France.
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Looking Forward
“For years I have hoped for and dreamed about having a dynamic Direct Instruction/Core Knowledge elementary school in southeast Colorado Springs. I count it a privilege to work with the children, parents, and staff who will be at James Irwin Charter Elementary School as we build a school where all children from all backgrounds will learn to high levels of mastery and gain confidence in their advancing skills.
We are bringing together a ‘dream team’ of passionate, caring, and incurably positive staff who will be highly trained in the science and artistry of effective teaching methods. I envision that this school will be like a teeming garden, bursting with growth and vitality, where students spread strong roots and sturdy stems to hold breadth of expanding knowledge and develop strong skills that will allow them to pursue lofty dreams and goals, supported by depth of noble character to sustain them as they become young adults.”
Background
Mrs. Berg has been involved in education for over 28 years, spanning charter school curriculum, training and administration (James Irwin Charter Schools, Cheyenne Mountain Charter Academy), teaching at UCCS in the Special Education department and supervising the Summit Scholars Reading Program, teaching French (Grades 4-12), teaching English as a Second Language to children and adults (in France and in San Diego), working as a research assistant at the Xerox PARC on various projects like memory development and evaluating student errors in subtraction, doing private tutoring, and as a teaching assistant in college for the calculus classes. She has worked with public schools, a private school in France, a home school association, and she and her husband were on staff with The Navigators working with university students at Stanford University and in France. She has also home-schooled her own three children at different times. Her two sons are currently in college (UCCS and Hillsdale College) and her daughter is a student at James Irwin Charter High School.