Track all of your class deadlines and school related events on the calendar below.
IMPORTANT EVENTS
Here at Da Vinci Design High School, student effort, production, and achievement are showcased in several manners. Students are required to fully attend and participate in all of the following events.
Student-Led Conferences (SLCs): Student-Led Conferences (SLC) are held twice a year. These conferences are an opportunity for students to present their academic progress in a school setting. Students will lead a conference with a teacher representative and their parents. Student will examine evidence of their essential skill proficiency, as well as share an action plan to improve or continue progress. Finally, teachers will address any clarifying questions that students and parents may have.
Exhibition Night: Exhibitions are held twice a year. These events are hosted after school from 6 pm until 8 pm. Students are required to attend and participate for the entire duration of the event. Exhibitions are events in which parents, family, teachers and community members are invited to view and experience the projects students have completed and knowledge that students have gained over the course of the semester. Students are required to wear professional attire unless otherwise instructed by their teachers.
Presentations of Learning (POLs): POLs are reserved for the last days of each semester. Students are required to defend the skills, knowledge, and application of skills they have acquired over the course of the semester in all classes, excluding seminars and advisory. Students are required to wear professional attire, prepare a digital presentation of skills and knowledge acquired, and demonstrates skills and knowledge in a real world application.
A POL grade is also given at the end of the semester. POLs are one of the signature practices of Da Vinci Design High School. As such, freshmen students are given a minimum of one week to prepare and practice in class for this presentation of learning. Within this time, students are given matrices to select topics, checklists to collect data, work time to collaborate with classmates and teachers to refine skills and knowledge, opportunities to craft well-written, detailed outlines or scripts, work time to print, scan and copy necessary materials, participate in mock presentations, and speak with upper classmen who have completed successful presentations.
Student-Led Conferences (SLCs): Student-Led Conferences (SLC) are held twice a year. These conferences are an opportunity for students to present their academic progress in a school setting. Students will lead a conference with a teacher representative and their parents. Student will examine evidence of their essential skill proficiency, as well as share an action plan to improve or continue progress. Finally, teachers will address any clarifying questions that students and parents may have.
Exhibition Night: Exhibitions are held twice a year. These events are hosted after school from 6 pm until 8 pm. Students are required to attend and participate for the entire duration of the event. Exhibitions are events in which parents, family, teachers and community members are invited to view and experience the projects students have completed and knowledge that students have gained over the course of the semester. Students are required to wear professional attire unless otherwise instructed by their teachers.
Presentations of Learning (POLs): POLs are reserved for the last days of each semester. Students are required to defend the skills, knowledge, and application of skills they have acquired over the course of the semester in all classes, excluding seminars and advisory. Students are required to wear professional attire, prepare a digital presentation of skills and knowledge acquired, and demonstrates skills and knowledge in a real world application.
A POL grade is also given at the end of the semester. POLs are one of the signature practices of Da Vinci Design High School. As such, freshmen students are given a minimum of one week to prepare and practice in class for this presentation of learning. Within this time, students are given matrices to select topics, checklists to collect data, work time to collaborate with classmates and teachers to refine skills and knowledge, opportunities to craft well-written, detailed outlines or scripts, work time to print, scan and copy necessary materials, participate in mock presentations, and speak with upper classmen who have completed successful presentations.