Chris Buttimer

Chris Buttimer was a postdoctoral associate and educational researcher with the Teaching Systems Lab. His research focused on supporting teachers to incorporate equity teaching, including through the use of MOOCs, blended learning spaces, and action research. Chris is also a former middle school ELA teacher in the Cambridge (MA) Public Schools, and he has extensive experience providing professional development to teachers in MA and GA around adolescent literacy, socioemotional learning, and youth participatory action research. He holds an Ed.D. and Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an M.Ed. from UMass Boston, and a B.A. from Wake Forest University.

Companies

• Teaching Fellowship Specialist Boston Public Schools (2022)
• Consultant/Digital Classrooms Observations Mentor Boston Public Schools - Office of Recruitment, Cultivation, & Diversity (2021 — 2022)
• Postdoctoral Researcher Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2019 — 2022)
• Co-instructor Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2020 — 2020)
• Consultant/PD Provider Waltham Public Schools (2019 — 2020)
• Adjunct Lecturer/Visiting Assistant Professor Salem State University (2019 — 2019)
• Adjunct Lecturer in Education Brown University (2018 — 2019)
• Researcher NYU/Steinhardt Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools (2018 — 2019)
• Teaching Fellow Harvard University Graduate School of Education (2011 — 2019)