The Great California Shakeout
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
Back to School Night Slides/Recordings and Survey Reminder
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:
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
A couple important reminders…
Greeting DV Connect HS families!
As a reminder, there is no school this Friday, October 16th. 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!
Parent Training: Suicide Prevention & Awareness
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!
Back To School Night TONIGHT! Important Info and links below!
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
Student Documentary Competition hosted by CSPAN
Charter Communications, locally known as Spectrum is once again proud to support C-SPAN and its annual StudentCam documentary competition. With many students across the country adapting to a virtual or hybrid model of learning, StudentCam 2021 offers an opportunity for project-based learning that can be particularly rewarding for both teachers and students, regardless of the educational setting.
The competition invites middle and high school students to join the national conversation on the challenges our country is currently facing by creating a 5- to 6-minute documentary on this theme: Explore the issue you most want the president and new Congress to address in 2021. Next spring, the C-SPAN Education Foundation will award 150 student and 53 teacher prizes totaling $100,000.
To ensure students’ success in these challenging times, Spectrum is committed to help bridge the digital divide with enhanced measures that expand internet access and maintain connectivity for remote learners.
We hope you’ll join us in getting the word out about C-SPAN’s StudentCam and how it serves as an innovative enrichment-learning experience well-suited to these unprecedented times. For more information on the competition, please visit www.studentcam.org
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