Sophie Zepf currently works for Corwin as a Marketing Specialist and enjoys sharing client success stories through multi-channel marketing campaigns. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications, with an emphasis in Advertising and Public Relations from California Lutheran University. Sophie is passionate about helping others and is an active member in the company’s Accessibility and Wellness Employee Resource Group. In her free time, she is pursuing a master’s degree in project management at Colorado State University Global. 

Alisa Barrett has been an educator for twenty years. She has taught kindergarten, first grade, and third grade and has been the Director of Instruction of Greenfield Exempted Village Schools for seven years. Alisa is a graduate of Oakland City University (’05 B.A. in Elementary Education) and The University of Akron (’11 M.A. in Instructional Technology). She is currently a doctoral candidate studying Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Virginia. Alisa has led the district’s Visible Learning work since its inception and strives to continue deep implementation of evidence-based practices and creating self-assessment capable learners in all preschool through twelfth-grade classrooms.