Let your light shine.
About ShineBright Collaborative
At ShineBright Collaborative, we believe children, families, and communities deserve spaces where they feel creative, connected, supported, and seen.
We create joyful, community-centered learning experiences that bring together creativity, education, culture, movement, enrichment, and connection. Through classes, workshops, partnerships, consulting, and community programming, we design experiences that reflect the strengths, identities, and needs of the communities we serve.
Our work may include:
Early childhood music and movement classes
Community enrichment programs
Family-centered workshops and events
Educational and creative programming
School and organizational partnerships
Teacher training and professional development
Curriculum development and consulting
Community-based learning experiences
Rather than offering one fixed model, ShineBright Collaborative is designed to grow with the communities it serves. We believe programs should be responsive, relationship-centered, and rooted in the real strengths and needs of families and neighborhoods.
Whether we are leading a pop-up class, supporting educators, helping organizations build programs, or creating spaces for families to gather and connect, our goal is the same: to help people learn, grow, create, and shine together.
Our Approach
We believe learning should be joyful, inclusive, hands-on, and rooted in community.
Our programs are designed to:
Build connection and belonging
Support creativity, confidence, and curiosity
Reflect diverse cultures, identities, and experiences
Create welcoming spaces for families and communities
Encourage collaboration, exploration, and growth
We believe meaningful learning happens everywhere, in classrooms, community spaces, churches, cultural organizations, and everyday moments of connection.
About the Founder
Maria Del Valle Brin is a three-time Grammy-nominated music educator, author, consultant, and arts administrator with more than 15 years of experience leading inclusive educational and community-based programming in schools, churches, and community spaces.
Originally from Puerto Rico and now based in New York City, Maria is also a proud mother, gardener, and caretaker of two cats and a dog. Her work is deeply shaped by both her professional experience and her life within the communities she serves.
Maria holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education and a Performer’s Certificate in Flute from the University of Florida, as well as a Master’s Degree in Music Education from the Longy School of Music of Bard College. She is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Music Education at Boston University, where her research focuses on inclusive practices, culturally sustaining pedagogy, and community-rooted curriculum design.
Throughout her career, Maria has led music and arts programs in New York City schools, community organizations, and ministry settings, while also coaching educators, developing curriculum, and training teaching artists. Her work centers on creating joyful, meaningful learning experiences that honor the identities, cultures, languages, and lived experiences of children and families.
After becoming a mother, Maria began searching for accessible, high-quality early childhood arts programming in Uptown Manhattan and quickly realized there were very few welcoming and community-rooted options available for young children and caregivers. In response, she launched Shine On Kids in 2016, a pop-up early childhood music and movement class designed to create joyful spaces for families to connect through music, play, and creativity.
As her work continued to grow across schools, churches, and community programs, Maria recognized an even broader need: responsive community programming that not only supports children, but also empowers educators, artists, and families. That vision led to the creation of ShineBright Collaborative, a community-centered initiative focused on learning, enrichment, creative programming, educator support, and culturally sustaining practice.
Today, ShineBright Collaborative develops classes, workshops, partnerships, consulting projects, and community-based programs designed to grow alongside the needs of the communities it serves. Its work is grounded in the belief that vibrant, inclusive learning begins in community — where children are nurtured as creators, families feel connected and welcomed, and educators are empowered to lead with confidence, creativity, and care.
Community Rooted Programming
At ShineBright Collaborative, we believe that the development of young people and the growth of educators are deeply connected. Our vision is to create a vibrant learning ecosystem where children, families and educators learn, grow, and thrive together.
For Children, Families & Communities
At ShineBright Collaborative, we envision community-centered spaces that are joyful, rigorous, welcoming, and culturally sustaining where creativity is nurtured, identities are celebrated, and children and families feel seen, valued, and connected.
We believe meaningful learning happens through relationships, creativity, movement, storytelling, faith, culture, and community. Our programs are designed not only to support artistic and educational growth, but also to foster confidence, belonging, self-expression, and joyful connection for children and caregivers alike.
Music, Movement Pop-Up Classes
Inclusive classes that encourage creativity, imagination, self-expression, and joyful learning through music, movement, storytelling, visual arts, and play.
Youth Ensembles & Performance Opportunities
Collaborative group experiences that help students build confidence, teamwork, artistry, leadership, and performance skills in supportive, community-centered environments.
Audition Preparation & Private Instruction
Personalized support for students pursuing performing arts opportunities, building technical skills, preparing auditions, or deepening their artistic practice.
Creative Playdates & Community Events
Family-centered gatherings that bring children, caregivers, artists, and neighbors together through hands-on creative experiences, seasonal events, workshops, and celebrations.
Church & Family Ministry Support
We partner with churches and faith communities to help create engaging, welcoming, and developmentally meaningful experiences for children and families through worship arts, family programming, volunteer training, curriculum support, and creative ministry initiatives.
Community-Responsive Programming
We believe programs should grow alongside the communities they serve. We collaborate with families, schools, churches, and organizations to create experiences that reflect local interests, cultures, languages, identities, and community needs.
For Educators, Teaching Artists, Volunteers, Churches, Schools & Organizations
We are committed to supporting educators, teaching artists, churches, schools, and organizations through meaningful collaboration, coaching, and professional learning.
We believe educators and ministry leaders thrive when they are supported as creative leaders, collaborators, and community builders. Our work honors the expertise they already bring while creating opportunities for reflection, growth, innovation, and connection.
Teaching Artist Training & Professional Development
Workshops, coaching, and hands-on training experiences focused on inclusive instruction, classroom culture, arts integration, culturally sustaining practice, and student-centered learning.
Curriculum Design & Instructional Coaching
Collaborative support for designing meaningful, engaging, and community-rooted curriculum, classes, rehearsals, worship experiences, and learning environments.
Church Ministry Consulting & Volunteer Training
Support for churches seeking to strengthen children’s ministry, family engagement, worship arts programming, volunteer systems, curriculum planning, classroom culture, and creative faith-based experiences for children and families.
School, Church & Community Partnerships
We partner with schools, churches, community organizations, and arts programs to develop responsive enrichment opportunities, workshops, residencies, community events, and family-centered programming.
Program Development & Consulting
Support for organizations seeking to launch, strengthen, or reimagine educational, arts, ministry, or community-centered programs rooted in local values and long-term impact.
Community-Centered Creative Learning
Our approach is grounded in the belief that the strongest programs are built alongside the people they serve. We prioritize collaboration, accessibility, responsiveness, and relationships in every partnership and learning experience we create.
Contact us
We believe the most impactful arts programs are designed with, not just for, the communities they serve. That’s why we invite families, educators, and local leaders to share their ideas, needs, and hopes for what arts education could look like in their neighborhood, church, or school.
Whether you're a parent looking for a creative outlet for your child, a teaching artist wanting to launch a new class, or a community organizer envisioning an arts event, we want to hear from you. Together, we can co-create classes, workshops, and experiences that reflect your community’s culture, values, and goals.
If you have a program idea or want to collaborate, contact us to start the conversation. Let’s build something meaningful together.