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Thomas Rademacher

Thomas Rademacher

Nex, the Nex in my home, the Nex in Every Classroom, Deserves Life.

There’s a lot we don’t know about Nex, the non-binary child who was killed in an Oklahoma school on February 8th. We know Nex was beaten in…

3 min readFeb 20, 2024

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Nex, the Nex in my home, the Nex in Every Classroom, Deserves Life.

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Thomas Rademacher

Musk & Bezos & Other Geniuses That Aren’t Smart.

9 min readJan 2, 2024

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Musk & Bezos & Other Geniuses That Aren’t Smart.

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My Favorite Things (and not things) this Year

Before I share my favorite things this year, I want to share a piece of one of my favorite things ever, which is John Hodgman’s speech at a…

7 min readDec 27, 2023

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My Favorite Things (and not things) this Year

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Thomas Rademacher

Teacher on the Sidewalk

I dropped my kid off late today and saw an upset student come out of the school followed by a teacher trying to talk to him. By the time I…

2 min readDec 6, 2023

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This Year, Give Teachers What They Really Need: A Freaking Break.

School years are starting around the country. How do I know? I’ve been witnessing the two defining seasonal phenomena:

4 min readAug 18, 2023

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This Year, Give Teachers What They Really Need: A Freaking Break.

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Bad Math: How Many Rhymes is That? Quantifying the claims of rapper’s with “more rhymes than __”

Claim: I’ve got more rhymes than the Bible has Psalms

5 min readJun 5, 2023

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Bad Math: How Many Rhymes is That? Quantifying the claims of rapper’s with “more rhymes than __”

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Thomas Rademacher

There is Room to be Hopeful in the Space Between Teachers and Students.

Can I ask you to do something today? Can you ask three people who their favorite teacher was? Can you ask them what that teacher did for…

4 min readApr 30, 2023

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There is Room to be Hopeful in the Space Between Teachers and Students.

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Thomas Rademacher

What I Learned Looking for my First Post-Teaching Job.

In my first few years of teaching I kept a word document of other jobs I could do. In those years of profound stress and struggle, I needed…

5 min readNov 17, 2022

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What I Learned Looking for my First Post-Teaching Job.

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Leaving Teaching Was Hard, but Not as Hard as Staying.

I said goodbye to my students forever, again. I’ve been doing so four or five times a week for the last few months as my decision to stop…

4 min readOct 30, 2022

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Leaving Teaching Was Hard, but Not as Hard as Staying.

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To My Trump-Flag-Flying Neighbor Who Thinks Teachers are the Enemy: You’re Being Lied to. Again.

I drive my kid to school every morning. We pass a house that has, for years, flown various political flags. The red MAGA standard gave way…

4 min readMay 5, 2022

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To My Trump-Flag-Flying Neighbor Who Thinks Teachers are the Enemy: You’re Being Lied to. Again.

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Thomas Rademacher

Thomas Rademacher

Author of ‘It Won’t Be Easy.’ and ‘Raising Ollie’ 2014 Minnesota Teacher of the Year. @mrtomrad on everything. www.mrtomrad.com

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