{"id":102339,"date":"2017-12-21T17:55:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T00:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/swos-holds-gallery-night-for-students-parents\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T17:55:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T00:55:50","slug":"swos-holds-gallery-night-for-students-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/swos-holds-gallery-night-for-students-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"SWOS holds Gallery Night for students, parents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=74bcf77d-7d08-4d09-afac-a7046430c76c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=74bcf77d-7d08-4d09-afac-a7046430c76c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=74bcf77d-7d08-4d09-afac-a7046430c76c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=74bcf77d-7d08-4d09-afac-a7046430c76c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Chad Wheelus, humanities instructor at Southwest Open School, explains parts of his class to students and teachers at the SWOS Gallery Night on Dec. 19.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Chad Wheelus, humanities instructor at Southwest Open School, explains parts of his class to students and teachers at the SWOS Gallery Night on Dec. 19.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Emily Rice\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Southwest Open School hosted a Gallery Night on Dec. 19 to celebrate student learning through the academic semester of the school year.<\/p>\n<p>Parents, guardians and family of students were invited.<\/p>\n<p>They participated in a \u201cmock school day,\u201d in which students explained what they learned in each class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are trying to do is a little bit of a mock day to show you what your students\u2019 day looks like,\u201d said Chad Wheelus, SWOS humanities instructor.<\/p>\n<p>The night also included a \u201ctransition ceremony\u201d for students with the right number of credits to move up \u201chouses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Casey Simpson, Academic Lead and humanities teacher at SWOS, the house and credit system replaces the grading system of a public school model.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson hoped the event would engage parents, families and guardians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it helps the students \u2013 it validates their work,\u201d Simpson said. \u201cIt helps the parents understand what their day looks like and it helps parents engage with staff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students showcase what they have learned in the academic semester<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[1183,21,13,216],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-102339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-charter-schools","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-montezuma-cortez-school-district-re-1"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102339"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=102339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}