The two of us.
A clinician and an education reformer — both faithful Christians, both unwilling to compromise on what their kids learn.
Dr. Dana Rodriguez
Co-Founder · Vitae Formation
A board-certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with a doctorate in nursing and more than two decades at the bedside of children. Dana has practiced in pediatric primary care, urgent care, and specialty settings.
She is the clinical lead of Vitae Health, the Christian telemedicine practice that gives Virtualis families a clinical home that shares their worldview. With Zeus, she co-authored the Quintivium series and the Vitae Formation body-and-soul curriculum it anchors.
Dana founded Vitae Catholica as the educational publisher of the Quintivium and is the mother of Benjamin and Eva.
Zeus Rodriguez
Co-Founder · Board President
A United States Navy veteran and cardiac surgical first assistant. Zeus served as president of St. Anthony School in Milwaukee — the largest K–12 Catholic school in the country — and has consulted for charter networks across Arizona and Wisconsin on school governance, regulatory compliance, financial sustainability, and strategic growth.
His conviction: parents are the primary educators of their children, and a Christian school exists to serve the home, not replace it. Virtualis is his part in the renewal of classical Christian education.
Zeus is the husband of Dana, the father of Benjamin and Eva, and writes on classical Christian education at The Restoration.
Why we built this.
We built Virtualis as a Christian classical school that takes the whole child seriously — mind, body, and soul — and we built it for our own children first.
Dana has spent more than two decades in pediatric practice. She has seen firsthand what mainstream medicine and standard school health curricula leave out. Zeus served as president of the largest Catholic K–12 school in the country and has consulted for school networks across Arizona and Wisconsin. Between us, we have spent a long time inside two institutions — pediatric medicine and Christian schools — that have lost a clear picture of what the human person is. Virtualis is our answer.
The school pairs Great Hearts academics with the Quintivium body-and-soul formation curriculum and Christian telemedicine for every family. It is built on a simple conviction: parents are the primary educators of their children, and a Christian school exists to serve the home, not to replace it.
It is also our part in the renewal of classical Christian education. That renewal is the work of our generation, and it runs through schools, parishes, and families that take the formation of children seriously. We have spent our adult lives forming for it. Virtualis is what we have to offer.
If that is the school you have been looking for, we would be glad to talk.
— Dana & Zeus Rodriguez
Co-Founders, Virtualis
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”— Proverbs 22:6
Our six convictions.
The beliefs that shape every decision we make at Virtualis.
Parents are the primary educators
Not the school. You. We exist to serve families — never to replace them.
Every child bears the image of God
The imago Dei is the foundation of human dignity. Every student is treated as a soul of infinite worth.
Truth is objective
Truth is real, knowable, and revealed by God — not constructed by culture or manufactured by consensus.
The body is a temple, not a machine
The body is a sacred gift to be reverenced and rightly understood — not biological material to be managed.
Faith and reason are partners
As John Paul II wrote, they are the two wings on which the human spirit rises. We refuse to separate them.
Classical education forms saints & scholars
The tradition that produced Augustine, Aquinas, and Newman can still form young men and women today.
Questions Families Ask Us
Dana has spent more than two decades in pediatric practice and built Vitae Health and Vitae Formation in answer to what she saw missing in mainstream pediatric medicine and standard school health curricula. Zeus served as president of the largest Catholic K–12 school in the country and has consulted for school networks across Arizona and Wisconsin. Virtualis is the school we wanted for our own children before it was anything else, and our part in the renewal of classical Christian education.
Virtualis is a Christian classical school in the Catholic intellectual tradition. We welcome families of all Christian traditions who are drawn to classical education, the Great Books, and a vision of the human person rooted in faith.
Yes. We believe every family deserves a real conversation before a real decision. Request a call and we will be in touch.
Vitae Formation is the K–12 Christian curriculum Dana and Zeus authored together — a coherent framework for anatomy, virtue, Christian bioethics, the theology of the body, and physical education, rooted in the truth that every human person is made in the image of God. Its intellectual spine is the Quintivium series. Vitae Formation is taught alongside the Great Hearts Online classical core, and it is what most of our families come to us for.
The reason for all of this.
