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PASSIONATE CITIZENS CHANGE THE WORLD

Our educational program encourages curiosity, exploration, cooperation, risk-taking, and a love of learning. It is integrated across academic disciplines and incorporates a project-based approach in which our students develop academic skills through inquiry and collaboration.

COMMUNITY IS KEY

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COVID-19 Testing Available to the Broader Community

At CDS, we believe that community matters and in these tricky times we are looking out for our neighbors with access and equity top of mind. Therefore, we are pleased to report that the COVID-19 testing service, facilitated the past two days through... Read more
Eighth Graders Interview SF Chief of Staff

At CDS, we believe that active participation in personally and socially meaningful work is one of the most important aspects of learning, and our students cannot do this work without knowing what’s going on in the world around them. Each year, our... Read more
The Sixth Graders Create a Museum

Last week, our sixth grade students turned Founders’ Hall into a historical museum. Their parents, teachers, and fellow students dropped in to see models of items from early Central and South American civilizations, including temples constructed... Read more
The TK Alligators Meet Author Nina Crews

Over the last several weeks, our Transitional Kindergarten Alligators have been reading a lot of books by author/illustrator Nina Crews: A High, Low, Near, Far, Loud, Quiet Story, Jack and the Beanstalk, Below, and A Girl Like Me are just a few of... Read more
Muttville Visits the Fourth Grade

Last week, the Fourth Grade Sandpipers had a special visit from our friends at Muttville Senior Dog Rescue! CDS families may remember the fourth graders’ fundraiser from last spring, where they raised $1,250 for Muttville by selling stickers,... Read more
Creating and Reflecting Through Photography

If you climb up the staircase of St. Joseph’s Hall, you’ll see some unusual pictures framed on the walls. They’re photos of last year’s fourth grade students lying in fields, sitting in trees, playing sports, and much more. All of the pictures are... Read more
CDS Continues Scholar Card Partnership with SF Public Library

We recently had our first in-person Friday assembly in a year and a half, and it included an unusual bit of symmetry. In early 2020, at our very last all-community gathering before COVID-19 forced us to move our assemblies online, we introduced our... Read more
Fourth Grade Poems in the Asian Art Museum

One of our core learning beliefs at CDS is that interdisciplinary learning provides real opportunities for our students to understand how the world is interconnected. Last year, our fourth-grade students worked on a project which is a perfect... Read more
CDS Teacher Creates Sweet Treats

At CDS, our teachers are people of many talents! Just one example is Nicole, our Fourth Grade Warblers teacher, who also works as a provider of baked goods at Nicole’s KitChin. She sells sweet and savory treats and desserts as well as providing... Read more
The Facilities Team Responds to the Pandemic

The unsung heroes of CDS are the members of our facilities team, who work tirelessly behind the scenes to keep the school running. Since the onset of the pandemic, they’ve been busier than ever, paying attention to all of the latest directives and... Read more
Middle Schoolers Meet in Virtual Clubs

As of this writing, the CDS middle school community has been learning from home for nearly two months. As with every school that’s had to adapt to a virtual learning program during the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve faced our share of challenges.... Read more
CDS Statement on Antiracism

As conversations have increased in the past several months about racism, social justice, and police brutality throughout our nation, CDS faculty and staff have realized that we need to be more reflective about racial inequality within our own school... Read more
CDS Teacher Helps Foot the Bill with Shoe Design

These days it’s more important than ever to support our local businesses, and Preschool Starfish Head Teacher Greg Gardner is doing just that! Greg frequently works with the San Francisco Skate Club, a program that provides not only skateboarding... Read more
Scholar Cards Provide Instant Library Access for All CDS Students

In the four months since we opened the CDS Community Library and Center for Inquiry, our students have been introduced to an amazing number of new books and authors. Now, we will be able to expand their horizons even further through a new... Read more
Students Lobby for Accessibility Upgrades to Our Campus

One of the eleven CDS Learning Beliefs states that "assessment should be embedded in the learning process and is most meaningful when it incorporates reflection, feedback, and revision." In the summer of 2018, the school embarked on a major remodel... Read more
The Starfish Perform at 826 Valencia

Our Preschool Starfish students love to sing, and last Friday they got to perform to a big audience! 826 Valencia, San Francisco’s beloved educational center for young writers and artists, was having a release party for the latest issue of... Read more
The Community Library Opens

A new, exciting learning space has opened up for our students! The CDS Community Library and Center for Inquiry officially opened on November 11, and last week we welcomed a large crowd of CDS families for an open house. The recent remodeling of... Read more
Yangsook Choi Visits CDS

The CDS Community Library and Center for Inquiry is almost open for business (our Open House is scheduled for next Friday), and we’ve already had our first visit from an author! Yangsook Choi, writer and illustrator of children’s books such as The... Read more
CDS Students Oppose Juul on Local News

Two of our eighth graders were interviewed today by KTVU Channel 2 News. The students spoke about SF Proposition C (sponsored by Juul and others) and encouraged people to learn more about the issue. “I asked my students, ‘Do you have any friends... Read more
CDS Students Take Part in Climate Strike

Today, millions of students in 150 countries around the world took to the streets to protest the lack of progress in climate change reform. Thousands of people participated in the San Francisco protests, and CDS eighth graders were among them.... Read more
Middle School Students Create Play in Honor of Harvey Milk

Last week, a group of CDS Middle School students performed Dear Harvey, an original play that is an autobiographical account of self-discovery, identity, friendship, and love. Every word, set piece, and costume in the production was created... Read more
The Eighth Grade in Washington D.C.

Throughout this school year, our eighth grade students have served as passionate advocates for immigration reform, collecting the signatures of 3,000 Bay Area residents in support of loosened restrictions. The culminating moment of this project took... Read more
Soup for Change

What a night it was as our seventh graders hosted Soup for Change just before spring break. The inaugural dinner was an astounding success and a true testament to our school's mission of cultivating passionate citizens who change the world. After... Read more
Restorative Justice in Seventh Grade

Recently, Sunny (the mother of one of our Seventh Grade Green students) was a guest speaker in her daughter's class. Sunny has a rich history in the criminal justice system and is an innovative reformer in the field. She is the founder of the SF... Read more
Our Eighth Graders Are Published Writers!

Every year, Eighth Grade Humanities teacher Terry Ashkinos leads his students in an interesting and challenging project: the creation of an entire book of short stories! With a help of a few prompts, each student produces rough drafts of three... Read more

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Children's Day School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

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