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Greetings Designers and Design Families,

Week 27 is well under way, and this week is COLLEGE AND CAREER WEEK! A huge shout out goes to our counselors for organizing some outstanding activities and visitors for us during advisory this week!

Monday was all about college: college knowledge trivia, a March Madness door decorating contest, and alumni visitors to share their experiences with students!

Tuesday is all about career: we’ve got different career day speakers, again including DVD alumni, visiting classrooms during advisory. So much good stuff!

See the Week 27 Bell Schedule below, as well as some important announcements:

Key Events and Updates:

• Seniors: the deadline to purchase tickets for Grad Nite has been extended until further notice. Tickets for Grad Nite (at Disneyland) may be purchased online via www.MySchoolBucks.com.
• Da Vinci Design is offering FREE, in-person, after-school tutoring starting THIS WEEK! Tutor Jay Mitsch will be available for appointment and drop-ins Monday-Thursday, 4pm-5pm. All are welcome!

Week 26 On-Campus Highlight: Spring Dance “A Night Under the Lanterns”!

Last Friday, we were so excited to be able to bring back our Spring semi-formal dance! Congratulations to the student Leadership teams from all of the high schools who helped host the dance last Friday. It was so much fun to dance and be with friends under the stars! Here a few photos from the night of the dance:

Greetings Designers and Design Families,

To start: thank you to the Da Vinci Design Black Student Union for hosting our annual Black History Month CD in the gym today! The performances were powerful, and our student leaders should be so proud of hosting such a successful and meaningful experience. See photos below.

Next week is the start of Student Led Conferences (SLCs) which will take place via Zoom from 2pm-4pm. Please remember that next week is a minimum day schedule for students and that students will be released at 1:55pm.

For specific information for each grade level, please click here for last week’s post.

Special 9th Grade Assembly on Thursday

On Thursday of this week, we held a special assembly for our 9th graders meant to address the topic of how we can honor respect for each other in our classrooms and on our campus. The program was run by an incredible group of 11th and 12th grade student leaders, who helped facilitate important discussions, as well as administrators and the 9th grade teachers. This team led 9th graders in confronting important topics such as avoiding dehumanizing language and slurs, appropriate classroom behaviors, and being respectful in our words and actions. We will continue to educate our students in an effort to build a positive and safe school culture for all students. To see some of what was covered, click here.

Key Events and Upcoming Events:

• March 7th-10th: SLCs
• March 11th: Spring Dance from 6pm-9pm
  See blog post here for more details.
• March 11th: NO CLASSES (Staff Development Day)

 

Greetings Designers and Design Families,

Student Led Conferences (SLCs) are coming up soon. SLCs will be hosted via Zoom from March 7th-10th (see Week 26 schedule below). Please the see attached documents here for details from each grade level about SLCs:

• Grade 9: SLC Letter
• Grade 10: SLC Letter
• Grade 11: SLC Overview
• Grade 12: SLC Overview

For further questions about SLCs, please contact your grade level teachers.

Key dates and events coming up:

• Mar. 4th: Black History Month CD Assembly
• Mar. 7th-10th: Student Led Conferences (via Zoom) *Schedules and Details coming soon*
• Mar. 11th: NO SCHOOL (Professional Development Day)

Greetings Designers and Design Families,

Happy three day weekend! We hope all of you have a safe, restful, and enjoyable holiday weekend. Because of the Monday holiday, Tuesday will be an all periods day for our students next week. See the schedule below:

Key dates & upcoming events:

• Feb. 21st: NO SCHOOL (President’s Day Holiday)
• Mar. 4th: Black History Month CD Assembly
• Mar. 7th-10th: Student Led Conferences (via Zoom) *Schedules and Details coming soon*
• Mar. 11th: NO SCHOOL (Professional Development Day)

Greetings Designers and Design Families,

DVD was feeling the love yesterday as we kicked off Spirit Week! As each Da Vinci Design student came up the stairs yesterday, they were handed a fresh flower by one of our Leadership students or a faculty administrator. And after that, our Seniors had the opportunity to celebrate their recent win in a grade-level design challenge with some shaved ice as they heard some important Senior announcements. Check out some of the photos below!

We wanted to extend a special thank you to Conroy’s Flowers Redondo Beach for being such an excellent partner for our morning flower event, providing DVD with an assortment of hundreds of beautiful, fresh cut flowers. Thank you Conroy’s!

And, we wanted to extend another thank you to Ray Houser of Philly Gourmet Ice (IG: @phillygourmetice) for providing delicious Italian shaved ice for all of our Seniors. Thank you Philly Gourmet Ice!

And finally, events like this are made possible thanks to our extended Da Vinci Design community for supporting our school with donations so that we can host fun events like these! If you or someone you know would like to make a contribution to Da Vinci Design, you may do so at our giving website here and select “Da Vinci Design”.

Greetings Designer and Design Families,

So much good stuff happening at DVD this week!

In honor of February being Black History Month, our DVD Black Student Union has been working hard to recognize the importance of black history on our campus. DVD BSU has produced a beautiful new display in the display case in the 1st floor atrium, and around our campus. See a photo below of some of our awesome DVD BSU team! This will all culminate in our annual Black History Month Community Dialogue on Friday, March 4th.

And, next week is Spirit Week! Students are encouraged to dress up and participate in the following dress up days – click here to see the Spirit Week flyer:

• Monday: Color coding (and a surprise!)
• Tuesday: Superhero
• Wednesday: Pink
• Thursday: Twins
• Friday: PJs

Next week is a regular bell schedule – see here:

Week 22 Campus Highlight: DVD Black Student Union