Erin Knott

Greeting DV Connect HS families!

As a reminder, there is no school this Friday, October 16^th. It is a professional development day across Da Vinci Schools.

Important request: Every year, we survey our parents and students to better understand how we can best support you and grow as a school. We request that ALL Connect parents take this survey this week: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/parent_survey_Fall2020 It should take you 10 minutes.

We also want to remind you that this week is Fireside Chat for parents! Join your fellow parents to check in! We would also like to hear your ideas about how we can help support families connect with each other during this challenging distance learning time. Zoom link here: https://us02web.zoom.us/s/3105421796 (no password).

Hope to see you there!

Good evening DV Connect HS parents, guardians, and caregivers,

Da Vinci Connect is in the process of creating awareness this year with regards to suicide prevention, awareness of warning signs, increasing resiliency, and training of key people in the process. Most importantly, you, the parents, guardians, or caregivers. You are a crucial part of this project and process.

When schools closed to students and staff due to COVID-19, many parts of our school community were affected, such as our planned training events. However, the Center for Distance and Online Learning (CDOL) division of the LA County Office of Education (LACOE) recently developed and released a set of screencasts for online parent training. This training is focused on suicide prevention, awareness of warning signs, and increasing resiliency. It is important to note; each segment is not meant to be a stand-alone segment, which means that we ask you ultimately to watch each of them in order and its entirety. By design, each segment is no longer than 15 minutes because you may not have an opportunity to view content like this for an extended period of time.

Online Parent Training Videos

Video 1:  https://youtu.be/yhui44GkHLc

Video  2: https://youtu.be/Gde2Qu-96UM

Video 3: https://youtu.be/py5tv1CKqWw

As you watch these, if you become concerned about your child, please be aware of the following resources recommended by Da Vinci Connect, and please contact your child’s school counselor for any additional questions.

Parent Resources:

2020 Resources for Parents and Staff.docx.pdf

2020 Parent Suicide Ideation Resources.pdf

Da Vinci Schools Families Connected — Families Connected

DV Connect Counseling Team:

Erin Knott, School Counselor, DV Connect HS, eknott@davincischools.org

Please also be aware that additional resources are provided at the end of each segment. Feel free to share the link with others, because the more people who have this important knowledge, the better!

Greetings Connect HS Students and Families! 

We are looking forward to seeing you tonight at 6pm for Back to School Night. Our goal is to share about upcoming events and give you a chance to hear from each of your child’s teachers. Below is the evening’s schedule and Zoom links. We know not everyone can attend so our intention is to record the sessions.

6:00-6:30: Into by Marc and Michelle (https://us02web.zoom.us/s/3105421796) 

6:30-7:30: Rotation to all 3 classes w/ 15 min overview per teacher 

• 9th grade link: (https://us02web.zoom.us/s/3105421796)
• 10th grade link: (https://zoom.us/j/97486659081)

7:30-8:00: Optional Q & A with Marc and Michelle (https://us02web.zoom.us/s/3105421796) 

Thank you and looking forward to seeing you! 

Michelle and your Connect team

Da Vinci Connect HS Families, we have two important Meal Program updates to share with you:

You may pick up FREE “grab-and-go” meals for ALL children 18 & under at Dana Middle School, located at 5504 W. 135th Street in Hawthorne, from 11:30AM to 1:00PM. Da Vinci is now partnering with Wiseburn Unified to provide meals for all of our students. Free meals end on Dec. 31, 2020.

Second, please complete a meal application to ensure your child receives free or reduced price meals for the entire school year. Apply by Oct. 1 to be entered into a raffle to win one of 7 Portable Bluetooth Speakers and 7 24” Gaming Monitors, provided by our generous donors! If you have already submitted an application or have been directly certified you will automatically entered in the raffle.  We are collecting meal applications from every single family regardless of whether you think you may qualify.  Complete a meal application by Oct. 1 to help us maximize funding for all Da Vinci students!  

Apply online at www.mymealtime.com, download an application from the Da Vinci website at www.davincischools.org/meals, or pick up a meal application from Dana Middle School or at the high school campus at 201 N. Douglas Street.

We thank you!

Hello Connect High School students and families!

Please check out the links below to learn more about the “DV All Schools” clubs being offered. Watch the videos to learn more about the clubs, then mark your interest in the google form.

DV Virtual Club Fair link

Club interest Google form

Hello Connect High School Families!

Just a reminder that today is the last day for make-up student photos! Check our previous blog post HERE for all information regarding today’s make-up photo day!

If your student has already taken their photo with Stacee Lianna, photos are ready! You will be receiving a separate e-mail with your child’s password to their unique photo gallery of photos available for purchase. Please consider purchasing your child’s school photo!

Finally, one of our students, Milissa, (long time Connect K-8 student and now Connect HS freshman) has worked to create an opportunity for our students to participate in a forum to learn about how to become a better ally to their BIPOC peers and friends THIS Sunday! See below for more info:

Please check out this FREE resource from HeadSpace LA County– an app/website you can sign up for to access meditations, as well as sleep and movement exercises, designed to help you care for your mind — all free through 2020.  If you scroll to the bottom of the link above, they have curated lists of guided meditations, getting ready for sleep exercises, and guided walking meditations ready for you to play and get zen!

Greetings Connect Families!

A few Friday topics:

• Don’t forget that Monday, 9/7 is a holiday and there will not be any classes held. Enjoy your long weekend!
• We will have our first School Site Council meeting on Wednesday, September 9th at 4pm at this link (password = connect). Thank you to all of our parents and students who have expressed interest in serving on the School Site Council!  We are grateful for their interest and support. We are required to hold a vote in order to select staff, parents and students to participate on SSC. Staff vote for staff, parents vote for parents and students vote for students.
  Parents: please vote for two K-8 parent representatives using this form.
  Students: please vote for two K-8 and two High School representatives using this form.

Greetings DV Connect HS students and families!

Sign up on this link for a 20 minutes one on one meeting with Erin Knott, DV Connect High School’s School Counselor! This is a meeting to get to know one another, discuss any college, career, or academic goals you may have!