  {"id":12540,"date":"2012-12-11T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T00:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=12540"},"modified":"2021-12-03T16:29:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T02:29:10","slug":"kathleen-berg-named-crdg-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/12\/11\/kathleen-berg-named-crdg-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathleen Berg named <abbr title=\"Curriculum Research and Development Group\">CRDG<\/abbr> director"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/berg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/berg.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/berg-192x260.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kathleen Berg<\/strong> has been named the new director of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa College of Education&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/crdg\/welcome\/about.html\">Curriculum Research and Development Group<\/a>. Berg has been an educator and researcher for more than 35 years, serving in a variety of roles at <a href=\"https:\/\/coe.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Education<\/a>, <abbr>CRDG<\/abbr> and University Laboratory School.<\/p>\n<p>Associate director at <abbr>CRDG<\/abbr> for nine years, Berg holds a doctorate in educational psychology and has been teaching students at all grade levels and conducting research and evaluation for much of her career.<\/p>\n<p>Berg&#8217;s experience includes project management, mathematics teaching and curriculum development at <abbr>CRDG<\/abbr> as well as teacher education and research as faculty with the Masters of Education in Teaching Program. She has been the principal investigator, director, or co-director of a number of projects at <abbr>CRDG<\/abbr>, including the middle school project at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universitylaboratoryschool.org\/\">University Laboratory School<\/a> and several externally funded projects in K&#8211;12 mathematics curriculum development and school safety.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Berg was appointed as the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> State Commissioner for the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and currently serves as chair of the national commissioner. She retired in 2009 as a brigadier general in the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Air National Guard where she served as a traditional, part-time guard member for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are honored to have Kathy in this new role, and I am thrilled that she has agreed to take on this important and challenging task in the College of Education. The work of <abbr>CRDG<\/abbr> is vital to improving education in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>, one of five priorities we are focusing on as we continue to build capacity within the college&rdquo; said College of Education Dean <strong>Donald Young<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<em>Adapted from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=5473\"><abbr>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M&#257;noa news release<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M\u0101noa College of Education names Kathleen Berg named new Curriculum Research and Development Group director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,28,29],"tags":[95,125,9],"class_list":["post-12540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative","category-governance","category-people","tag-college-of-education","tag-curriculum-research-and-development-group","tag-uh-manoa","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12540"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152688,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12540\/revisions\/152688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}