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Hello Da Vinci Connect HS Families!

Today, at 10:20 am, our teachers will be participating in the Great Shakeout, which is a state-wide exercise to practice Earthquake preparedness and safety. You are also encouraged to practice at home! Click HERE for additional information on how to participate at home and have conversations with your family about earthquake and emergency preparedness 🙂

Your Da Vinci Connect Team

Greetings Connect HS Families, 

We are so glad so many of you were able to join us at our first Back to School Night last Wednesday evening. If you missed it, here are the recordings and slide deck: 

Slide Deck 

Recording of Welcome/Overview and 9th grade teachers 

Recording of 10th/11th grade business class 

Recording of 10th/11th grade chemistry and language class 

As a reminder, Connect HS students are currently working on creating Student Led Conference slide decks that will help them facilitate a recorded conversation with you that they will submit to their teachers. Teachers will be available to meet with parents who wish to further discuss. Student Led Conferences are intended to be just that–student led. It is an opportunity for students to “show what they know” and reflect on their progress and areas of growth. As a staff, we will reflect on what we learn this semester to structure SLCs differently next semester. For now, and especially with how complicated COVID life is, we want to honor SLCs while also hopefully making them an easy to manage and stress-free experience. 

One last reminder/request–parents, please complete our fall survey! We truly consider and appreciate your feedback! 

Thank you, 

Your Connect HS Team

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!

DV Connect is seeking input from students, staff, families, and community members on the initial draft of the Learning Continuity and Attendance Plan.  The purpose of this plan is to describe how DV Connect will address the impacts of COVID-19 and maintain continuity of student learning in the coming year.  The final document will include our plans for:

• Providing distance learning and, when public health conditions allow, in-person instruction
• Measuring student progress and participation and address learning loss
• Providing supports for English Learners, Foster Youth, Homeless Youth, Students with Unique Needs, and Low-income students
• Ensuring access to devices and connectivity
• Providing resources and supports to address student and staff mental health and social emotional well-being
• Student and family engagement and outreach to reengage students who are absent, unengaged, or at risk of learning loss
• Providing school meals for students during distance learning and in-person instruction
• Increasing/improving services for English Learners, Foster Youth, Homeless Youth, and Low-Income students

DV Connect values stakeholder voice and input. This input will be used to guide revisions.  A draft will be presented in a public hearing on Friday September 25, 2020 8:00-9:00 a.m. via zoom link https://zoom.us/j/91367888850  and the final draft will be presented for adoption at the September 30, 2020 6:00 p.m. board meeting.

All stakeholders are encouraged to provide comments on the Draft Plan.  The Draft Plan and comment forms can be accessed at the links below.

REVIEW THE DRAFT PLAN LINKED HERE

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS:

Comments can be submitted using one of the following google forms:

English Comment Form  LINKED HERE

Spanish Comment Form (Formulario de comentarios en español) LINKED HERE/VINCULADO AQUÍ

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