Mrs. D'Anna is staying at Blake. We forced the administration to reverse their decision and keep her in the position she built over fifteen years. Keep watching the school board meetings to ensure our arts programs receive the protection they deserve.
May 1, 2018
Final supporters
Mrs. D’Anna has been the core of the dance program at Blake high school. She is inspiring and motivating teacher who is very passionate about her work. Based on everything she has created at Blake, it would be a absolute disgrace to see her get pushed out of the program she helped create.
Mrs. D’Anna truly cares about her students and is always pushing them to better themselves. Please sign this petition to help us keep her at Blake.
Here’s a message from some current students regarding Mrs. D’Anna
Recently, Ms Danielle D'Anna was told that she would be involuntarily transferred at the end of this school year. This is not the first time Blake has attempted to drive an arts teacher out, which doesn't make sense, as Blake is Montgomery County Public Schools' Signature School for the Arts. Ms. D'Anna has been teaching dance at Blake for the past 15 years. Along with teaching, she was also the Blake Bengals Pom coach for eight years and brought her team from Division 3 to Division 1. Ms. D'Anna was recognized as Universal Dance Association's most valuable coach for three years in a row. Ms. D'Anna has developed a high level dance group at Blake, the Dance Company. Students strive and work hard to be a part of this group before they graduate their senior year. Members of this group not only learn new choreography in different styles but also learn how to choreograph as well as the origins of dance. Her dance students grow as strong confident technical dancers, choreographers and story tellers.
She has had a positive impact on all of her students, many of whom have moved on to become dancers in the professional world, dancer majors in college, and dance teachers themselves. Ms. D'Anna has turned the dance studio into a safe haven for not only her students, but others looking for someone to talk to. Last year, when we lost two students in the senior class, she opened her doors to anyone who needed time to grieve and took time to listen and just be there for whatever they needed.
Ms. D'Anna is the reason that students come back each year to participate in the dance department. Students are eager to learn, both technically and creatively from her. She works them hard because she knows her students can, and will, succeed- through dance and academics in making sure her students are prepared for the professional world. So many alumni come back each year to visit her and watch the dancers grow. Ms. D'Anna's passion for dance and teaching has been shared with every student she has ever welcomed and taught in the dance department. Ms. D'Anna has had a positive impact on the lives of her students and there is no reason why she should not be welcomed back to James Hubert Blake High School next year with open arms.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
March 11, 2018
March 11, 2018
The momentum behind this petition is undeniable and shows exactly how much Mrs. D’Anna means to our school community. Post this link on your Facebook page right now and email your district representative to tell them she must stay at Blake.
Reached 100 supporters
March 10, 2018
March 9, 2018
We are approaching one hundred signatures and need to push harder to get the attention of the school board. Post the link to your Facebook page and text three friends who care about the arts program.
169 Comments
Ms. D has been very instrumental in the life of my daughter who is now 22. My daughter Tydryn is now dancing in LA with different artist and very successful. She cares about her students and is a VERY GOOD Teacher/Instructor.
I never had her as a teacher. However I had many friends and even now my younger brother who sign her praises on her teaching. Why would you involuntarily remove an institution and pillar within the Blake community?
I don’t know her personally, but from the shows that Blake has promoted, all the students are amazing and you can see how she works hard to make them the best. This is an arts school, dance is a big part of that. Blake needs her.
Danielle D’Anna was the single most influential teacher and coach I ever had in my 13 years of MCPS schooling. She encourages community, discipline and ambition among her students and is a committed teacher, counselor, and coach full-time, outside the classroom just as much as inside.
I learned more life lessons from Ms. D’Anna than I can count, and she taught me how to not only be the best dancer I could be, but the best person I could be. She is a huge part of the Blake community and it wouldn’t be the same without her.
An amazing teacher!!!
She deserves to stay especially because of her amazing accomplishments that not even Blake staff has achieved.
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Mrs. D'Anna is staying at Blake. We forced the administration to reverse their decision and keep her in the position she built over fifteen years. Keep watching the school board meetings to ensure our arts programs receive the protection they deserve.
