Bio:

Tom Rademacher has spent the last two decades devoted to students and education. He’s the author of 50 Strategies for Learning without Screens, It Won’t Be Easy, Raising Ollie, and the forthcoming chapter book series Bucket and Friends. He is currently a professor in the teacher licensure program for Reach University at the Oxford Teachers College. Tom was named Minnesota’s 2014 Teacher of the Year, and before his sixteen years of teaching mostly wrote bad poetry and talked about Kurt Cobain. He lives too close to the Mall of America in Minnesota with his wife, son, and absolute chonk of a dog.

Projects:

In August of 2025, I'm releasing three books for Elementary Students focused on big feelings, identity, and difficult discussions. They are funny and weird and I'm so fiercely proud of them that I might explode. You can read more about them and get a link to read the first one free.