Four Winds Learning Collective

09/15/2026

NEW EPISODE!

A student gets sent to the office, comes back twenty minutes later with a bag of chips, and the same behavior shows up again the next day. Most educators have lived that exact scene, and the frustration usually has nothing to do with the snack.

This week we talk about what consequence actually means, what's really happening behind those closed admin doors, and why behavior is almost always communication before it's a discipline problem.

https://fourwindslearningcollective.org/s2-e4-what-school-consequences-are-actually-for/

06/27/2026

We are super proud to announce that we've received our approval as a 501(c)(3) and are now accepting tax-deductible donations through Zeffy.com

Four Winds Learning Collective is a nonprofit built on a simple conviction: the education system fails too many kids, not because something is wrong with…

06/15/2026

New podcast dropped!

The honest version of the AI-in-education conversation isn't about whether it replaces teachers , it's about which parts of teaching were never really teaching to begin with. We spent a Friday night on this one: what AI can actually do for educators, what it genuinely can't, and what it means when a kid's ability to look someone in the eye has become a skill that schools might need to teach explicitly. Messy, not resolved, but possibly more honest than most of the AI takes you'll hear.

There’s a version of this conversation that turns into the usual hand-wringing about screens and attention spans. This isn’t that.

05/04/2026

What if we stopped trying to "fix" dyslexic students and started redesigning the systems that fail them?

In our latest mini-episode, Stuart dives into The Dyslexic Advantage and the MIND framework. It’s a conversation about moving past the deficit model and toward a classroom that actually leverages how these students process the world.

https://fourwindslearningcollective.org/s2-m3-the-dyslexic-mind/

04/06/2026

New episode is out! https://fourwindslearningcollective.org

It starts with a question: have you ever walked into a school and thought, "I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, and someone is about to figure that out"?

In this episode, we're joined by Ryan, our audio engineer, longtime friend, and occasional jackass, to dig into why imposter phenomena is built into how schools work and what it looks like to build a community where people can say "I don't know."

03/17/2026

Our second mini-episode is now live: The Shield is Cracking
https://fourwindslearningcollective.org/s2-m2-the-shield-is-cracking/

03/16/2026

After four months of not recording due to the challenging task of coordinating schedules across four adults, we made the decision to introduce “mini episodes” between our full recordings. We proudly released our first mini episode last week, titled “The World Is On Fire.”

https://fourwindslearningcollective.org/s2-mini-episode-m-1-the-world-is-on-fire/

11/24/2025

We’re back! Season 2 of the Four Winds Learning Collective podcast is now live.

New season. Same mission: belonging, mastery, independence, generosity.

https://fourwindslearningcollective.org/s2-e1-mental-health-community-schools-and-the-mess-were-all-living-in/

11/21/2025

Season 2 of our podcast drops on Monday! In anticipation, we've redesigned our website to put the podcast front and center. We've also added a contact form, which (crazily) we didn't have before.

05/11/2025

Guess what? We've got our first guest!

For episode 5 "Qualified to Care?: Rethinking What Make Teachers Effective," we're joined by our friend and colleague, Maya, to explore what truly makes someone a “highly qualified teacher.”

https://fourwindslearningcollective.org/our-podcast.html