At the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Dr. Weathers teaches courses on research and evaluation. He is currently the Co-Director of EduStat University and was the previous Director and Co-Developer of the Building and Leading a Data-Driven School Improvement Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. He was previously a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, where he taught future school leaders and researchers data-driven decision-making, reading research, and the theory and practice of organizational learning.

Dr. Weathers received a Ph.D. in Education Policy and a master's degree in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked as a Research assistant at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education. His research has focused on the effects of school policy and leadership on teacher communities and parent involvement, the effects of internally generated performance and process data systems on improving organizational outcomes, and the role of policy supports in teachers' use of formative assessment practices. His current research interests include organizational learning, school and district leadership, professional learning communities, formative assessment, and data-driven decision-making.