{"id":16871,"date":"2025-08-16T14:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T20:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/swos-board-revamps-website-offers-after-school-activities-for-new-year\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:02:24","slug":"swos-board-revamps-website-offers-after-school-activities-for-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/swos-board-revamps-website-offers-after-school-activities-for-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"SWOS board revamps website, offers after-school activities for new year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=50a6b463-ec30-41e6-afef-40d52a789019&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1352\" alt=\"Southwest Open School closed and canceled classes on Thursday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Southwest Open School closed and canceled classes on Thursday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>At its first meeting of the 2025-26 school year, the Southwest Open School board reviewed its strategic plan and professional development report for August, while celebrating recent campus improvements.<\/p>\n<p>The board highlighted updates to its website and renovations to the La Plata and La Casa buildings, which received new stucco and wainscoting. The Chaco building\u2019s flooring was also completed.<\/p>\n<p>The updated website outlines current after-school programs and activities. Right now, after-school offerings include E-sports and board games. Full details are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southwestopenschool.org\" id=\"link-b2d26f4d824346079ee80e1d0b38bc25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.southwestopenschool.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An art installation for the community is planned for September.<\/p>\n<p>The board also discussed the renewed emphasis on the student portfolio process, supported by updated grading and attendance policies.<\/p>\n<p>Several grants were awarded for the school year, some extending beyond it. Notable awards include a $16,972 LOR grant to support esports and biking clubs, and a Daniels Fund grant to complete the four-seasons greenhouse and update drip irrigation lines.<\/p>\n<p>Additional funding includes a $14,480 LOR grant and a $5,933 grant from the Montezuma County Emergency Food and Shelter Program to provide food and snacks for students.<\/p>\n<p>SWOS also received a reengagement grant totaling $100,000 for the next school year, part of a three-year award.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting concluded with an executive session to discuss expectations for meeting formats.<\/p>\n<p>The board\u2019s focus for September will be on Unified Improvement Plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>meeting was the first of the 2025-26 school year <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,155,28,60,29,2084],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-16871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter","tag-southwest-open-school"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16871","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=16871"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77208,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16871\/revisions\/77208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16871"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=16871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}