Dr. Sarah Wise has worked in biology and education for over twenty-five years. She has prior experience working on curricular and instructional change in biology, with BSCS and the Science Education Initiative. In prior educational research, Dr. Wise developed and analyzed surveys of teachers, faculty and students and used discourse analysis to investigate student discussion. Most recently, she facilitated seven Departmental Action Teams at the University of Colorado Boulder, contributed significantly to the upcoming book Facilitating Change in Higher Education: The Departmental Action Team Model, and helped develop the Departmental Action Team Theory of Change.