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Spotlight on Mr. Berger Daniel John Berger was born on 26 May 1975 (he suggests you do the math if you’d like to know his age) and grew up in the small town of Versailles, Ohio, approximately 150 miles NNE of the middle of nowhere. Throughout school, he was heavily involved in both the academic and the music programs offered in the Versailles schools. Particularly during high school, Mr. Berger often found himself surrounded by other students, helping them to understand their calculus, physics and chemistry homework before school. It would be a couple more years before he realized what exactly this meant. Mr. Berger graduated valedictorian in 1993 and left home to study in the big city (but only compared to Versailles) of Toledo, Ohio, at the University of Toledo. His revolving cast of majors included Mathematics, Engineering Physics, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. It was again in helping others to understand their math both as a tutor for UT’s Office of Accessibility as well as helping friends with their calculus that a realization came to Mr. Berger: he had a knack for explaining material, money was overrated and he wanted to be a teacher! So, he finished his last two years as a secondary education major (adding an extra year for all the changes of major) and graduated from the University of Toledo with a Bachelor’s of Education (with a specialty of Secondary Mathematics) in 1998. His teaching career started at a public school in Toledo teaching eighth grade math on a teaching team that dealt with a number of students identified SBH (severe behavioral handicap) along with the rest of the eighth graders. Classes were large and support was little, and at the end of a long and difficult year, Mr. Berger resigned and decided to make a change of venue, not just school, but city as well. During the summer of 1999, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. As luck would have it, Cardinal Pacelli still needed a junior high math teacher for the upcoming school year in early July when Mr. Berger moved to Cincinnati. After an interview with Mary Lottenville and a job offer, he turned down the other offer on the table (in the Oaks vocational schools) and came to work for Cardinal Pacelli School! Since beginning his tenure at Cardinal Pacelli, Mr. Berger has advanced his education in a myriad of ways. Besides the normal workshops and inservices from which all the Pacelli teachers are able to benefit, he has also earned the first and second level certifications in cathechesis and is only one class away from permanent certification. At the deadline for this article, he is a mere two classes and a completed thesis from his Masters of Secondary Education at Xavier University (to be finished this summer). He has also discovered a love of philosophy and has taken two courses at the University of Cincinnati and two more at Xavier on subjects including philosophical anthropology, the theory of knowledge, ethics and ancient Greek philosophy. The habitual student, Mr. Berger hopes to continue taking classes in philosophy as well as in literature and teaching reading/literature in the future. In the classroom, Mr. Berger tries to keep a sense of humour and fun about math while still pushing the students to gain the most knowledge and understanding they can. In his third year at Cardinal Pacelli, with much support from the administration and parents, he led a reform of the math program at Cardinal Pacelli School and moved the eighth grade math from a more general course to an algebra course for all students. In his sixth year, an accelerated group was added to the algebra course for students who were motivated and able to push farther ahead in their mathematical explorations. In his religion classes, Mr. Berger tries to balance knowledge with spirituality, studying Church history and understanding Catholic teachings while also introducing students to prayer forms such as Taize and lectio divina. A particularly moving liturgy that Mr. Berger plans along with Mrs. Knight and the eighth grade class, is the Holy Thursday stations each year which really set the tone for a prayerful and meaningful Triduum. Besides his work in the classroom teaching seventh and eighth grade math and eighth grade religion, Mr. Berger has been able to use his other talents to enhance the experience of Pacelli students. He has been assistant director and a pit musician for a number of Cardinal Pacelli musicals. He sings and plays guitar accompaniment for liturgical music practices for seventh and eighth grade and sometimes at mass on Tuesday mornings and at all school masses. This year, Mr. Berger has joined Ms. Framptom in leading the music at the new 5:00 pm Sunday evening mass for Our Lord Christ the King. When he’s not teaching or taking classes, Mr. Berger enjoys participating in community theatre productions, playing guitar in his band, walking and playing with his dog, reading (philosophy or fiction), playing racquetball and running (poorly). He and his longtime girlfriend became engaged over Christmas, and both are looking forward to preparing and celebrating a wedding in the fairly near future! As next year is Mr. Berger’s tenth year at Cardinal Pacelli, he has been fondly remembering all the students he has taught, the good and the challenging moments, good times with colleagues and the way in which he has grown as both a person and as an instructor over the years at Cardinal Pacelli School and in Cincinnati. He looks forward to many more opportunities to touch the lives of students as they touch his as well.
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