Sara served as a teacher, instructional coach and principal at John Muir Elementary School in San Francisco where she initiated Lesson Study and Teaching Through Problem Solving and helped to lead the successful spread of these approaches through the school. Sara's public research lessons, taught to her students in front as many as 100 outside educators have inspired many educators from San Francisco and beyond to begin their own journey with Teaching Through Problem Solving with Lesson Study. She is currently work at Apple.