Karen Janowski

Passionate about helping struggling learners through the use of technology. #ATchat organizer. Co-Author Inclusive Learning 365, a book every educator needs!

[Karen Janowski @KarenJan]

@cliftonaduncan Please record it for those of us who can’t be there but were supporters

[ISTE+ASCD @ISTE_ASCD]

Most PD doesn’t fail because educators lack commitment.
It fails because it ignores the people in the room.

In a new article from ISTE+ASCD, Elena Aguilar shares 3 moves that make professional learning stick:
• Know your people

• Focus on one outcome

• Build in application

https://t.co/9B79xZpgtb

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

To all those who follow me because of @xx_xyathletics and who are now telling me to stop talking about covid...

Let me just explain a few things -- and why that isn't going to happen.

The only reason I'm even active on @X is because of covid. The only reason I have any following at all is because of covid.

Why? Because I objected to school closures and lockdowns from day 1. I lost my career, my city, pretty much all of my friends. Because I said closed schools, closed playgrounds, and masking were harming our kids.

We all suffered the most egregious violations of our civil liberties imaginable during lockdowns. I will never understand why people don't care and want to just pretend it never happened.

We couldn't leave our homes. Literally. We were told we couldn't see family, celebrate the holidays. We couldn't move about freely. We were censored. We couldn't gather or protest (unless it was for BLM, then it was ok). People couldn't go to church or AA meetings. For years!

Two year olds were forced to wear masks for hours a day. They suffered speech and developmental delays. That continue to this day.

Public school students in blue states were kept out of full time school for a year and a half. While their private school peers attended school and played sports. The most vulnerable children were harmed the most.

People couldn't work. 27M people lost their jobs in 2020. 27M!!

People couldn't visit loved ones in the hospital. People died alone. Women gave birth alone.

People were arrested for surfing. In the ocean - alone.

The world shut down. Supply chains stopped. That initiated the inflation we still are struggling to beat back.

I've been a covid dissident since March 2020. Children were harmed. They are still suffering from learning loss and the emotional impact of isolation and halted development. For some, the course of their lives was altered forever. They dropped out of school. Or fell behind and never caught up. Disengaged and never re-engaged. Drugs. Eating disorders. Suicidal ideation. Attempted suicide. Oh and the by way, the trans madness accelerated during lockdowns. Why? Isolation, terminal on-line-ness, depression, anxiety, all of it. Caused by lockdowns.

This is not something I will forgive. Or forget. You can't treat kids like prisoners and expect them to be ok (that is quote from a parent in Generation Covid - a parent who lost his child to suicide in 2021.)

I started making this documentary in 2022, and followed children and families who were harmed for 2 full years. It's called Generation-Covid.

Don't look away.

[Karen Janowski @KarenJan]

@cliffweitzman Congratulations, Cliff! I remember when you recited the first chapter of the first Harry Potter book at an AT hands on booth at IDAC in Atlanta, advocating for AT for all! You never stopped.

[Karen Janowski @KarenJan]

@DTWillingham @markseidenberg And what is frequently overlooked in this discussion are the unique needs of students with cognitive delays or complex bodies. The SoR is not set up for their success in acquiring reading skills. See the work of Karen Erickson out of U of NC.

[U.S. Department of Education @usedgov]

Attention parents and teachers of high schoolers!

Encourage your students to enter the Presidential 1776 Award civics competition, testing students in grades 9-12 on our nation's founding history: https://t.co/AQCAKgEMG7 #America250

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

if you need a break from crazy get ready to laugh

[Matt Couch @RealMattCouch]

Charlie was brilliant, I’ll be doing this from now on as well.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

Like all of you, I am utterly stunned and heartbroken and sick to my soul today. It is unimaginable to write these words. I met Charlie Kirk when he was 18 years old, a young man so eager and determined that I immediately turned to a friend and said, “That kid is going to be the head of the RNC one day.” Charlie became even bigger and more important than that. It was a privilege to watch this principled man stand up for his beliefs and create the single most important conservative political organization in America. But more importantly, Charlie was a good man, a man who believed in right and wrong, who stood by his Biblical values. All of us will miss him, and I can’t imagine the pain of his beautiful young family, and we must all pray for them. And we must pick up the baton where Charlie left it, fighting for the things he believed in so passionately. And we must fight for a better America - an America where good people can speak truth and debate passionately without fear of a bullet. I weep for Charlie’s family, and I weep for my country today. Most of all, I weep for Charlie.

[Jordyn Zimmerman @jordynbzim]

Check out my paper in the Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Journal, Beyond access: the intersecting role of AAC, literacy, and technology.
https://t.co/8mCjWyJCaX

[Karen Janowski @KarenJan]

Thrilled to be part of this! #istelive2025

[Kim Zajac @ZajacSLP]

Bey folks! Be sure to stop by the House of Possibilities Playground today from 10am-12pm!

Scan the QR Code for deets! #Creativity #Accessibility #Inclusion

[Karen Janowski @KarenJan]

Good read. Share with education colleagues who want to punish AI use by students. https://t.co/Vh65uTrkRJ

[Karen Janowski @KarenJan]

Want to make your presentations/instruction more accessible? Use this screenshot to learn how to quickly turn on live captions in Google Slides once you're in Present mode. #accessibility #captions #inclusivelearnng

[Ms. Benison- @BenisonMrs]

Dear special education teachers, "correctly spell nonsense words" is not a good IEP goal.
thanks.

[Karen Janowski @KarenJan]

Teaching methods that need to change: calling on students to read aloud. Recently spoke with a MS student who is dyslexic and had a panic attack after being called out to read.Let's create more inclusive and supportive learning environments. #EdChat #Dyslexia #InclusiveEducation

[Karen Janowski @KarenJan]

https://t.co/Wy8qMUXYPk

[Karen Janowski @KarenJan]

Have you reimagined what your education could have looked like? Would love to hear about what it could have been.

[Jordyn Zimmerman @jordynbzim]

For years, much research has confirmed the benefits of including students with disabilities.

(Yet, as long as we continue to separate students out as special ed and general ed, we will carry on with upholding segregated systems of delivery.)

https://t.co/HVIl7EE7ig

[Karen Janowski @KarenJan]

@ItsPrinceSalman @MrBeast She heard where the X was placed and he didn’t change the cases after that. That wasn't scripted, just used good listening strategy

[Karen Janowski @KarenJan]

@jenwagner Jen, you will join my husband who died two years ago on Christmas Day.
You fought the good fight and will spend eternity with Him. 💕💕✝️