Rate My Professor Christopher Weiler

Christopher Weiler serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Elementary, Middle Level, Library & Technologies Education at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. from Temple University, an M.S. from Lehigh University, and a B.S. from Lock Haven University. Before entering higher education, Dr. Weiler was a public school teacher for 16 years, focusing on young adolescents, and is a Pennsylvania certified ESL Specialist. His teaching includes courses such as Middle Level Science Methods and Middle Level Cognitive Development.

Dr. Weiler's academic interests center on equitable and culturally sustaining pedagogies within middle level education. He co-authored "A Framework for Middle Level Curriculum: A Literature Review to Support the Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group Research Agenda," published in Education Sciences in 2024 with Steven B. Mertens, James Nagle, Stacie K. Pettit, and Amanda Wall. This synthesis reviews peer-reviewed articles from 2016 onward, organizing findings into five inquiry areas—curriculum and equity, stakeholder power in development, implementation, and accountability, goals and purposes, teacher learning and enactment, and young adolescent well-being and experiences—and proposes 26 research questions to advance the field. Additional works include "Preparing Pre-Service Teachers to Sustain Justice-Oriented Action." Dr. Weiler contributes to university governance as Co-Chair of the Institutional Climate Committee for the REVEALS Equity Project, a supplemental member of the Justice Equity Diversity Inclusion Commission appointed by the University President, and a faculty representative on the Steering Committee for Middle States Accreditation. He has co-presented workshops on inclusive teaching and successful first-day strategies at Kutztown University's Center for the Enhancement of Teaching.