Cody High School

Welcome Back from Principal Solomon

Dear Parents and Guardians:

Welcome back to what promises to be a productive, progressive, and safe year for our Cody community! A new school year is an opportunity to approach our collective work with intention and continuous improvements.  You are the most important influence in your child’s life.  Therefore, we need you to play a key role in the on-going positive transformation of our school.  Your partnership, feedback, ideas, solutions, expectations, and active participation on this educational journey will help us become the change you wish to see in the school and the community. We owe it to our students and the future of our community to work collaboratively, to be solution-oriented, to be accountable to each other, to control our narrative by amplifying the good, to get involved and commit to doing the work that’s needed to cultivate a safe, orderly, healthy, caring, and positive environment for learning to THRIVE and to yield high results. As the building principal of Detroit Frank Cody High School, I invite you to partner with us on a collaborative journey to serve the academic, social, and emotional needs of our students.  They are our most prized possession and the world’s most valuable resource.  Therefore, let’s work together to give them our very best.  

It is our earnest desire, responsibility, and fundamental purpose to create conditions for learning to occur.  Therefore, all that we do will have a direct impact on teaching and learning.  It is our belief that all students can learn at high levels if provided with authentic caring relationships with adults, a safe positive and supportive learning environment, high quality instruction, and timely interventions or enrichment to enhance the learning experience.  Because of our beliefs, we have committed ourselves to working collaboratively with you to ensure that all students will receive systematic individual supports, skills, competencies, and tools to ensure their success.  We also need you to please join us for all school events, parent-teacher conferences, to monitor student progress online through PowerSchool, to get involved in school partnerships, to build healthy and collaborative relationships with our staff, and to pour positive communications into our community about our school/district because this represents us and the diplomas that our students will earn. 

On behalf of the entire Cody Comet staff, we thank you for entrusting us with your child and we look forward to working in collaboration with you to ensure that every Cody Comet is proficient and/or prepared for their college and career aspirations. 

We are prepared to joyously embark upon a new school year as your partner in education ready to serve the diverse academic, social, and emotional needs of our amazing teenagers who are transitioning into adulthood.

Onward & Upward,

Jason Solomon

Mr. Jason Solomon

School Principal

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Karla Seale is a proud product of Detroit public schools and is exciting to be back home. Karla originally was a middle and high school English teacher in DPS. She went on to become an instructional coach and later an Assistant Principal. She has spent several years as an instructional leader throughout the city of Detroit. Karla has participated and led various professional developments around building capacity of secondary educators in areas of classroom management, curriculum development, and instructional strategies to improve student learning.

Karla Seale is excited to be part of the administrative team as Assistant Principal of Cody High school as she was once a Comet! It is important to her personally to ensure that the very diverse needs of students and families of DPSCD are met. Karla is a wife and mother of 5 children. She looks forward to being a part of the educational shifts that occur as DPSCD grows as a premier educational system. 

2022-23 Welcome Letter

Dear Parents and Cody Community,

On behalf of the staff at Cody High School, I am happy to welcome you to the 2022-2023 school

year! We are looking forward to a productive partnership with you to ensure our children can

achieve their highest potential. We recognize that in order to be successful in school, our

children need support from both the home and school. We know a strong partnership with you

will make a great difference in your child’s education. As partners, we share the responsibility

for our children’s success and want you to know that we will do our very best to carry out our

responsibilities. We ask that you guide and support your child’s learning by ensuring that

they:

1) Attend school daily and arrive on time, ready for the day’s learning experience.

2) Completes all work assignments given by their teachers.

3) Reads daily to develop a love for reading and to improve literacy skills.

4) Shares school experiences with you so that you are aware of his/her school life.

5) Informs you if he/she needs additional support in any area or subject.

Again, we are committed to partnering with all members of our school communities to ensure safe, healthy spaces for each and every student and leveraging the assets they bring.  Best wishes for a very successful school year!

Thor Hicks

Dean of Culture

Cody High School

“Onward & Upward”

ABOUT DEAN HICKS

Mr. Thor Hicks is the Dean of Culture at Cody High School. He has been at Cody since 2015 serving as the Dean of Culture in the Detroit Institute of Technology Academy. He has been in education for 12 years. He was a building sub and an attendance agent at Northwestern before becoming the Dean at Northwestern. He received his Bachelor's and Master's in Counseling at Wayne State University. He believes that we should teach our students to discipline themselves so no one else will have to and that students should be proactive in their own education.

Brandon Seays is a native Detroiter and the newest member of Cody High schools administration team.  Seays joined the Cody staff in February of 2024 as Dean of Student Culture. 

Seays received his degree in Sports Management from The University of Olivet in Michigan.  Seays has over 13 years in the field of Education, working in Restorative Justice, Coaching Football and as a Dean of Culture with various school districts within the Metropolitan area.

As Dean, he strives to encourage the youth to find better ways to resolve their conflicts.  He intends to motivate and educate students on ways to avoid conflict all together.  "I wanted to give back to the community I grew up in and joining the Detroit Public School Community District was the perfect place."  Dean Seays is married with 4 children and a family dog.  He believes that his presence at Cody will assist with the continuous rise to excellence as he does his part to love, challenge and prepare the bright minds at Cody High School.

Administrators at Cody High School have Office Hours set aside for you!!  Our Dean's of Culture are unavailable during the (2) Lunch hours as they both are on Lunch Duty.

LUNCH DUTY

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