Da Vinci Design

Greetings Designers and Design Families,

This week, we are getting ready for POLs. This is a reminder that starting next week, Da Vinci Design will follow a minimum day schedule. From Tuesday, May 31st through the last day of school on Wednesday, June 8th, start time will be at 8:55am and end time will be at 1:55pm. See the bell schedule below.

Join us at South Bay Customs for the Senior Project Showcase on Thursday, May 26th! 

The Senior Showcase is a free event, open to the public, hosted by Da Vinci Design each year! This student led event is created to showcase dozens of senior projects. Senior projects use the skills students learned in their respective pathways to research and address an issue or interest in their communities. This Showcase is a Da Vinci Design tradition that every graduating class gets to complete leading up to graduation. There will be food, live music, and all of Design’s student’s final projects! Funds from sales will go to the cost of the venue, food, invitations, etc. We hope to see you there!

Date: Thursday, May 26th
Time: 5pm to 7pm
Location: 115 Penn St, El Segundo, CA 90245

Key Events & Upcoming Dates:

• May 23rd, Monday: POL Prep Week begins (No Seminars)
• May 26th, Thursday: Senior Showcase Event @ South Bay Customs (free event!)
• May 27th, Friday: 10th Grade On-Campus Activity Day w/ Fulcrum
• May 27th, Friday at 6pm: Paint Night Fundraiser (click here for details)
• May 30th, Monday: NO SCHOOL – Memorial Day Holiday
• May 31st – June 7th: POL Schedules (minimum days – school ends at 1:55pm)
• June 8th, Wednesday: Last Day of School (minimum day – school ends at 1:55pm)
• June 9th: Graduation Ceremony, 5:00pm *Time Corrected* – at 201 N. Douglas St. Campus (must have ticket to attend)

Greetings Designers and Design Families!

It’s hard to believe that there are only four more weeks of school before summer break! And of course, with the end of the semester, comes POLs! See below for key upcoming dates, and some classroom highlights from our 9th grade Fundamentals of Design class as students get ready for POLs!

Upcoming Dates & Events:

• May 11th, Wednesday (5:30pm-6:30pm): Senior Awards Night
• May 17th, Tuesday: School Site Council Meeting #3
  Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/92576546794
  Agenda: 1) ELPAC Testing Updates, 2) Review of Year 1 LCAP
• May 19th, Thursday: 9th Grade Camp Retreat
• May 19th, Thursday: Last day of Seminars
• May 20th, Friday: 9th Grade On-Campus Activity Day
• May 21st, Saturday: Senior Grad Nite
• May 23rd, Monday: POL Prep Week (No Seminars)
• May 27th, Friday: 9th Grade On-Campus Activity Day
• May 30th, Monday: NO SCHOOL – Memorial Day Holiday
• May 31st – June 7th: POL Schedules (minimum days – school ends at 1:55pm)
• June 8th, Wednesday: Last Day of School (minimum day – school ends at 1:55pm)
• June 9th: Graduation Ceremony, 5:00pm *Time Corrected* – at 201 N. Douglas St. Campus

Week 34 Classroom Highlight: 9th Grade Art POL Prep!
For this POL, students have multiple options to choose from. They can choose to revisit a skill taught previously in the year, or, they can work on a passion project! Here are just a few of the work samples from our 9th graders as they sculpt, stitch, draw, screen print, photoshop, and more!

Greetings Designers and Design Families,

What a great week! Shout outs to all of our college-bound Seniors who we celebrated on Decision Day on Monday, 5/2. Thanks to our counseling team for making this fun and exciting event happen. Click here to see all of the photos for the post earlier in the week!

Next week, we will be having a Multicultural Fair on Monday and Tuesday, during an extended advisory period, hosted by Diversity Council. And, we will be celebrating our Seniors once again during Senior Awards Night on Wed, 5/11. Seniors who are receiving recognition will be notified, but all are welcome.

Upcoming Dates & Events:

• May 11th, Wednesday (5:30pm-6:30pm): Senior Awards Night
• May 17th, Tuesday: School Site Council Meeting #3
• May 19th, Thursday: 9th Grade Camp Retreat

Greetings Designers and Design Families,

Happy Friday! We are looking forward to some great things happening at DVD next week. Our Seniors will be having a “Decision Day” celebration during Advisory on Monday where they will declare which colleges they are going to in the Fall! We can’t wait to share the celebration in a post next week.

