{"id":22152,"date":"2025-05-22T17:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T17:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-school-district-honors-longtime-teacher-and-graduate\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:11:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:11:41","slug":"mancos-school-district-honors-longtime-teacher-and-graduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-school-district-honors-longtime-teacher-and-graduate\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos school district honors longtime teacher and graduate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a9b04da5-e8a4-511e-a88c-18b5d55573a5&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"958\" height=\"1254\" alt=\"Stephanie Slough graduated from Mancos High School in 1985 and is retiring from teaching in the district in 2025. (Mancos school district\/Courtesy photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Stephanie Slough graduated from Mancos High School in 1985 and is retiring from teaching in the district in 2025. (Mancos school district\/Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Mancos school district declared May 21 as \u201cStephanie Slough Appreciation Day\u201d to honor a longtime teacher and Mancos graduate as she prepares to retire.<\/p>\n<p>Slough graduated from Mancos High School in 1985 and worked as a teacher in the district. She will retire this school year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom her days as a student to her remarkable career as an educator, Stephanie has been a true source of pride for Mancos,\u201d Superintendent Todd Cordrey said. \u201cWe are deeply grateful for her years of dedicated service, unwavering care and her lasting impact on generations of Mancos Bluejays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Slough, the district released a proclamation of appreciation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhereas, Mancos schools are the key to a thriving community, creating, strengthening and maintaining the bridge between the school and community.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas, Mancos students have a right to a high-quality education,<\/p>\n<p>Whereas, Mancos staff works diligently to create and manage school and home partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas, Mancos teachers are on the front line in our battle against ignorance, insecurity and unrealized due outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas, there is no more noble and honorable profession than being a schoolteacher.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas, a career as a Mancos schoolteacher is the highest level of service one can provide in our community.<\/p>\n<p>Now, therefore,\u00a0the Mancos Board of Education does hereby proclaim Wednesday, May 21, 2025, as \u2018Stephanie Slough Appreciation Day.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Slough graduated from Mancos in the 1980s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[155,28,83,392,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-mancos","tag-mancos-school-district-re-6","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22152","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=22152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77595,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22152\/revisions\/77595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22152"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}