About Us – Deliver Ed

We’re not here for pretty. We’re here for practical.

At DeliverEd, we believe strategic planning is about results, not appearances. We cut through complexity to build actionable plans that work in the real world. With a direct, hands-on approach, we help education leaders create change that sticks—empowering teams to own the process and achieve meaningful outcomes for students. If you’re ready for more than just a good-looking plan, we’re ready to get to work.

Our Mission

To make every goal doable, every win repeatable, and the change students deserve possible.

Our Vision

Educators working together to make success achievable.

Who We Are

DeliverEd is driven by one mission: to build education leaders’ capacity to achieve significant impact for students.

As experts in adult learning, we facilitate teams to collaboratively define success, develop a plan to achieve that success, and then effectively implement that plan. We utilize the delivery approach, a proven methodology for managing implementation across complex education systems and organizations with a singular focus on getting results. This flexible approach includes tools and best practices in:

Setting specific student outcome goals that define and measure success clearly

Benchmarking and developing policies and strategies for achieving system goals

Rapid, operational, and practical planning that guides the day-to-day work of implementation

Establishing systems for performance management and continuous improvement against articulated plans and goals (our “stocktake” process)

Real-time problem-solving throughout implementation to ensure strategies reach the field at scale

Culture and change management to build the necessary capacity and stakeholder support to do the work

Our team has decades of collective experience in applying these tools and practices in education systems and organizations around the country, including more than 20 school districts, 10 state systems, and 15 education-related non-profits.

Read more about our partners here.

Our Core Values

We aren’t successful unless our partners move the needle on results for students and families. We use that as our ‘north star’ that guides our work together.

We help leaders fulfill the promise of access to high-quality teaching and learning for those whom the system has traditionally failed. We work with and challenge our partners to center equity in their root-cause analysis, strategies for improvement, and progress monitoring routines.

Our partnerships are most successful when we leave behind a person or team fully capable of effectively implementing change without us. We begin each partnership with the goal of building individual and team capacity to carry on without our support.

We do whatever it takes to get it right for our partners, from answers to big strategic questions to the smallest details of the work we produce. For that reason, our partnership agreements are focused on co-developed outcomes and deliverables, and we continuously measure ourselves against feedback from our partners.

We readily collaborate and co-create with our partners, bringing our best practices and honoring the expertise in the room. We have the humility to learn with you and grapple together to get to the right answer for your community.

Grounded in Experience. Focused on Results.

As a group of former educators, we have decades of collective experience supporting dozens of state and local education agencies, CMOs, and education foundations around the country. We bring this collective experience and knowledge of what works to every partner, every day.

100% former educators

25+ years collective experience

Trained in Continuous Improvement and the “Delivery” approach

Meet Our Leadership

Former classroom educators. Current system improvers.

Corey Gordon

CEO and Founder

The most personable person you’ll ever meet, Corey is a talented facilitator and coach who continuously incorporates best practices and research to make the work better.

Likes: a good icebreaker, quick wins, dancing.

Dislikes: ignoring student perspectives, tuna fish.

Corey is a founding principal of DeliverEd, bringing years of experience as both a classroom teacher and trusted adviser to school, district, and state leaders. In this role, she manages DeliverEd's partnerships with charter schools, district Superintendents, and non-profit leaders. She is an expert at building relationships and a master facilitator, having taught the "delivery approach" to hundreds of educators across the country. Additionally, she serves as CFO, overseeing DeliverEd's contracting and financials.

Prior to starting DeliverEd, Corey worked for five years with the Education Delivery Institute (EDI) managing engagements with partners at all levels of the U.S. education sector. In that role, she built the capacity of school, district, and state leaders to use the delivery approach to drive dramatic improvements in student outcomes. Much of her work at EDI focused on building the district-level practice, by leading partnerships with Brockton Public Schools (MA), Providence Public School District (RI), and Brevard Public Schools (FL). Prior to working at EDI, Corey taught special education in Metro Nashville Public Schools.

Corey lives in Washington, DC with her husband and two kids, Alex and Taylor. They can often be found having kitchen dance parties or bike riding around the neighborhood parks.

Mia Long

Consultant

Mia Carre Long is presently a consultant at Deliver Ed. Most recently, she served as the Chief of Staff and interim Executive Director at Teach For America. Before that, she held a role as a political appointee during the Obama Administration at the White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education, where she crafted consultation protocols to facilitate trust responsibilities between tribes and the federal government, collaborating closely with the Bureau of Indian Education.

Mia also contributed her expertise while working at the U.S. Department of Education, supporting initiatives such as Teach to Lead, My Brother's Keeper, and the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Her dedicated efforts opened up fresh avenues for civil rights, labor unions, and social justice advocates to engage with senior leadership at the Department.

Mia is an alumna of Teach For America, boasting three years of experience teaching special education at Howard Road Public Charter Schools in Wards 7 and 8 in Washington, D.C. She holds a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, a Master's Degree in Special Education from George Mason University, and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Fisk University.

Mia resides with her husband and daughter in Gaithersburg, Maryland. During her leisure time, she indulges by immersing herself in fantasy novels and experimenting with her culinary skills in the kitchen.

Alexa Arboleda

Consultant

Alexa has had 5 consecutive years of middle school English teaching experience in Washington, DC. Throughout the first part of her teaching career, she earned a Master’s in Science of Education from John Hopkins through the Teaching Alliance Program (formerly known as Urban Teachers). Throughout this time, she excelled in developing her school’s middle school curriculum by contributing new units of study and leading her grade level team.

Prior to teaching and education, Alexa worked at Accenture, a consulting firm, as a management consulting analyst working for federal government clients. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Economics, with a minor in Environmental Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. She was the first in her family to attend and graduate college. She received an International Baccalaureate High School diploma, and credits her 4 years of high school for fueling her interest and belief in the power of education to tap human potential.

Alexa is based out of Washington, DC. However, she is currently living in Morocco, North Africa with her husband as he completes a language scholarship.

Rebecca Davis

Project Leader

With a love for data and a color coded spreadsheet, Rebecca supports teams to plan and implement through complexity with humor, patience, and ease.

Likes: ruthless prioritization, naming the unsaid thing, hammocks.

Dislikes: lack of urgency to improve outcomes for kids, beets.

Rebecca has spent her career supporting leaders of K-12 education systems to successfully implement a variety of initiatives aimed at improving student outcomes. Over the past decade, Rebecca has worked as an education consultant supporting local, state, and national education agencies to assess current capacity, set measurable goals and interim targets, establish plans to achieve those goals, and implement routines to continuously monitor progress. She has special interest in using data visualization to communicate and investigate student success.

Prior to this work Rebecca worked at the U.S. Department of Education managing a portfolio of multi-million dollar Race to the Top grants to support states in reaching identified goals implementing comprehensive education reforms. In particular, she focused on engaging in performance and project management, interpreting policy across education reform areas, and providing ongoing technical assistance and support.

Rebecca began her career as a middle school English teacher in Los Angeles, California. She holds a Master's in Educational Policy and Management from Harvard Graduate School of Education, a Master's in Secondary education from Loyola Marymount University, and a Bachelor's in psychology and art theory and practice from Northwestern University.

Rebecca lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband and two young kids. When she is not playing make believe or Candyland, she likes to dabble in photography and read in hammocks.

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We Deliver Real Results

Each of our partnerships has unique goals. Our job is to support you in meeting them and delivering measurable impact for students.