Hello DVS Families! Please join us THIS WEEK for the Spring Semester Grade Level College Planning Meetings:
9th Grade: Monday, March 20th at 5pm-6pm
10th Grade: Tuesday, March 21st at 5pm-6pm
11th Grdade: Thursday, March 23rd at 5pm-6pm
All meetings will be on Zoom:
https://zoom.us/j/9301907728 or use Meeting ID: 9301907728
We encourage all students and parents/guardians to attend! All meeting recordings will be posted to the DVS Blog at the end of the week. We hope to see you there!
We hope SLCs this week provided the opportunity for meaningful reflections and conversations. We appreciated the opportunity to meet families in person or on Zoom.
Team 4201 is charging it up again this weekend at the LA Regional Competition hosted by Da Vinci Schools. We are excited to see them in action on our campus!
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Congratulations to Team 4201 Vitruvian Bots who did a great job at the LA Regional Competition in Port Hueneme! Team 4201 made it to the semi-finals and received the “Gracious Professionalism Award” as recognition for being one of the most community-oriented, helpful, and giving teams in the region. The students have been working very hard and we are very proud of them. They will be competing at another LA Regional Competition next week (Friday, 3/17 – Sunday, 3/19) in the Da Vinci Schools gym.
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We hope everyone enjoyed the cold, hail, and snow this week! The snow-capped mountains have been an enjoyable site to see for our community.
(Apologies if you are just receiving the email for this blog post today, there were some technical issues with email notifications being sent out for new blog posts)
Our Robotics team, the Vitruvian Bots, left for Port Hueneme for their Regional Competition this morning. If you would like to watch Team 4201, here is a link to the event. We are proud of our students for their hard work, learning, and dedication to the FIRST Robotics Competition!
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Happy rainy Friday! We hope all students and families are staying warm and safe out there. We had a great Black History Month Community Dialogue today. We thank the BSU (Black Student Union) and NSBE (National Society of Black Engineers) for putting together and leading the Black History Month celebrations that culminated in our celebration of Black Excellence today. We celebrated, danced, and listened to music by Black artists such as Michael Jackson, Kendrick Lamar, Beyonce, Lauryn Hill, Rihana, and more!
We also thank Torrance Memorial Medical Center who shared their careers as Clinical Lab Scientists with our Biomedical Association. It was great to hear from real-world professionals and helpful to know that the field is actively recruiting!
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This has been a great week of fun, love, and spirit!
The Youth & Government Da Vinci Delegation had an amazing Model Legislature & Court Conference in Sacramento. They did an excellent job, bills and proposals were passed, and court questions were won!
We also had a fun spirit week! Thank you, leadership students, for putting spirit week together for us. We always love an excuse to come to school in pajamas.
Additionally, we are grateful to Teleflora for donating flowers, allowing us to continue our yearly tradition of showing students some love by passing out flowers on Valentine’s Day.
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We hope all students and families had a great week. Freshmen had a great “Fulcrum Day” where students got to engage in fun team-building activities. There are “Fulcrum Days” days scheduled for every grade level. Honors certificates were also passed out during advisory. 266 Honors certificates were given. We are very proud of all of our students. This week was also National Counselors Week, we are very grateful and appreciative of our DVS counselors: Corrinne Valle (9th and 11th), Carolyn Ruiz (10th and 12th), and Francisca Marquez(College & Career). Our counselors care very much about all of our students and work hard to support them.
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We hope students had an enjoyable and restful Friday. The staff had a productive professional development day together. Some of the topics discussed in today’s staff development included: supporting students who may struggle with stress & anxiety, discussing strategies for belonging for students of all diverse backgrounds, embracing our own identities to impact our practice, and learning fun and new advisory games!
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Another week down! Next week, we will be on a four-day schedule since we have a PD Day next Friday, February 3rd. Staff will be busy with professional development and we hope the students have an enjoyable and safe three-day weekend! To students who consistently read the DVS blog, thank you, and great job!
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We hope everyone had a great week. Seminars started this week and students are settling back into the routine of things. We also had our School Site Council meeting this week and had a great collaboration session with staff, students, and parents.
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Good afternoon Da Vinci families!
With the start of a new semester, we would like to keep you informed and involved as we continue to support all of our students in their success at Da Vinci Schools.
We are working diligently this year to regularly monitor student progress in academics, socio-emotional well-being, behavior, and attendance to ensure that we are able to communicate with families, respond to concerns, and intervene with supports as quickly as possible when our students are struggling to access the educational opportunities that we provide. In particular this semester, we will be more closely monitoring attendance because research has shown that regular attendance is vital for the success of students in school. Students who are present are more likely to succeed academically, engage with others, and be better prepared for success beyond school. This semester we are increasing our communications with families when a student’s attendance falls below 90%, as that is the state threshold for students being classified as chronically absent. In addition to daily absence notification calls, every two weeks our schools will email or directly call the families of chronically absent students to keep them informed of their student’s attendance status and let them know whether or not their student’s attendance has improved over the past two weeks. Parent meetings may be held for student’s whose attendance fails to improve over the course of multiple weeks, with the goal of coming together as a team to identify the challenges and implement supports to ensure that we are doing all that we can to help get students back on track.
California law states that absences are excused only if the child is ill or there is an excuse that meets the requirements of the California Education Code Section 48205. Even excused absences that cause your child to miss significant amounts of school can cause your child to fall behind in class and can cause them to be classified as chronically absent. Our school will continue to require verification of absences due to illness or quarantine if your child has missed school for three consecutive days. Please be aware that going “out of town” when school is in session with your child is an unexcused absence.
We hope that all of our students will be in attendance every day, but we also understand that there are times when absences may become a challenge. As we continue our pursuit of our students’ learning and growth, we look forward to strengthening our partnership with our families to ensure that all Da Vincians have the support that they need to access their education and achieve success.
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Youth and Government at Bill Hearing Night, Jan. 11th.
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