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Skylar L. Primm @skylarprimm.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I have become an inconsistent writer in recent years, but you can find my writing about teaching at skylarp.medium.com, where I usually write for the Greater Madison Writing Project or McGraw Hill’s Art of Teaching. I look forward to continuing to grow my professional network here!

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Skylar L. Primm – Medium

Read writing from Skylar L. Primm on Medium. Cultivating students’ power, nurturing students’ joy, celebrating students’ humanity. 🧡🌱 skylarprimm.com.

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Skylar L. Primm @skylarprimm.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I also coach for @teacherpowered.bsky.social to help spread student-centered, teacher-driven practices, and have served on the boards for the Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education and @humrespro.bsky.social.

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Skylar L. Primm @skylarprimm.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

For 15+ years, I’ve taught in place- and project-based schools in Wisconsin, and I currently serve as lead teacher at Koshkonong Trails School, a small, public charter with an environmental and agricultural focus for middle and high school students.

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Skylar L. Primm @skylarprimm.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

👋🏻 I'm Skylar. Former geologist, current teacher leader. I’m into place-based education, outdoor learning, teacher leadership, and student voice. Also birds, bugs, and lichen. I grew up in New Orleans but have lived in Wisconsin since 2003.

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Skylar L. Primm @skylarprimm.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I’m so glad to have found the #EduSky community after the great Twitter implosion. Bluesky keeps getting better, and I think I'm going to set down roots. So, here's a bit of a reintroduction.

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Skylar L. Primm @skylarprimm.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Welcome back, @pernille.bsky.social! Good to have you blogging again. Young people rarely get practice with deciding when and how to reject adults' ideas because we fail to explicitly offer them no as an option and our system is implicitly(?) authoritarian. Thank you for this reminder. #EduSky

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

If I give the bully my lunch money every day eventually he will die of old age

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Doug Foote @footesteppes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

There were twice as many protests in Feb. 2025 as there were in Feb. 2017. They are smaller, but there are more of them, and they are growing more strategic: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resi... (via Erica Chenoweth)

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

NEW: AOC in Vegas. Major challenge to Dem leadership🔥 “If you’re willing to fight for someone you don’t know, you’re welcome here. But I will say this: Those leaders on either side of aisle willing to put their fellow Americans down so they can get ahead; they may best find a home somewhere else.”

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished

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Skylar L. Primm @skylarprimm.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

And maybe we should all get to know this one better, too. At this point, would being forced to house troops feel all that surprising?

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Skylar L. Primm @skylarprimm.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I'm biased, but this song crafted by one of my #Civics students about one of the neglected amendments in the Bill of Rights is kind of a banger. 🎶🪖 #EduSky music.apple.com/us/album/its...

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itsmythirdamendmentright by IvanInsano on Apple Music

Song · 2025 · Duration 7:40

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Happy The Power Fantasy #7 day!

Cover of the Power Fantasy #7, which is out today, except in the places where it will be inevitably be a week late, due to who knows what, comics, that's what, comics.

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Starr Sackstein, (she/her) @mssackstein.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

What challenges are you currently facing at work or in your career? I write a column for the Kappan called Career Confidential, which is like Dear Abby for educators. How can I help you? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #edusky #education #assessment #instruction #behavior #politics #relationships

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Career Confidential Questions

Please fill in this form to share your current career concerns that you'd like some advice on. Your name and any identifying information will be removed so you can't be identified.

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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

In two weeks!

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Just to be clear here, “the left” does not include the goddam Democrats.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

imo the left really needs to put a lot more effort into organizing veterans, especially now. they aren’t a political monolith, and a lot of them are getting screwed over right now.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I do believe we’re facing a generational problem. We have Dems who’ve been in office so long that they think their job is just to get elected in the next cycle and not to govern and wield power. They worry too much about what Rs might weaponize and as a result they refuse to fight.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I kinda think a Dem voting for *anything* on the GOP agenda—a Trump nominee, Al Green censure, anything—functions basically as an endorsement of the ongoing destruction of government. Republicans are the people who can stop him, and they're just fully on board with a coup. You can't join their side!

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ceej @ceej.online · 12/03/2025

Once these Let Billions Suffer voters see how gruesome letting billions suffer gets they will surely come crawling back to the Let Millions Suffer party and we’ll finally be able to win elections without catering to those troublesome Nobody Should Suffer radicals

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 30/01/2025

Do you care about access? 🫂 Please try updating your settings to prompt alt text descriptions with media! 🙏🏽 Under, Accessibility, you can select "Require alt text before posting" to remind you! 👀 That way, if you forget, then you are unable to post until you provide a description of your media! ✨️

Image Description: Against a dark background, text states:
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Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

If they can bring down the US Department of Education, they will be emboldened to bring down your state department of education, your local school board. The target is public education itself, folks.

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Skylar L. Primm @skylarprimm.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Trump must *really* hate his granddaughter Kai.

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Skylar L. Primm @skylarprimm.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

And after you're done registering for summer conferences, think about spending a fall weekend with @teacherpowered.bsky.social in Michigan! Teach-Toberfest will be here before you know it, and you'll want to be among student-centered friends. 🍂 #EduSky www.teacherpowered.org/conference-2...

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Teacher-Powered Schools National Conference - Teacher-Powered Schools

At the Teacher-Powered Schools National Conference, hundreds of the country’s most inspiring and innovative educators and supporters convene to share and learn from one another. Request for proposals ...

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Skylar L. Primm @skylarprimm.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The Conference to Restore Humanity from @humrespro.bsky.social is always a highlight of my summer. It helps expand my thinking and rebuild connections with the humanity underpinning all of our work in schools. If you're not registered yet, get on it! #EduSky

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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Are you a PBIS skeptic? (Or a PBIS hater seeking affirmation?) Join me for my next pay-what-you-can workshop! www.tickettailor.com/events/uncon...

promo graphic for a pay-what-you-can workshop with Alex: why points, prizes, and TigerBux don't work (and what to do instead). There's a graphic of money and prize tickets.

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Skylar L. Primm @skylarprimm.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction, in all its wisdom, decided that scheduling statewide ACT testing the Tuesday after starting daylight savings time was the best option. 🙄

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Melissa @mdmorton424.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

My grandmother was born in Birmingham, AL in 1929. She awoke at 8years old at a cousin's house to see her uncle leaving the house in a full KKK uniform. She spoke out, she raised her kids differently. We can do this. We must do this.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 26/02/2025

A # of problems would have been greatly reduced by white men simply liking themselves instead of measuring their self-worth by the oppression of others. The ideology of white supremacy & patriarchy is a collective self-esteem failure that prevented many people from building a self-worth on merit.

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Governor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 07/03/2025

From historic investments in our schools to making sure kids are fed and have clean, safe drinking water to helping parents get a leg up to get ahead, my budget is the most pro-kid budget in our state's history. Because what's best for our kids is what's best for our state.

Gov. Evers sits at a lunch table talking to kids.

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Skylar L. Primm @skylarprimm.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I had an appointment Tuesday morning and arrived at school halfway through the day. A group of my high school boys was super excited and proud about telling me about all the things they’d accomplished while I was gone. It was so sweet. 🥰

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Governor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 07/03/2025

BREAKING: we’re suing President Trump and the Trump Administration for recklessly firing tens of thousands of federal workers, including thousands of our veterans. It's wrong, illegal, and bad for our state and our country—that’s why we’re headed to court to try and stop them.

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Skylar L. Primm @skylarprimm.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

First, they came for the standardized tests... and I said nothing because even a stopped atomic clock leaking radiation everywhere is right twice a day. 🤷‍♂️ #EduSky www.the74million.org/article/afte...

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After Declaring NAEP Off-Limits, Education Department Cancels Upcoming Test

One prominent researcher said the flip-flop offers ‘the first direct evidence that executive actions have weakened NAEP.’

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Skylar L. Primm @skylarprimm.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I’ve been using WeCroak (wecroak.com) to help keep me grounded in the present moment since it launched in 2017. Sometimes, the quotes it sends me are so timely as to feel a bit eerie. (h/t to the great @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social for writing this one in the first place)

White text against a very dark blue background, reading: The world we are part of now is difficult to accept, unimaginably difficult. I don't know if I accept everything even now. I don't know how l can. But acceptance moves past denial, and maybe there's defiance in that, too. Jeff Vandermeer

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Skylar L. Primm @skylarprimm.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Thanks, friend. I'm eternally grateful that Bluesky and the old Twitter educator network has turned back up in this dark time. 🧡

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Teacher-Powered Schools @teacherpowered.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Are you a teacher that is ready to LEAD without LEAVING? Ready to think differently about your role in school leadership? Help build the #teacherpowered movement by presenting at Teach-Tober: Harvesting Shared Power for School Transformation Call for proposals open NOW at bit.ly/4hliM07 #edchat

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Request for Breakout Session Proposals - Teacher-Powered Schools

What does your team do that every teacher-powered school ought to know about? Let us know. We are looking for interactive, engaging, joyful session proposals from current teacher-powered practitioners...

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Skylar L. Primm @skylarprimm.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

PS Also, I'm teaching the first session of a high school Civics seminar today. Send help.

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Skylar L. Primm @skylarprimm.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The psychic weight of trying to hold a space of safety and relative normalcy for my students while democracy burns down around me is turning out to be a real drag on my mental health. 🫠 #EduSky

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

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Teacher-Powered Schools @teacherpowered.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Mark your calendar for an amazing national conference this fall! #teacherpowered #studentcentered …Coming to MI!

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Dr. Duane @drduane.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Now more than ever we need to implore educators (and everyone) to use assets frames. Asset frames = start with strengths *alongside* challenges. Deficit frames = only name deficiencies.

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Jose Vilson, PhD @thejosevilson.com · 29/01/2025

Two parts: 1) Achievement isn't the same as learning, but if it was ... 2) This is a reminder that America is not doing everything possible to raise achievement. A robust and healthier society would create conditions for a better education. But deficit-based narratives win the day.

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