Sandra Ryack-Bell is executive director of the Wade Institute for Science Education. She has over 35 years of experience in developing professional development courses and workshops for educators, enrichment programs for schools, outreach programs, and working with a diversity of environmental and science education agencies and organizations at the local, regional, and national levels. She has spent her career working with scientists,
teachers, and informal educators focusing on bringing real-time science into inquiry-based instruction in the K–12 classroom.