 In 1988 she was the Project Director for the Teacher Leadership Strand for the Puget Sound Educational Consortium in Seattle, and the following year she became the Senior Researcher for School Change with the Coalition of Essential Schools and at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University.In 1989 she earned her Doctor of Education In 1996 she began a four-year tenure as dean of the Graduate School at Bank Street College of Education in New York City.Wasley became the dean of the College of Education at the University of Washington in 2000.