More than 1,000 stakeholder responses have been received by Hays CISD on the first draft of a proposed 2019-20 school calendar. The new calendar incorporates several components that come with being a District of Innovation (DOI), which was unanimously approved by the HCISD board trustees in December...

Innovative opportunities for Wimberley High students to learn and develop career-ready skills before graduation keeps one teacher thinking of new programs and collaborating with community members. Stephanie Breedyk, M.Ed., is Wimberley High’s Career Technology Education Practicum supervisor. Through...

When longtime Hays CISD director Leroy Gerdes first saw more than 130 students and alumni set up for a surprise Dec. 21 concert in his backyard, he stumbled upon what was the best kept secret in Buda. After all, keeping such a large production under wraps was a gargantuan effort. Music had to be qui...

Several months after hiring Johnson High’s first principal, Hays CISD has named the school’s inaugural athletic coordinator. Steve Hoffman, who is the current head football coach at Coriscana High and assistant athletic director for Corsicana ISD near Waco, was selected as Johnson High’s first athle...

A longtime fixture in Hays CISD’s fine arts department will become the inaugural band director at Johnson High when the campus opens in August 2019.  Joey Lucita, current head band director at Lehman High, was named as the first director to lead Johnson High’s concert and marching bands, according t...

The Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) elected Mary Jane Hetrick of Dripping Springs ISD to fill an interim position on the TASB Board of Directors, representing TASB Region 13, Position B. Hetrick is in her second term on the Dripping Springs ISD Board of Trustees. She is a 2017 Leadership T...

The Hays High Speech and Debate scored several awards at the 8th Annual Capitol Congress contest held at the Texas Capitol on Nov. 29.Student Congress is a speech and debate event where students write, present and debate legislation following the same procedural rules as state and national legislato...

Earlier this month, students at Dahlstrom Middle School created Christmas cards with the skills they mastered using pastels. Turning circles into spheres and spheres into ornaments as practice, they made cards to send to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for recovering soldiers. They ended up sending ...

Fifth-Grade students at Science Hall Elementary late last mont had the opportunity to participate in a Google Hangout with two different sides of the technology industry. Kevin Lee, a software engineer, discussed how he helps develop apps for the Iphone. Students also heard from Matthew Castanera Ba...

As a part of a continuing community service project, Wallace Middle School recently received special recognition from Charlotte Lund, Development & Special Events Coordinator of the Hays County Food Bank. Lund said Wallace Middle School students donated 1,735 pounds of food, which provided 87 famili...