Dorado Family Updates 1.24.24

Welcome to the 2nd semester of the 2022-2023 school year! We hope that you all had a wonderful winter break and holiday season, and of course, a happy new year to you all! We have just a few reminders for you!

Newsletter Topics Include:

• Calendar
• What's Happening: Attendance Matters, Teen Maze for 10th Graders, Future Dorado Night, IB Registration, Prom Info, Tutoring, Oro Valley Cup, Tucson Spring College Fair
• DID YOU KNOW: 8th Graders visit CDO, Health Office, Special Olympics, HOSA, Theatre, Envrionmental Club, Academic Decathlon, Pomline, Pima JTED
• Athletics Updates
• Clubs Updates
• CDO Counseling

• January 23: 8th Grade CTE Visit
• January 24: District Spelling Bee @ CDO!
• February 6: Teen Maze for 10th Graders
• February 7: Future Dorado Night (for all incoming 9th graders, open enrollment, interested students and families)
• February 22-23: Rodeo Break (NO SCHOOL)
• March 18 - 22: Spring Break (NO SCHOOL)

The state of Arizona defines excessive absencess as 10% of a school year. As we operate on a 178 day school year, anything in excess of nine (9) days each semester would be considered excessive.

Therefore, beginning this semester, a student can only have nine (9) days marked as an “Excused” absence in each of their classes without administrative approval. This does not include school sponsored events, activities or appointments. Parents will begin to receive notifications at 3, 6 and 9 days of absences. If a student hits 10 absences, in order to have the absence excused, they will need to contact administration.

It is important that students understand the following:

• When a student has an “Unexcused” absence in a class period, a student may still be able to earn credit for missed and made up learning opportunities, but also may only receive partial credit or NO credit.
• Students will always be provided with the chance to make up missed learning opportunities. This does not necesarily mean that they will be receiving full credit.
• Students are expected to attend school each and every day, but we do understand that emergencies and illness occur. Please ensure that excused absences are communicated directly to the attendance line within no more than 24 hours.
• The natural consequence of accumulating excessive absences is that beginning with the 10th absence in a semester, they will ALL automatically be considered “Unexcused” moving forward per the state of Arizona.
• STUDENTS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO LOSE credit for making up missed work (learning opportunities) on these days. The more absences a student has accrued after the ninth (9th), the greater their potential for not passing the course and thus not earning credit.
  

Finally, parents will be receiving communication regarding their students’ attendance when their student/s hits 3, 6 & 9 absences via email. A phone dialer will be starting soon to inform parents of attendance markings for their student. Please keep in mind that Infinite Campus Parent Portal also provides real-time attendance for students and parents, in addition to grades.

Our Dorado Community is a partnership in setting the stage for students to succeed. We need your help to make sure that our students are in school every day that they can be. Together, we can open doors for our kiddos in the future!

CDO will be hosting Teen Maze on Tuesday, February 6th, for all 10th graders.

Teen Maze is an interactive, 30-minute event focused on decision-making and the consequences of using drugs and alcohol.

Who is involved? The stations will be run by volunteers from the school and the community. Volunteers at each station will have a script that guides them through a discussion with the students, including a scenario and consequences, then discussing with the students how the decision affects them, their friends, and their family, what they could do differently, and how they could move on.

Why? To get students to think about decision-making, emphasizing non-fatal, unintended consequences of using alcohol, marijuana, and prescription drugs. The goal is to educate teens, increase the perception of risk and harm of alcohol, marijuana, and prescription drugs, and change their behaviors around these substances.

Course selections for the 2024-2025 school year will be starting soon! 9th, 10th and 11th graders will be meeting with counselors through their English classes to review the process and timeline for course requests for next year.

Students, their parents, and guardians interested in meeting with Amy Bomke, our IB coordinator, can do so here: https://calendly.com/abomke/ib-advising

Reasons to meet might include:

• the goals and benefits of the International Baccalaureate Programme
• what makes a good candidate for IB classes and the IB Diploma Programme
• what courses are available to 11th and 12th grade students
• what classes should 9th and 10th grade students take to prepare for IB

Prom tickets are not on sale yet, but here is what you need to know:

When: April 20th - 7PM

Where: Savoy Opera House - 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road 22, Tucson, Arizona 85715

The Class of 2024 Resource page is now live! Senior parents, make sure to bookmark this page as we will be updating it with important information throughout the semester. CLICK HERE!

