{"id":50897,"date":"2023-05-25T07:47:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T11:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=50897"},"modified":"2023-05-25T08:23:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T12:23:14","slug":"celebration-event-brings-butterfield-fellows-cohort-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/celebration-event-brings-butterfield-fellows-cohort-to-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration event brings Butterfield Fellows cohort to campus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Butterfield Fellows, from left: Tamblynn Mauldin, Apison Elementary; Dr. Krysta Murillo, UTC School of Education; Emily Brace, Hardy Elementary; Shannon Stidham, Woodmore Elementary; Sarah Rivkin, Brown Academy; Catherine Casselman, Eastside Elementary; David Jackson, Brown Middle School; Jennifer Burnette, East Ridge Elementary; Annie Jernigan, Hixson High School; Rachel Burgess, Orchard Knob Middle School; and Chandler Davenport, The Howard School. Not pictured: Kyle Carrasco, STEM School. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga School of Education held a dinner and reception on May 23 to congratulate the 2023-2024 Butterfield Fellows, a group of local educators selected for their\u202fexemplary classroom management practices\u202fsupporting children and teacher education.<\/p>\n

The event, honoring Hamilton County Schools and UTC educators, took place in the University Center Tennessee Room.<\/p>\n

The Butterfield Fellows program was created in memory of Dr. William Butterfield, the late professor emeritus of the UTC Teacher Preparation Academy, who spent 31 years on the UTC faculty.<\/p>\n

Butterfield taught secondary education curriculum and instruction, adolescent psychology and worked with student teachers. He had a long connection to local youth through counseling, teaching and mentoring and started the Upward Bound Program at UTC.<\/p>\n

Upon his death in 2008, his wife, Martha\u2014the first faculty member in the history of the UTC nursing program\u2014established a fund supporting teachers in Hamilton County Schools who work with other teachers to implement classroom management techniques.<\/p>\n

Martha Butterfield, a retired Mary B. Jackson associate professor who taught at UTC from 1974 to 1998, participated in the Butterfield Fellows celebration via Zoom.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know a lot of you didn\u2019t have the opportunity to know Bill Butterfield personally, but I did, and he was known for being the kindest, most thoughtful, most gracious person who always found something good in everybody,\u201d said Dr. Valerie Rutledge, dean of the UTC College of Health, Education and Professional Studies. \u201cThank you to Martha for being so supportive and for doing something that would allow us to continue to honor Bill and to keep him in the forefront.\u201d<\/p>\n

The members of the 2023-2024 Butterfield Fellows cohort are:<\/p>\n