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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 ...more

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	It Won't Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching 4.20 avg rating — 1,288 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Raising Ollie: How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know 3.92 avg rating — 219 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Splitting Wood 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Knocking At Your Door 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	50 Strategies for Learning without Screens it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bucket and Friends Save Part of the World With a Wall by Tom Rademacher, Esther Hernando (illustrator) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bucket and Friends Save (Part of) the World with a Wall by Tom Rademacher, Esther Hernando (illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bucket and Friends Save (Part of) the World with a Name by Tom Rademacher, Esther Hernando (illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of CAKE: Celebrating Stories and Faces of Hope Network liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Raising Ollie: How My Nonbinary Art-nerd Kid Changed Nearly Everything I Know - Library Edition by Tom Rademacher, Roger Wayne (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

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“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

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“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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