CAST Med is a public high school in San Antonio ISD SAN ANTONIO – CAST Med is a local public high school in San Antonio ISD that helps students focus on the medical field and get a jump start on their passion and their future. Just a few weeks into the semester, these students are putting… Continue reading New San Antonio school emphasizes healthy eating and de-stressing

A first-of-its-kind program in Texas – and possibly the country – has begun at tech-career-focused high school CAST Tech in the San Antonio Independent School District. Students at the downtown school founded in 2017 began on Monday a user-experience, or UX, career pathway that entails three years of coursework learning the design discipline that has… Continue reading Students, Teachers Help Create User Experience Course at CAST Tech

At 8:06 a.m. a school bus pulled into the front circle of what was once a Brooks Air Force Base facility. Dozens of freshmen spilled from the bus doors, wearing blazers and heels, ties and dress shirts, and nervous smiles for a first day of ninth grade at the new CAST Med High School. New… Continue reading CAST Med High School Opens Doors to First Freshman Class

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