Ellen Gessert

High School Art Teacher.
TEDxYouthAnnArbor advisor.
MSU MA Educational Tech graduate.

[MLive @MLive]

Emma Riddle, an 18-year-old freshman at Michigan State University, survived the mass shooting at Oxford High School. On Monday night, she texted with her roommate, father and a friend while hiding in her dorm room during the mass shooting on MSU's campus. https://t.co/3Pu6E7coYT

[Detroit Free Press @freep]

Oxford student relives horror at MSU: 'Mom — get me out of here' https://t.co/iNeuJgODdN

[Governor Gretchen Whitmer @GovWhitmer]

Tonight, Spartans will cry and hold each other a little closer. We will mourn the loss of beautiful souls and pray for those fighting for their lives in the hospital.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

So maybe less paper straws and more abolishing billionaires

[Sydney Jensen @sydneycjensen]

Nebraska just fired their head football coach with a 15mil buyout. Love to see a guy make more than my lifetime earnings as a teacher by getting fired after turning in record-settingly bad job performance. So fun.

Anyway, if you want to solve the teacher shortage…pay them more.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Atlanta is the number one city for Gen Z, according to a new study. Read more about the analysis and what criteria was considered for these cities.
https://t.co/oYXhRY8IYQ

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

Every day in America since 2016:

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Literally defunding teachers to give the police over $11 billion a year

[Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams]

My name is Stacey Abrams and I intend to be the next governor of the great state of Georgia.

[Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien]

Except when that guy in Buffalo kills ten Black people. Then we’ll say nothing.

[Bess Kalb @bessbell]

Let this be remembered as the night the Met Gala saluted the Gilded Age, a time of outrageous wealth disparity coated in the patina of luxury, while the Supreme Court sentenced poor women seeking reproductive freedom to death.

[Manu Raju @mkraju]

“Can you provide a definition for the word, woman?” Blackburn asks. Jackson: “Can I provide a definition? No, I can’t.”

Blackburn: “You can’t?”

Jackson: “Not in this context - I’m not a biologist. … In my work as a judge what I do is I address disputes.”

[Eugene Scott @Eugene_Scott]

How Ketanji Brown Jackson’s path to the Supreme Court differs from the current justices https://t.co/07TWPsciBd

[Emily Ramshaw @eramshaw]

This picture, my God. https://t.co/8m2EDk8cBb

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

If you're not livid, you're not listening.

[TED Talks @TEDTalks]

"Once you know what you want, understand why you want it. Make sure you want it because there's something not that you should do but something you must do."

Watch Stacey Abrams' full TED Talk here: https://t.co/1HQtylWF7a

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

A child shot nine people at an Oxford, Michigan, high school today - killing three - and pundits will say the solution is MORE GUNS.

It’s a failed experiment: There are 400M guns in the hands of civilians here. If more guns made us safer, we’d be the safest nation in the world.

[Chasten Glezman Buttigieg @Chasten]

It must be absolutely exhausting for our nation’s students to watch some adults care more about teachers bringing history books to school than a gunman brining a weapon.

[Jay Wamsted @JayWamsted]

If parents want to be in charge of what children are learning they can homeschool.

The rest of us are living in a society where we have to balance competing interests.

It’s what makes public schools great.