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CAST Student Advisory Returns to Mexico

At CAST Schools, one of our four core pillars is Student Voice and Agency. Students act as co-creators and co-problem solvers at the school and beyond, offering ideas, posing new questions and authentically engaging in their education. Student-led learning promotes collaboration, development of leadership skills and the development of self-management, goal setting, self-advocacy, and student… Continue reading CAST Student Advisory Returns to Mexico

CAST Advocates for High-Quality Teacher Residency Programs

Jeanne Russell, CAST Schools’ Executive Director, Anastasia Perez, CAST Network’s Educator Engagement Coordinator, and Bryanna Zammaron, a high school teacher at CAST STEM, provided public testimonies to members of the State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC). The SBEC is responsible for overseeing the certification and licensure of educators in the state, and Dr. Cherylynn Jody… Continue reading CAST Advocates for High-Quality Teacher Residency Programs

CAST STEM High School Will Relocate to Palo Alto College

  SAN ANTONIO (September 20, 2023) – CAST STEM High School, the #1 engineering school on San Antonio’s Southside, will move to Palo Alto College to further its commitment to educational innovation and excellence, Southwest ISD, Palo Alto College and CAST Schools announced. CAST STEM Juniors and Seniors will relocate starting in January 2024, while… Continue reading CAST STEM High School Will Relocate to Palo Alto College

CAST Med Students Imagine New Healthcare Solutions for South San Antonio

On September 14, CAST Med launched CAST Imagines, where students met with industry professionals to discuss how to best serve their communities. Using a mantra of “do well and do good,” CAST Imagines builds on CAST Schools’ Core Pillars by connecting students to industry and other community leaders and promoting students as co-creators and co-problem solvers,… Continue reading CAST Med Students Imagine New Healthcare Solutions for South San Antonio

CAST Performs Three Years of Fear at Charline McCombs Empire Theatre

This past Friday, CAST Schools performed ‘Three Years of Fear’ adapted from the book ‘Tafolla Toro’ by Lorenzo Gomez III at the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre. ‘Tafolla Toro: Three Years of Fear’ recalls Lorenzo’s traumatic three years during middle school, and how he was able to overcome said trauma years later. This year’s performance of… Continue reading CAST Performs Three Years of Fear at Charline McCombs Empire Theatre

CAST Med High School Students Will Explore Healthcare and Education Challenges Facing San Antonio’s Southside in First CAST Imagines Event

SAN ANTONIO (September 13, 2023) – CAST Schools kicks off CAST Imagines this week, a student-led event designed to offer deeper understanding of and generate new possibilities for San Antonio in collaboration with their community. San Antonio’s Southside offers a unique opportunity to imagine solutions for healthcare, and CAST Med High School serves as the… Continue reading CAST Med High School Students Will Explore Healthcare and Education Challenges Facing San Antonio’s Southside in First CAST Imagines Event

CAST Teach Teacher Takeover

A Student’s guide through the First-Ever CAST Teach Teacher Takeover Experience   What is CAST Teach High School?   Most would say a school built for future educators, or a magnet school for future teachers. They aren’t wrong, but as a current CAST Teach student I can say that it’s so much more than that.… Continue reading CAST Teach Teacher Takeover

CAST Med Presents: CAST Imagines

Approximately one quarter of San Antonio’s population under 65 is without health insurance in City Council Districts 3 & 4, and tens of thousands of San Antonians are losing their Medicaid coverage due to the cancellation of pandemic-era expansion. Further, with only one hospital currently open on San Antonio’s Southside, colleges and universities and even… Continue reading CAST Med Presents: CAST Imagines

Welcome Back to School

CAST Familia, Welcome to a brand new year! At CAST, we see the new school year as a time of endless possibility, an opportunity to engage young people in a journey of self-discovery and purpose. COVID changed us all. And yet, as we move further away from that period, we see new openings and new… Continue reading Welcome Back to School

‘Three Years of Fear’ Returns to the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre

This year, CAST students will bring the play Three Years of Fear to the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre once again! In 2022 CAST students collaborated with local author Lorenzo Gomez III to adapt his book Tafolla Toro into a play, and they are doing so again this year. The performance and accompanying reflective activities have… Continue reading ‘Three Years of Fear’ Returns to the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre

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