May 1, 2018
Final supporters
Mrs. D’Anna has been the core of the dance program at Blake high school. She is inspiring and motivating teacher who is very passionate about her work. Based on everything she has created at Blake, it would be a absolute disgrace to see her get pushed out of the program she helped create.
Mrs. D’Anna truly cares about her students and is always pushing them to better themselves. Please sign this petition to help us keep her at Blake.
Here’s a message from some current students regarding Mrs. D’Anna
Recently, Ms Danielle D'Anna was told that she would be involuntarily transferred at the end of this school year. This is not the first time Blake has attempted to drive an arts teacher out, which doesn't make sense, as Blake is Montgomery County Public Schools' Signature School for the Arts. Ms. D'Anna has been teaching dance at Blake for the past 15 years. Along with teaching, she was also the Blake Bengals Pom coach for eight years and brought her team from Division 3 to Division 1. Ms. D'Anna was recognized as Universal Dance Association's most valuable coach for three years in a row. Ms. D'Anna has developed a high level dance group at Blake, the Dance Company. Students strive and work hard to be a part of this group before they graduate their senior year. Members of this group not only learn new choreography in different styles but also learn how to choreograph as well as the origins of dance. Her dance students grow as strong confident technical dancers, choreographers and story tellers.
She has had a positive impact on all of her students, many of whom have moved on to become dancers in the professional world, dancer majors in college, and dance teachers themselves. Ms. D'Anna has turned the dance studio into a safe haven for not only her students, but others looking for someone to talk to. Last year, when we lost two students in the senior class, she opened her doors to anyone who needed time to grieve and took time to listen and just be there for whatever they needed.
Ms. D'Anna is the reason that students come back each year to participate in the dance department. Students are eager to learn, both technically and creatively from her. She works them hard because she knows her students can, and will, succeed- through dance and academics in making sure her students are prepared for the professional world. So many alumni come back each year to visit her and watch the dancers grow. Ms. D'Anna's passion for dance and teaching has been shared with every student she has ever welcomed and taught in the dance department. Ms. D'Anna has had a positive impact on the lives of her students and there is no reason why she should not be welcomed back to James Hubert Blake High School next year with open arms.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
March 11, 2018
March 11, 2018
The momentum behind this petition is undeniable and shows exactly how much Mrs. D’Anna means to our school community. Post this link on your Facebook page right now and email your district representative to tell them she must stay at Blake.
Reached 100 supporters
March 10, 2018
March 9, 2018
We are approaching one hundred signatures and need to push harder to get the attention of the school board. Post the link to your Facebook page and text three friends who care about the arts program.
169 Comments
My daughter trains with a pre-professional dance school. She was hesitant to take dance at Blake because she wasn’t sure of the quality. Then she saw Ms. D’Anna’s end of the year program and was so impressed. So she auditioned. This year she has been in the Dance Company and loves it.
Ms. D has been very instrumental in the life of my daughter who is now 22. My daughter Tydryn is now dancing in LA with different artist and very successful. She cares about her students and is a VERY GOOD Teacher/Instructor.
I never had her as a teacher. However I had many friends and even now my younger brother who sign her praises on her teaching. Why would you involuntarily remove an institution and pillar within the Blake community?
I don’t know her personally, but from the shows that Blake has promoted, all the students are amazing and you can see how she works hard to make them the best. This is an arts school, dance is a big part of that. Blake needs her.
Danielle D’Anna was the single most influential teacher and coach I ever had in my 13 years of MCPS schooling. She encourages community, discipline and ambition among her students and is a committed teacher, counselor, and coach full-time, outside the classroom just as much as inside.
I learned more life lessons from Ms. D’Anna than I can count, and she taught me how to not only be the best dancer I could be, but the best person I could be. She is a huge part of the Blake community and it wouldn’t be the same without her.
An amazing teacher!!!
She deserves to stay especially because of her amazing accomplishments that not even Blake staff has achieved.
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My daughter trains with a pre-professional dance school. She was hesitant to take dance at Blake because she wasn’t sure of the quality. Then she saw Ms. D’Anna’s end of the year program and was so impressed. So she auditioned. This year she has been in the Dance Company and loves it.