Student Congress

San Francisco Day School has a unique format for student government: Student Congress.  This distinction is important because it adopts the structure of US government with representatives and committees, and affords more opportunities for student leadership and collaboration grounded in real-life concepts. 

The student congress, made up of elected representatives, a boy and girl from each grade for grades five through eight, meets weekly with a faculty advisor. The students elected to the Congress serve on one or two mixed grade-level committees. These committees each have a distinct focus and foster working partnerships across grade levels:

• Finance and Resources Committee
• Student Life Committee
• Marketing and Development Committee
• Events Committee
• Community Outreach Committee

The goal of Student Congress is to instill a sense of civic responsibility as a citizen of our school, and encourage children to work together to set and achieve realistic and effective goals. Throughout the course of their term, students develop a deeper understanding of the day-to-day operations of the school and how it works, and learn organizational skills such as running meetings, planning agendas, creating calendars, and seeing through specific tasks.