Alum Is Minnesota Teacher of the Year

Tom Rademacher (BA 2004; CEHD M.Ed. 2007) was named Minnesota Teacher of the Year on May 4, 2014. Rademacher teaches high school English at the Fine Arts Interdisciplinary Resources (FAIR) School in downtown Minneapolis. The student who nominated him wrote: "[H]e teaches us that our thoughts matter, and that we are capable of anything we want to do with our lives." Rademacher wins a $6,000 prize and serves as a teacher ambassador in the state for the next year. In an interview with the Star Tribune, Rademacher said, "[T]he ideas behind the literature we read help kids figure out what you are going to do in the world and how to address things that are right and wrong."