East Central Independent School District will spend the 2019-20 school year planning a new school in the CAST network focused on leadership and management in the retail, hospitality, tourism, and e-commerce industries. CAST Lead is expected to open in fall 2020 as part of a partnership between East Central ISD and the CAST network of… Continue reading East Central ISD’s CAST School To Focus on Leadership in Tourism, Hospitality Industries

CAST STEM High School, the career-themed school for advanced manufacturing, engineering, energy and logistics, will move from its current home in Legacy High School to its own building in August with the help of $2 million that H-E-B and the Charles Butt Foundation donated Thursday to the Southwest Independent School District. CAST STEM’s initial class… Continue reading With $2 million gift, San Antonio’s CAST STEM gets its own building

To cheer myself up during standardized testing month for my public school kids, I chatted recently with folks in the “project-based learning” arena of education. One way to understand “project-based learning” is that it is the next evolution of what used to be known as “vocational” school training. It means businesspeople working hard to introduce… Continue reading Project-based learning — kids get skills, employers get skilled workers

SAN ANTONIO — What do you get when you put crazy smart, and crazy driven together? You get this guy… “I’m Carlos Lara, senior at Southwest High School.” To understand Carlos Lara, is to understand this one comment, “My best advice is don’t waste your time.” “My family has really high expectations for everyone in… Continue reading Student gets jump on career in tech industry thanks to Toyota

Are entrepreneurship and traditional education totally at odds? Can practical business skills only be learned on the job? Or can we teach this at school? And if so, how do we teach in a school setting the key skills of launching and running companies and succeeding in business? In early March, I attended my first… Continue reading San Antonio school trying to ‘flip the script,’ foster entrepreneurship and creativity

In partnership with UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio ISD is opening a new career-themed high school for students interested in the medical field. Listen to the full audio here. The campus, located on the Brooks development on the city’s South side, is called CAST Med. SAISD is currently taking applications for its first cohort of… Continue reading CAST Med High School Aims To Develop Homegrown Medical Talent In San Antonio

Inside a cubicle of high glass walls, 18-year-old Angel Mosqueda held what looked like the largest-ever remote control, with a full keyboard underneath a screen the size of an Etch A Sketch. But the object the Legacy High School senior controlled was even more remarkable — a massive robotic arm holding a tiny dry-erase marker,… Continue reading Giant robot moves Southwest ISD students into career opportunities

SAN ANTONIO – As News 4 continues its yearlong commitment to explore inequality, San Antonio’s Silent Crisis, we’re learning how school administrators worked the phones to make sure kids from every walk of life could go to a competitive new high school. “I’m currently working on a website I’m building for my professional communications class,”… Continue reading SAISD works to make school choice equitable