Tom Rademacher

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Tom Rademacher


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I started teaching in 2006 at an Arts and Racial Integration magnet school near Minneapolis, MN as an 8th grade Language Arts teacher. Having grown up in Wisconsin, primarily in a suburb of Milwaukee, I entered the classroom largely ignorant of the ways that Race and Culture can impact every student's educational journey.

Thankfully, I had students who insisted I learn what it meant to be a white guy at the front of the room, do my best to empathize with the kids in front of me, and never stop working to be better.

Over the years of my career, I've taught middle and high school, coached middle and elementary school teachers, and been a member of many different leadership groups within my schools and districts.

In 2014, I was named Minn
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“Teaching is like trying to shove a couch that is too wide through a door. No amount of pushing harder is going to help until you figure out that you need to flip the damn thing on its side.”
Tom Rademacher, It Won't Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching

“Antiracist teaching is a process. It is a process without end, without a graduation and a certification as officially antiracist, which is all the better reason to work with urgency.”
Tom Rademacher, It Won't Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching

“Teaching requires that you work at being a person and work at understanding people and the world, and work at feelings and connecting and respect in ways and to a magnitude that is not often asked of adults who aren't bartenders.”
Tom Rademacher, It Won't Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching



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