Thursday, December 4, 2025

Your weekly Thursday Three: community updates, our impact, and moments of gratitude and celebration from the D39C parent community.

A huge thank you to the counseling team, for their amazing Mental Health Parent Education night; attendees learned how to confidently support designer’s mental health, in a great presentation. We hope you'll join us for future Parent Education nights!

TL;DR (But we hope you read on!)

✅ Want to help plan future events? We need both an events lead and committee members, to help with Spring's Celebration of Us. Interested? Email david@design39collaborative.org. 

✅ Mark Your Calendar 🗓️

• SUNDAY-  Family Dance!
  
  Dec. 19, 2:15 - Music Showcase for Galindo, Rogers, Cole and Ellison, and Corcoran (see attached flier!)
  
  Feb. 2-6 Celebration of Us Week; Feb 8 Celebration of Us Event!

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Happy December; it seems like November blew by, and surely December will as well with the holidays and events planned. I do hope you'll join us for the Family Dance on Sunday - a great time for all designers, and their families. 

Thank you to all who helped make our neighbors' holidays brighter by contributing to Giving Tree; it's wonderful to be able to support our community members in need.

David 
President, D39C Collaborative

We're pleased to accounce the next two larger Collab events: The Famliy Dance, and Celebration of Us.

Get Ready to GLOW! Neon Family Dance Party!
Designers must be accompanied by an adult; this is not a drop-off event.

Celebration of Us Week and Event!

Every year for Celebration of Us (formerly Passport39), volunteers help support our school community with events celebrating who we are together and apart! Volunteers: SAVE THE DATE to help February 2nd thru the 6th over the Designers’ lunch periods! If you’d like to help us plan programming and school day activities, please join the Belonging social group on Konstella or contact Analyn at Analyn@design39collaborative.org

We're also starting to prepare for Celebration of Us Fair on Sunday, Feb 8 - the Collab's multi-cultural fair that's a highlight of every year. If you have a piece of identity that you'd love to share with our community via a booth, performance, or both, please fill out this interest form: FORM. You can also join the Konstella Group HERE (Celebration of Us - Feb 8!).

This week, a huge shout out to our very own Community and Culture Director, Kat Furtado. She's put in a TON of work behind the scenes to make Community Nights a success, and has been working with our wonderful events team (Yay, Leili and Anna, and now Daniela!) to help ensure the Family Dance and Celebration of Us will be a success, while also leading the Collab (along with our Design Thinking Chair, Chadia!) in design thinking excercises designed to improve how we impact our campus. 

If you see her, give her a hearty thanks!