1. Key Findings Networks achieve success by: - Increasing buy-in and reducing cost of failure - Deliberately including new points of activation (e.g. students, administrators, new faculty) - Including opportunities for face-to-face interaction - Moving beyond data to empowering people to act on the findings Vision & Change has: - Provided a common language to set and communicate goals - Expanded the community of biology educators committed to those goals and begun to broaden beyond our own discipline - Articulated the demand for improved education in a way that is translatable to other disciplines - Served as a catalyst to begin merging and/or connecting pre-existing networks

2. Recommendations 1) Better connect existing networks and expand beyond “the choir” - Create wikipedia entry for Vision & Change or “Biology Education Networks” - Create online registry for existing networks, searchable by location and purpose - Encourage presentation of talks and posters at conferences that aren’t “your own” - Connect PULSE profiles with other networks (e.g. enable finding branded “Vision and Change” departments) - Funders require in annual reports that you update your network entry

3. Recommendations 2) Create a “PubMed” for science education - Promote the inclusion of education articles in the research journals - Connect database of science education research articles with those from social and behavioral science journals - Connect the database with CourseSource 3) Collect best practices for evaluation of networks - Connect with registry of networks (Recommendation 1) - Consortium to match evaluators with networks

4. Key Findings Networks have value. – Facilitate dissemination of curricula, tools, and assessments – Support scaling – Enable education/scientific research – Provide communities (e.g. faculty, students, interdisciplinary activity) Networks are dynamic. – They evolve, have spin-offs, and go extinct.

5. Recommendations and Roadmap Invest in leadership development for network leaders – Compile, synthesize, share organizational change and network science literatures – Organize workshops Leverage Networks – Inventory existing networks that are aligned with the philosophy of the V&C recommendations – Continue V&C meetings

6. Recommendations and Roadmap Fund Networks – Adequately fund core infrastructure – Support elements that promote leveraging and effective action – Seed funding for grassroots formation – ASK - Do newly formed networks align with PCAST and V&C recommendations?