We welcomed our Future Dorados to visit our campus this week! 8th graders from Cross Middle School and Mt. Vista Middle School ventured over to CDO today to tour our campus and programs. Thank you to our amazing CTE teachers, Counselors and Link Crew Leaders for making this day happen. We are excited to officially welcome you, Class of 2028!

Health Office will be partnering with The Amphi audiology department will be conducting our yearly 9th grade hearing screens on Tuesday, January 30th, if parents do not want their student screened, they need to come to the health office to complete and opt out form.

CDO had two unified basketball teams compete at the Amphi High Special Olympics Basketball Tournament on January 23rd. Unified teams included athletes with disabilities and partners without disabilities competing alongside one another. Teams from Mountain View HS, Marana HS, and Palo Verde HS also participated. It was a great tournament to prepare all the teams for the area competition on February 17th at Sporting Chance. Let's come out and show our support for these amazing Dorados.

HOSA is holding a food drive for the Arizona Community Food Bank from now until the end of February. Please help us help those that are in need.

HOSA is entering the competition phase of the year and will be holding the first round of testing next week. This is an opportunity for students to compete at the national level and network with peers and healthcare professionals from around the world.

HOSA will be taking students to the HOSA Region 4 Conference at Pima Medical Institute on February 16th to compete for a chance to go to the International Conference in the summer.

CDO Senior, Makena Dundon, was selected as 1 of the 100 outstanding high school students across the United States to attend the Disney Dreamers Academy in Walt Disney World. During this 5-day expense paid event, she will meet with industry mentors, attend career workshops, and develop skills to help her dreams of becoming a Disney Imagineer come true.

Makena’s picture was featured on the display at Times Square and on Good Morning America earlier this week!

HUGE congratulations to advanced and symposium theatre classes. Over the weekend, they competed in Southern Arizona festival of theatre and EVERY SINGLE performer took home a superior. Our troupe received 6 awards total. So proud of all of your hard work!

Environmental Club would like to thank everyone that came out to support the fundraiser night at Chipotle. It was a big success! We are looking for volunteers who have skill working with irrigation systems to help us fine tune the rain garden's irrigation. Please contact cpechuzal@amphi.com if you can help.

At the last scrimmage before the regional competition, the CDO Academic Decathlon team traveled to Basha High School to face 10 other teams in a very competitive contest. Led by strong performances by Kevin Neese and Julia Smith, CDO finished second, losing only to perennial powerhouse Hamilton High School. Winning awards were Kevin, Evan Lehner, Julia, Zoe Guymon, Austin Christian, Bella Stewart, Henry Anicker, and Spencer Hollings. The team also finished first in the Super Quiz Relay, the exciting public portion of the Academic Decathlon.

Next up is our regional competition in Morenci, AZ on February 2 and 3. We will attempt to win our 23rd consecutive regional championship.

Pomline competed at the AIA Spiritline State competition over the weekend. They finished 11th in state in Division 2 and finished 10th in the Open Jazz!

Please join us in the Library, January 29th during 7th period if you would like to enroll in the JTED program.

Please visit our Athletics website for updates and information about the current season and upcoming Spring Season.

Spring Sports include:

• Baseball
• Softball
• Indoor Boys' Volleyball
• Girls' Beach Volleyball
• Girls' and Boys' Tennis

SPRING SPORTS INFO:

• Those wishing to participate in Spring sports need to register on the electronic Activate platform.
• Athletes need to register AND pay fees well before the first day of tryouts, Feb. 5th at noon.
• The mandatory athletic parent meeting is Feb 8th at 5:00 pm and Feb 12th at 7am in the cafeteria. Attendance is necessary before athletes can compete.

CDO has over 60 clubs for students to join throughout the year. Take a look below at our latest list for the 2023-2024 school year. You can click the image for a better view.

Tara Bulleigh, Principal

Canyon del Oro High School

An International Baccalaureate World School

Office: (520) 696-5565

Email: tbulleigh@amphi.com
Website: https://www.amphi.com/CDO
Location: 25 West Calle Concordia, Tucson, AZ, USA
Phone: 5206965560
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CDOHighSchool
Twitter: @CdOHighSchool