Next week is also TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK! Thank you in advance for the outpouring of support for our amazing, dedicated teaching staff here at DVD. Parents/Families: please check your email inboxes for opportunities to celebrate teachers this week and to support DVD. Here are a few ways to celebrate our teachers this week:

• Sign Up to Donate Treats and Snacks
• Extend a Quick Message of Gratitude

Week 33 is a short week – Friday 5/6 is a Staff Development day (and also PROM!), so there will be no school on that day:

Upcoming Dates & Events:

• May 2nd, Monday: Decision Day Celebration (for Seniors)
• May 4th, Wednesday: Spanish 3 Field Trip
• May 6th, Friday: Staff Professional Development Day (No School)
• May 6th, Friday (6pm-10pm): Prom! (@ Proud Bird in El Segundo)
• May 11th, Wednesday (5:30pm-6:30pm): Senior Awards Night

Greetings Design Students and Families,

I want to start this week by celebrating all of the students, staff, and student leaders who braved the snow and joined us in the mountains for our 10th Grade Retreat Camp! We were not expecting snow in April, but if this year has taught us anything, it is to expect the unexpected! It was truly a great bonding experience for our 10th graders and will be a camp retreat we won’t ever forget. See pictures below!

Also, we want to celebrate our 12th graders for starting their Senior Project journeys this week! Students who complete their Pitch POL and have their ideas approved will begin field work on their projects next week. For more details, reach out to the teachers on Team 12.

This week, we have a normal bell schedule week. 12th graders will be taking the CA Science Test (CAST) on Monday and Tuesday. 11th graders will be taking the CAST in their Biology classes on Wednesday and Thursday. See the Week 32 bell schedule here:

Parent Hiring Panel Interest Survey (Spring 2022)

Parents/Guardians: we need YOU! It is this time of year when we begin the process of hiring and interviewing potential teaching candidates for the 2022-2023 school year. It has traditionally been part of Da Vinci’s hiring practice that all school stakeholders participate in our hiring events (called symposiums) to help us find the next great DVD teachers. If you would like to participate, complete the Parent Hiring Panel Interest Survey here to learn more and to sign up!

Upcoming Dates & Events:

• Friday, April 29th: Senior Beach Day Field Trip
• Wednesday, May 4th: Spanish 3 Field Trip
• Friday, May 6th: Staff Professional Development Day (No School)
• Friday, May 6th (6pm-10pm): Prom! (@ Proud Bird in El Segundo)

Greetings Designers and Design Families,

This week, we have a special schedule to accommodate our all-school community dialogue this week! And, we are looking forward to sending our 10th graders on the all-day Camp Retreat this Friday. See the bell schedule for the week below:

10th Grade Retreat to Running Springs (Friday, 4/22): Our 10th grade students are scheduled to spend all day Friday, April 22nd in Running Springs, California (near Big Bear Lake)! We are asking all 10th grade students to arrive at DVD by 8:30am on Friday so that we can board buses and leave by 9am. We will be returning to DVD around 9:00pm that evening. Please see information about what to bring (and what not to bring) at this link:

• DVD 10th Grade Camp Retreat Information for Students and Families
• DVD Permission Slip
• Camp Pondo Permission Slip

Greetings Designers and Design Families,

It was so great to see all of you this week at Exhibition Night! We are so proud of the work of our amazing students: from the incredible designs of zines and posters, to the thought provoking photography and spoken word, and of course to the awesome displays of architectural models and art work – we celebrate it all! Hats off to our excellent and collaborative teaching staff for the hard work and coordination it took to help our Design students shine so brightly. See some highlights below!

Wishing all of our students, families and staff a restful and amazing Spring Break! School resumes on Monday, April 18th.

We are delighted to invite our DVD Families and friends onto campus today, April 6th and tomorrow, April 7th from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm for our Exhibition Nights!

We will be showcasing grades 11 & 12 today and grades 9 & 10 tomorrow (4/7). Families and community guests are welcome to come see all of the amazing work that students have been doing.

This is a masked event. All visitors are required to wear a mask while on campus.

We look forward to seeing you at our Exhibition Nights!