Donum Dei Blog

Our Admissions Director shares the questions parents ask most on a campus tour: technology in the classroom, class size, what parent partnership really means, and how discipline works at Donum Dei.

It was the second Field Day of the year and the four school Prefects unveiled a wildly imaginative new game: Puzzle Scavenger Banana Tag. A look at how the House System builds character and community.

Throughout the year, Donum Dei students are learning hymns that put words to the themes of our monthly virtues. The stories behind those hymns reveal writers who worshiped from circumstances that were far from perfect.

When one of my math students is struggling, parents often ask how they can help. There are a few simple principles that can turn around a frustrated child and help your student love math and thrive in it.

A retelling of Martianus Capella's fifth-century story of Philology and Mercury, tracing the history of the Trivium, grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and explaining why classical educators still use it today.

It's 8AM on an average Monday morning and Donum Dei students are seated for assembly. A look at what the ancient Greek idea of ekklesia, the called-out assembly, means for our school gatherings.

Sitting with prospective families during enrollment season, our principal reflects on how Donum Dei helps parents called to San Francisco truly thrive, which is good for families, good for churches, and good for our city.

As we head into Fall Break, our principal reflects with gratitude on the first eight weeks of school and the many ways our community has witnessed God's presence at Donum Dei this year.

Donum Dei celebrated its summer reading challenge super readers, who clocked 84,572 minutes of reading over the break. But the real point of reading is shaping character and forming virtue, not tallying minutes.