Welcome

Danielle lives, works, and writes

from Long Beach, California

and is available for professional

development and writing.

Contact Danielle for more info.

dcollins.music@gmail.com

Work

Director of Arts, Media, & Entertainment

Inspire EDU & Study Smart Tutors

Adjunct Professor

Vandercook College of Music

Training Facilitator

MusicFirst

Board President

Pulse Percussion, Inc.

Board Member

CVUHSD & Santa Monica AME Advisory

Previous

Music Media Entertainment Technology Chair, Academy for the Performing Arts, Huntington Beach High School

Contract Consultant & Training Facilitator, Los Angeles County Office of Education, CTE Arts Media Entertainment Institute

Board member, AMEI, CBDA & CMEA Innovations Council

VAPA Coordinator, Instrumental Music Director, Rosemead High School

Adjunct Professor, CSU Long Beach & CSU Los Angeles

 
 

Awards

2022, Yamaha’s 40 Under 40 Educators

2021 Orange County Music & Arts Administrator Award

2018, Grant Winner, National Endowment for the Arts, Experiential Ensembles

Presentations

“Popular Music Reading Session: Ear Before Ink”

  • Music Will Summit 2025

"Connecting Arts Educators to Industry"

  • NAMM 2025

"Industry-Ready: Empowering Student Autonomy Through Curated Content"

  • NAMM 2025, NJMEA 2025

CTE AME Standards, Work-Based Learning, and Industry Partnerships

  • Los Angeles Unified School District, Long Beach Unified School District, 2024

“Culturally Relevant Pedagogy,” a teacher workshop

  • Fountain Valley Unified School District, 2024

“Popular Music Lead Sheet Design,” a student workshop

  • New Jersey Music Education Association, 2025

“Steps to Amp Up Your Commercial Music Program”

  • New Jersey Music Education Association, 2024

“A Place to Belong: Reaching your Students Where They Are”

  • Midwest Clinic, 2023

Host- National Pop Music Workshop, Sponsored by Yamaha

“Pop Music Learning Lab Intensive”

  • San Diego Summer Music Institute, 2023

“$100,000 Reasons to Expand Your Market”

  • National Association of School Music Dealers, 2023

“Advanced Tools and Strategies for Commercial Music Programs, Featuring Student Performers”

  • NAMM 2023

“Steps to Amp Up Your Music Program: Featuring Students Performers”

  • NAMM 2023, Oregon MEA 202

“Hometown Heroes”

  • San Diego Arts Empower Mega Conference

“Expanding Markets with Popular Music”

  • Nick Rail Music Seminar, 2022

“Technology in a Post-Covid World”

  • NAMM, 2022, Partnered with Yamaha Corporation of America

“Expanding Your Markets”

  • AIMM Conference, 2022

“Hometown Heroes”

  •  Educators Collective Conference, 2021

“Popular Music in the High School Classroom” 

  •  California Music Educator Bay Section Conference, 2020

  • Arts Schools Network Conference, 2019

“T-Shirts not Tuxes: Reaching the Other 80% of Students on Your Campus”

  •  International Music Education Summit, 2020

  • California All-State Music Educator Conference, 2019

“Creating Your Community”

  •  Keynote Speaker, National Association for Music Education Regional Conference 2019

“Creativity and Project-Based Learning”

  •  California All-State Music Educator Conference, 2019

“Conversations and Insights: Breaking Through Tradition” 

  • California All-State Music Educator Conference, 2018

“Diverse Approaches to Developing a Nontraditional Ensemble” 

  • California All-State Music Educator Conference, 2017

  • Southern California Schools Band & Orchestra Association, Garden Grove, CA, 2017 

  • Association for Popular Music Education Global Conference, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA, 2016 

  • Association for Popular Music Education Regional Conference, CSU Long Beach, 2016