NEW: Houston ISD reports 136 — or nearly half — of its campuses are without power today.

Dozens of campuses have also sustained wind or tree damage after severe storms. More for Houston Chronicle: houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…

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🚨 Due to widespread damage across Houston, HISD has coordinated with the City of Houston and is closing all campuses on Friday, May 17. Schools will reopen on Monday, May 20.

I love this ScratchJr animated retelling of Jon Klassen's This is Not My Hat by a pair of Sinclair Elementary 1st graders! Houston ISD HISDNorthDiv CSTA Greater Houston CS Teachers Association (CSTA) #CreativeComputing

noun | one that practices sabotage

Sound on for the joyful cacophony created by Sinclair Elementary 3rd graders with the Scratch Team music extension blocks! CSTA Greater Houston HISDNorthDiv # #CreativeComputing

5th grade made some impressive Python Turtle art today. Sinclair Elementary CSTA Greater Houston HISDNorthDiv Houston ISD #CreativeComputing CS Teachers Association (CSTA)

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Good explanation of what you saw last night...for us this far South, we see a lot of the reddish pink because at our latitude, we see the upper altitude mostly. We in the South experienced something very unique and possibly once in a lifetime for those that were curious...

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Still have your solar viewing glasses from last month’s eclipse?

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If you have sunny skies, you can currently see a huge sunspot group on the Sun with nothing more than your solar viewing glasses. ☀️

Meanwhile, there's this original story written, programmed, illustrated, animated, and narrated by a 1st grader Sinclair Elementary that is obviously not my favorite (because I don't do favorites). Made w/ ScratchJr. Houston ISD HISDNorthDiv CSTA Greater Houston #CreativeComputing

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Wouldn't call it a favorite of course, but I sure am impressed with this LED sequence a couple 4th graders built and coded this morning. This is their first program written in Python! Sinclair Elementary HISDNorthDiv CSTA Greater Houston Raspberry Pi Foundation

📣It's #Scratch Week 2024! We're delighted to have so many FREE micro:bit & Scratch linked activities for you to participate in and get learners coding 🆓!
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Our Sinclair Elementary 1st graders planned story retells on paper, and now are using ScratchJr to animate those retellings! Houston ISD HISDNorthDiv CSTA Greater Houston #CreativeComputing

Over it.

A gallery of toads who are who don't have time for foolishness.

Show ‘em some ❤️ during #AmphibianWeek , especially since they feed on insects.

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Our Sinclair Elementary 4th graders finished the week with an introduction to text based programming in Python. They did an awesome job! Really impressed by how they creatively adapted the starter programs! Houston ISD HISDNorthDiv CSTA Greater Houston

For nearly 100 years, four dams on the Klamath River have violated tribal rights, blocked salmon migration and poisoned the river. Amy Bowers Cordalis is the Yurok tribal attorney supporting the community-focused, Indigenous-led work to bring them down.

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