Devon has dedicated over 50 years as an educator and child advocate. She has worked for the Arizona Department of Education for eight years and currently holds the position of Deputy Associate Superintendent for the School Support and Improvement Unit.

Prior to joining the Arizona Department of Education, Devon served as an elementary school principal as well as district level positions in curriculum, instruction and assessment and Special education in both Arizona and California.

Devon Isherwood holds a Master of Science in Educational Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology.

Professional honors received include Chase National School Change Award, PTA Golden Oak Award for Exemplary Service to Children and Families, Honorary Service Award and Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Community Service, and Teacher of the Year.

Sara (Wraight) Wolforth, is a policy principal at AIR. Most recently, Wolforth served as the co-director of the State Support Network, a 4-year contract from the U.S. Department of Education to support states and districts in advancing school improvement efforts. Previously, Wolforth oversaw the Midwest Comprehensive Center, a federally funded center charged with building the capacity of state education agencies in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Wolforth contributed to publications including a book chapter on funding strategies for making schools more safe, equitable, and engaging, a practical guide for developing principal evaluation systems, and several REL Midwest studies. Wolforth’s extensive facilitation experience includes supporting state-level task forces on competency-based education, educator effectiveness, literacy, regional support systems, civic education, and accountability. In her research, policy, and technical assistance work, Wolforth benefits from her experience as an educator, having taught in Chicago at the upper elementary and high school levels. Prior to entering the field of education, Wolforth was a practicing attorney. She earned a master’s degree in elementary teaching from Northwestern University and a juris doctor degree from Washington University in St. Louis.

Cary Cuiccio is a Senior Director at American Institutes for Research, with over 20 years of experience negotiating the implementation of improvement reforms in large urban school districts and state systems, coaching and coordinating technical assistance, and facilitating systems change. In her career at AIR she has developed and guided an innovative, research-based approach to stakeholder engagement in data-driven decision-making, called co-interpretationsm. This approach has been utilized successfully for over ten years on federal, state and local projects to build capacity for collaborative, contributor-informed data analysis, and build local stakeholder engagement in both implementing and learning from key initiatives and education systems change. Cuiccio was the Needs Assessment task lead and a member of the leadership team on the federally funded State Support Network, through which she leveraged her considerable needs assessment expertise to support states and districts as they planned to meet the need assessment requirements under ESSA. In this role Cuiccio co-authored the Needs Assessment Guidebook, a technical assistance tool for states and districts produced by the State Support Network and led the production of a related series of podcasts. Prior to joining the State Support Network team, Cuiccio designed and led the New York City School Renewal Assessments - mixed-methods needs assessments for the 95 lowest-performing schools in New York City. Cuiccio also oversaw the implementation of 3 large-scale needs assessments conducted under the auspices of the Illinois Center for School Improvement: Individual District Needs Assessments for the 26 lowest-performing districts in Illinois; a Network Needs Assessment for the Chicago Public Schools; and an Intentional Data Review and Root Cause Analysis process for 77 individual Illinois districts designated for Focus services based on the performance of subgroup students. Currently, Cuiccio is the Partnership Lead for the Regional Education Laboratory Southwest, where she oversees the work of Partnership Liaisons across six research-practice partnerships in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. Previously, Cuiccio worked in New York City with the New York City Department of Education on implementing the Comprehensive School Reform Program and changes to Title I brought by the No Child Left Behind legislation. Cuiccio earned her bachelor’s degree with distinction from Carleton College and a Master of Science in Organization Development from American University.

Victoria has worked at the U.S. Department of Education (ED) for 12 years in multiple offices across ED. She started in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, supporting States to meet the assessment and accountability requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education of 1965, as amended. From there, she supported policy development in the Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development (OPEPD), oversaw a team of research analysts conducting evaluations of various ED programs in the Policy and Program Studies Service in OPEPD, and finally returned back to OESE to oversee a team of analysts charged with supporting grantees to build and use evidence in their ED-funded grants.