Ms Jenian

High School English/Humanities teacher. With cats.

[Ms Jenian @katejenian]

@CriminologyUK My co-workers are not respecting my workspace. May have to relocate to the garage!

[Tim Minchin @timminchin]

*Homeschooling kids during global pandemic*
Son: I don’t know why we have to do maths homework. It’s not useful in real life.
Me: Yeah. It doesn’t matter at all that half of Australia seems to have skipped maths the day they taught exponentiality.

[Ms Jenian @katejenian]

@BiancaH80 *Parents* are loving my "online learning" instruction emails, but so far have not had a response from students 😆

[AI-Media @accessinclusion]

#Access is still a huge issue for the disability community! It's time to stand up for equality and access for all! #Inclusion #ASL #Signlanguage https://t.co/9nTw4wGMTQ

[Ms Jenian @katejenian]

In the spirit of #betterlatethannever I have taken down last year's remaining learning walls, and, well, put up the labels for my new ones (baby steps!). Had a bit of a stop-it-and-tidy-up and re-labelled my recycling bins. #classroom

[Ms Jenian @katejenian]

This persistent rain is super-annoying as a wheelchair user, especially as I have no covered access to my classroom, but it's brilliant when improvising a Yr7 Geo lesson on water, weather and climate!

[Ms Jenian @katejenian]

I'm enjoying my new year, new outlook, new hair, new shoes, new classes, new subjects (Year 8 Humanities to complete my set!) and new colleagues. Happy 2019-so-far to me.

Related: coming off #Tramadol is the best move I've ever made.

[Ms Jenian @katejenian]

@MsFridayology Gorgeous. Great photo!

[Ms Jenian @katejenian]

Today I bonded with my Year 12 students through my driving to NSW and back (almost 3000km) at Christmas, using hand controls, and my knowledge of the phonetic alphabet #teaching #learning

[Kent C. Dodds 🐨 @kentcdodds]

You 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 it's 𝒸𝓊𝓉ℯ to 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 your tweets and usernames 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖜𝖆𝖞. But have you 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙 to what it 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 with assistive technologies like 𝓥𝓸𝓲𝓬𝓮𝓞𝓿𝓮𝓻?

[Joe Hardy 🇺🇦 🇪🇺♿️🐟 #RightToLove 💙 @BlokeOnWheels]

#ThingsDisabledPeopleKnow Just because a person may know of a disabled person does not mean they know what's best for everyone with a disability.

[Ms Jenian @katejenian]

@sarahjanet The Australian anthem was changed some years ago from "Australia's sons let us rejoice" to "Australians all". Again, kids today have no idea it was any different (or that there's a 2nd verse!!).

[IndigenousX LTD @IndigenousXLtd]

Today is the day we start to #ChangeTheNation

We deserve to live in a country that respects the rights and dignity of Indigenous peoples, and if our nation’s leaders won’t listen then we will work together to create a better nation ourselves.

Australia has unfinished business.

[Ms Jenian @katejenian]

A new colleague, who has come from my previous school, knew all about Dexter, my beloved service dog (now over the Rainbow Bridge). Apparently he is still remembered by previous students, who tried to get into my classes so they could be with him. Dexter was the best.

[Ms Jenian @katejenian]

The best advice I got from the OT today was: use your SmartDrive whenever the hell you want, and stuff the funding conditions (ie not supposed to use it for work purposes, just to "access the community").

[Ms Jenian @katejenian]

Finding a school for my teaching prac was hard - the uni had no idea, state govt had no idea, there was no central database I could find, so I had to ask my local wheelie friends where they went to high school. My choice of schools to work in is limited by lack of access.

[Ms Jenian @katejenian]

I also met with the school's rehab officer with the OT, and we got onto discussing just how very hard it is for PWD to gain employment, and how easy it is for employers to overlook/discriminate against us. Even as I was studying to become a teacher, I didn't expect to get a job.