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Happy Juneteenth! It is a momentous day in the history of our country. Please see below a message from the School about this new national holiday, and an important decision from the U.S. Board of Education: This year, we have witnessed an awakening in social justice movements amidst a global pandemic. From Black Lives Matter marches, to supporting civil rights for our LGBTQ+ communities, to the rising awareness of Asian American Pacific Islander Anti-Hate campaigns, people wo...rldwide have been standing up together against social injustices. It is important for our students to see that their voices matter, and that change is possible. Yesterday, President Biden signed into law a bill creating a federal holiday to commemorate June 19, or Juneteenth, the day marking the end of slavery in the United States. This will be the first new federal holiday created by Congress since the designation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983, in honor of the civil-rights leader. According to The Wall Street Journal, Congressional leaders from both parties said that establishing the holiday was an important gesture in recognizing those who suffered under American slavery and as an act of racial reconciliation. And, on this same day, the U.S. Department of Education issued a Notice of Interpretation, explaining that it will enforce Title IX's prohibition on discrimination on the basis of sex to include sexual orientation and gender identity in the nation's schools. U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said, "The Department makes clear that all students including LGBTQ+ students deserve the opportunity to learn and thrive in schools that are free from discrimination." After a year of increased isolation from the pandemic, and with many LGBTQ+ students facing additional challenges in schools, this is a welcome and necessary change. It is such an important day for our students to see that positive change can occur. One of the main tenets of our San Domenico core values is reflection, and we wanted to share this news and ask each of us to reflect upon the positive changes that can happen when we bond together as a community and fight for social justice. Just as hope is growing with the introduction of an effective vaccine against a deadly disease, so hope is growing anew as we, as a country, take important steps in the march towards social equity. There is much work to be done as a community and as a country. San Domenico will continue to teach and learn as one community, and to grow future leaders who advocate for social justice. And now, we pause in gratitude for the positive changes resulting from our collective societal efforts.

Congratulations to Julia Reinhard '18!!

With our San Domenico mission to celebrate diversity and recognize what it means to be human in a global community and respond with integrity to the needs and challenges of our time, we wish all a Happy Pride Month. #pridemonth #community

Congratulations again to the Class of 2021! You are resilient, brave, brilliant and we love you. Your colleges are lucky to get you! Thank you teachers, Trustees, parents, guardians, RFs, counselors, deans, and friends. None of us could have made it through this year without you. We are STRONGER TOGETHER! Happy summer!

CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2021!! YOU DID IT!! We are all so happy to have families and students in person to celebrate the graduating class of 2021! We wish you all the best as you step into your new adventures.

Our creative students deliver for this year's Lower and MIddle School Arts in Action. Budding artists in Grades K-8 found much inspiration in the past year, and created art for a virtual gallery tour.

We are so happy to be able to celebrate our Seniors graduating in person this year! Limited to four members of the family, and socially distanced with masks on, but we'll all be together again! #StrongerTogether

Biology students use chalk art to illustrate how vaccinations work. Knowledge is power.

The end of the year is coming up but the action on campus has not slowed down one bit. Among all sorts of other compelling teaching and learning, the firefighting goats are back, AP Economics students just won Third Place in the CA State Championships, Film Three students are wrapping up their final project, Biology students are illustrating how vaccines work (with chalk art), and our seniors are getting ready to graduate!!! --

Congratulations to Brett Simpson ‘12 on her 2021 Outstanding Young Alumni Award. This newly created award acknowledges and highlights an alum that has graduated within the last ten years. We are delighted to present this honor to Brett as her work continues to embody the San Domenico values of Study, Reflection, Service and Community in her professional life and her service to the community. Brett Simpson is a print and audio journalist who focuses on the intersections of he...alth, the environment, and human rights. She is currently completing her Master’s degree at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where she leads an investigative team digging into injustices in the elder care industry. This summer, she will travel to the Norwegian Arctic to pursue a fellowship with support from the Human Rights Center and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. There, she will document the systemic fragmentation of Saami indigenous lands for planned resource extraction and renewable energy projects, threatening the livelihoods and cultural continuity of marginalized communities in the fastest-changing region of the world.

Congratulations to Sarah Lee ’07, Ph.D., on her 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award. We are delighted to present this honor to Sarah as her work continues to embody the San Domenico values of Study, Reflection, Service and Community in her professional life and her service to the community. Sarah is an assistant professor at Dominican University of California, where she teaches Organizational Behavior, Leadership, Change Management, Strategic Management, and Innovative Organizati...onal Interventions. Her research primarily studies how social psychological processes affect our attitudes and behaviors in organizations. Specifically, she is interested in unpacking barriers to upward mobility for marginalized groups, why external threats cause shifts in our perceptions, and why some people are perceived more leader-like than others. She has work published in Psychological Science and the Academy of Management Proceeding. Congratulations, Sarah! See more

Mrs. Churchill’s 12th Grade Human Biology class took to chalk art to illustrate how a Covid vaccine works. Here’s to our future SD scientists!

In case you missed this inspiring and witty survival anthem our teachers made, "I'm Still Teaching" is a ode to all of the teachers and educators who showed up for their students day after day throughout this pandemic. Teachers rock, especially SD teachers!

The pandemic will not slow our Class of 2021 celebrations and we were so excited to welcome them back to campus for Senior Day!

The Class of 2021 is back on campus now too and we celebrated with Senior Day! Seniors, we’re here for you and we won’t let this pandemic stop the many special events we have planned for you. #classof2021

Welcome back to campus, Eleventh Graders! It was a happy day to see our Juniors together in person. #sdstrongertogether

Tenth Grade continued the on campus learning trend, and we couldn’t be happier to see more Upper School students in person! Welcome back! #SDStrongerTogether

Attention SD Alumni! Fun event alert! SD Alumni Cline Cellars Wine Tasting November 19, 2020 5-6:00 pm PDT... Zoom link will be sent to registered participants. See more

We had the absolute joy of welcoming back our Ninth Graders to campus today! We truly are #StrongerTogether.

Go Panthers! Checking in on Fall sports activities with Athletics Director, Mark Churchill.

A little 6’ apart stretching and movement break is highly recommended for kids 1-100! Thank you Coach Jeni!

We could not be more happy to welcome more of our students back to campus this week! Our Super Hero teachers have now added Safety Orientation Training to their impressive array of skills and on-campus COVID testing is smooth and easy thanks to food and drink station nearby from The Epicurean Group. This is team work at its finest!

We wish our families a joyous Mid-Autumn Festival today! Enjoy a heartfelt presentation by students from our Upper School Asian Student Association about the rich cultural traditions surrounding the festival, and lantern-making by our Sixth Grade Mandarin Class in this News Item: https://bit.ly/SDmidautumnfestival2020.

SD Senior Vincenzo Calcagno studied with world renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman this summer. See the News Item here: http://bit.ly/studywithitzhak for the fascinating story of one of our many talented Virtuoso Program musicians. #SDStudentSpotlight

SD's Community Art Board is always filled with inspiring creativity & quotes. This one by our incredible Art Teacher, Suzanne Kelly, honors the great Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the many ways in which we hope her legacy will live on.

We had a wonderful day welcoming back Sixth Graders to campus, joining Grades K-5. Thank you to all the enthusiastic teachers, students, parents, and faculty. Bus service started today as well! #SDStrongerTogether #GoSDPanthers