Who: Juniors and their families
What: College and post-secondary planning information presented by the DVD counseling team
Where: Zoom webinar- https://zoom.us/j/92982060505
When: Wednesday March 8, 2023 5:00-6:00pm
*Presentation recording and slide deck will be shared after the meeting.
Greetings Design Parents/Guardians,
Mr. Stoll and Mr. Takeyama will be hosting our March “Coffee with Admin” parent info sessions tomorrow! We invite you to join us to hear about updates from the school, to ask us any questions you have, or to share your feedback and ideas about the school.
Wednesday, March 1st: Coffee w/ Admin Parent Info Session
Hope to see you there!
—DVD Admin
Greetings Designers and Design Families,
This week, for our campus highlight, we are celebrating the incredible mural work done by our designers that is currently featured in the center atrium. A new semi-permanent installation in the atrium is a credit to our Ethnic Studies class. The murals were hand painted by our DVD Seniors and presented for their POLs last semester, and represent varied and diverse stories of cultural representation and finding joy in overcoming oppression. Our current installation in the glass display case was produced by our Black Student Union in commemoration of Black History Month. We are so proud of our DVD artists and achieving such beautiful, meaningful artwork.
See below for key upcoming dates and the Week 25 Bell Schedule:
Key Dates and Upcoming Events:
Week 24 Highlights: DVD Atrium Murals – Ethnic Studies Fall 2022 POLs and Black History Month 2023
Good afternoon,
DVD’s School Site Council meeting originally scheduled for this evening (Feb. 22nd) has been postponed to Feb. 28th.
Agenda and Zoom link will remain the same and will be re-posted this Friday with weekly update.
Thank you!
Greetings Designers and Design Families!
We are wrapping up a fantastic and fun week at DVD! We handed out roses to each student on Valentine’s Day, we showed out with our Spirit Week dress up days, and we culminated it all with an amazing community dialogue assembly celebrating Black History Month. CD, hosted by our awesome Black Student Union and their advisors, had the whole school community sharing in the joy as we had games, dancing, awards, and even a Soul Train style fashion show, all backed by a live DJ. See below for photos!
Next week, we have a short schedule due to the President’s Day holiday. See the Week 24 schedule here:
Key Dates and Upcoming Events:
Week 23 Highlights: Black History Month CD & Valentine’s Day Rose Welcome
Sling Pilot Academy x SkyWest Airlines Partnership Launch Event – Saturday March 11, 2023 9:00 AM- 1:00 PM
100 FREE FLIGHTS FOR HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS:
Sling Pilot Academy, the largest and most innovative flight school in the Los Angeles Area, and SkyWest Airlines, the Largest Regional Airline in the world are pleased to welcome you to our elite partnership launch event and open hangar.
Sling Pilot Academy is giving away 100 Free Flights to high school juniors and seniors and community college students during this STEM event, to create awareness about the airline pilot career.
To qualify for a free Introductory Flight Lesson, high school junior and senior students and college students will need to present a valid student ID. Career advisors are also eligible for a free Introductory Flight Lesson.
Each student will receive:
* If, for any reason, a student does not have time for a flight or simulator session they will receive a rain check to come back and claim their flights.
TICKETS ARE FREE AND ARE FIRST COME FIRST SERVED. Reserve your tickets through the QR code below.
Click here for more information.
For more information, please contact Crissel Rodriguez, Director of Real World Learning, at crodriguez@davincischools.org.
Greetings Designers and Design Families,
The classroom highlight from this week might make you hungry! Today, our 9th graders got to go on a walking field trip to Del Aire park and celebrate the kick off for their Spring exhibition projects by visiting some food trucks. For this upcoming project, students will model their ideal food truck and even conceptualize what recipes they would put on the menu. They got to spend the day outside at the park, sampling some of the food, hearing directly from food truck owners, and brainstorming what their food truck might be like. See photos below!
Next week is Spirit Week! See below for the spirit week days, and the Week 23 Bell Schedule:
Key Dates and Upcoming Events:
Week 22 Highlight: 9th Grade Food Truck Field Trip
Dear Parents/Guardians and Students of the Class of 2023,
We’d like to inform you about an exciting opportunity for the senior class. Your student will be a part of the next class of Da Vinci graduates to experience Senior Projects. This student-driven project will give Da Vinci Designers the opportunity to explore a project topic of their choosing, and each student will design a project meant to address a need of the Da Vinci Schools or of our local community. Working in a group, students will collect research, take action through fieldwork and consult with experts or target groups off campus. Each group will be assigned an advisor to guide them through the project design process, and through a series of POLs. The project will culminate in an exhibition with students explaining their research and solutions that they have created in response to their topic.
To learn more about the Senior Project process, you can access the full letter shared with students here: Senior Project Family Letter
Today is the first day of National School Counseling Week. The theme of this year’s week is “School Counselors: Helping Students Dream Big.”
Come celebrate with your DVD counselors all week long and take a picture in front of the photo board!
Greetings Designers and Design Families,
Happy February! We are kicking this month off with multiple celebrations.
First, we started this week celebrating Black History Month! Students from our BSU started a month long celebration by decorating the atrium staircase at DVD. They are also working on a collaborative mural that will be displayed on the first floor. And, they are hard at work preparing for our annual Black History Month community dialogue assembly. We look forward to recognizing the achievements of Black Americans this month in our classes and curriculum, too.
Next week, we are celebrating National School Counseling Week! Not only is this an opportunity for us to celebrate our amazing school counseling team, but it is also an opportunity to engage our students in a week of activities focused on promoting mental health, college readiness, and socioemotional learning. Take advantage of the spirit of recognizing the importance of school counseling this week, and consider sending a message of support or gratitude to our great team of counselors!
See the Week 22 Bell Schedule below, as well as a progress report update, important Senior updates, and upcoming events:
Academic Progress Report: Grades Updated Today via PowerSchool
Parent/Guardians: Friday, 2/3 is the first “Progress Report” grade update for semester 2. What that means is that during staff development today, teachers for all core classes have updated the “Final Grade” for students in both Canvas and PowerSchool. We encourage all parents/guardians to log in to PowerSchool to see your student’s current academic progress. If there are questions about your student’s progress, please encourage your student to connect with their teachers before/after classes, or you may always reach out directly to teachers with an email.
To log in to PowerSchool: See the link under the Resources section on the blog. And, if you have trouble accessing PowerSchool or Canvas, please reach out to the Front Office at DVD.
Senior Activities Updates:
Attention 12th Grade Students and Families: As we near the end of your final semester with us at Da Vinci Design, we look forward to celebrating you with so many great events! Dates for Graduation ceremony, Prom, and Disneyland Grad Nite can be found at the link below!
In the past week, the Senior teaching team has handed out both a Senior Activities overview, as well as a Senior Contract which reiterates important academic and behavior reminders for Seniors.
Seniors should have shared both the contract and the info sheet with you – see here for a digital copy of the activities sheet.
Do you have questions about any of these events? Please reach out to the contact person listed for each Senior activity or event on the Senior Activities info page.
Key Dates and Upcoming Events:
