Primer

Restoring the timeless foundations of American Education.

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Little textbooks called ‘primers’ shaped the first 200 years of American Education. Primer will shape the next 200.

This is our labor of love for the kids of America. A vision for the future of Education, featuring MarQuis – a real Primer student:

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A real-time, transparent view into your child's academic progress.

Available now for every Primer family.

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@delk 🫡

[Ryan Delk @delk]

The Primer Fellowship is back.

If you've dreamed of launching your own school in FL, AL, TX or AZ — we built this for you.

We're on a quest to ensure this is the last generation left behind by the US K-12 system, and we need your help.

Let's launch some schools!

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@packyM @delk Time to build some schools.

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

To fix energy, build nuclear reactors & batteries.

To fix air travel, build fast planes.

To fix housing, build houses.

And to fix K-12 education, build schools.

That's what @delk is doing at @Primer.

[Ben Lang @benln]

Here's a list of 28 Series A startups on a breakout trajectory.

All with at least $5M+ in run-rate revenue and 100% year-over-year growth. All are hiring:

1) @Primer - microschools (US remote/Bay Area)
2) @trybasis - AI accounting assistant (NYC)
3) @withgraphite - code review automation (NYC)
4) @Agentiohq - creator advertising (US remote)
5) @normativeai - AI compliance (Bay Area)
6) @n8n_io - API workflow automation (US/EU remote)
7) @Pagos_AI - payment intelligence (US/EU remote)
8) @nagish_inc - AI phone call captioning (NYC/Tel Aviv)
9) @JoinVantage - cloud cost management (NYC/US)
10) @payabli - payment infrastructure (Miami)
11) @askpeerlogic - dental AI software (SLC/US remote)
12) @livekit - open-source streaming (SF/ remote)
13) @haus - marketing measurement (SF/US remote)
14) @MavenAGI - gen AI support (SF/US remote)
15) @ConductorOneInc - identity governance (SF/London)
16) @incident_io - incident management automation (NYC/Austin/LA/DC)
17) @Nominal_io - industrial data stack (US remote)
18) @Tango_HQ - workflow documentation creator (Stockholm/London/Madrid/NYC)
19) @cloudsmith - software artifact management (UK remote/US remote/India remote)
20) @evelegalai - legal case management (SF/US remote)
21) @Wander - luxury vacation rentals (remote)
22) @joinLeland - professional coaching marketplace (Lehi UT/US remote)
23) @JoinMultiverse - tech apprenticeships (London/UK remote)
24) @astra_finance - real-time payment API (NYC/US remote)
25) @JuniperPlatform - therapy insurance billing (NYC/Bay Area/Remote)
26) @nue_io - revenue lifecycle management (Bay Area/Toronto/North America remote)
27) @CruxClimate - tax credit management (US remote/Canada remote)
28) @loft_sh - virtual Kubernetes clusters (EU remote/North America remote)

Credit to @thogge for putting together this incredible list over at https://t.co/g5ZSqhmuS1

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@moderndad @sierracatalina Yet!

[Ryan Delk @delk]

Never gets old.

[tyler hogge @thogge]

“A team to rebuilt the k-12 education system.”

Talk about a call to adventure.

I am so excited for what @primer is building.

[Robert Westbury @rbrrw]

❤️

[Bobby Fijan @bobbyfijan]

This is so badass

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When a third-grader is obsessed with the NFL draft, what do you do?

90% of teachers would suggest research, trifold boards, a report, and a presentation about what she learned.

10% of teachers would email the Arizona Cardinals and say, “We have a third grader who’s worked on an analysis of the upcoming draft. Can she present it to your team and intern for a day on your stats team?”

Those 10% are difficult to find.

But when you empower them to launch their own school, they can change the world.

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Hard at work.

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A simple distillation of what Primer’s all about: turning teachers into entrepreneurs.

It turns out that great teachers make great entrepreneurs, and we’re here to make that happen.

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Our students use technology to individualize their learning — moving at their own pace.

But they also complete the NWEA Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) test 3x / year.

This gives us nationally normed data to cross-check with our internal data, and parents + students get full transparency into all the results.

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How do we feel about testing?

We never “teach to the test” — prioritizing test scores over real learning is a losing strategy.

But we also believe in accountability – academic progress matters.

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Primer is a place where kids work on projects they’re *actually* interested in.

Which means they find out what they’re actually interested in.

It’s what we wish we had the courage and resources to do as adults — and they’re starting now.

They’re going to be way ahead of us when they grow up.

[Ryan Delk @delk]

Caught up with a first-year Primer Leader this morning. A favorite, among many gems:

"I've never seen a school where I tell my kids to pack up and they ask if they can stay longer."

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People love to say that Primer is innovative, but in a lot of ways we’re not.

A lot of our model is simply how children learned for thousands of years.

Individualized instruction and a tight-knit community. It works.