Danielle is a Mentor, Ohio native who recognized the value of the Montessori ideology while in high school when she worked as a classroom assistant/aftercare provider at the Concord campus in the late 90s. Her journey back to Hershey has taken 20 years. Since graduating with a degree in History and Secondary Education from John Carroll University in 2001, Danielle has lived and worked in many diverse communities. Her previous work in education includes teaching high school History in Beaufort, SC; working with learning disabled students from 3rd-12th grade at a private school in Miami, FL; honing her Montessori skills at Montessori Academy of Broward, in Pembroke Pines, FL as the middle school Science and Social Studies teacher; and working with middle school students in urban public schools, in both Indianapolis and Cleveland, teaching Social Studies, Science and Design. She is licensed in Ohio to teach 5th-9th grade Science and Social Studies and 7th-12th grade History.

Danielle is married and has a son (13) and a daughter (15), and two beagle-rat terrier dogs. When not teaching, she enjoys hiking, yoga, traveling, reading, and spending time on her family’s 100 acres of woodlands in NY state.