The Teacher's Key

05/05/2026

Thank you, Dana, for sharing this with us!

Remember when the TV station went off after the 10 PM news cast? The day ended, and people actually rested.

We've lost something sacred.

As Christian women serving our families, our churches, and our communities, we've been conditioned to push through exhaustion and consider it a badge of honor in service to the Lord.

But here's what Scripture teaches us: God designed sleep. It’s vain to stay up late and rise early.

When we deny our bodies the sleep they desperately need, we're ignoring the temple we've been entrusted to steward. Foggy thinking, mood struggles, weakened immunity, even our ability to serve those we love most... it all hinges on something so important.

What if the most spiritual thing you could do right now is lie down in peace and actually rest?

I'm breaking down the recent session I taught on the healing power of sleep into three parts. Listen to part 1 now.

The Renewing Your Health program airs on Monday as part of the Eleven2One show on Faith Music Radio.

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05/05/2026

I had a great time at the Daycation last week. Someone talked to me about phonics and the subject of syllabication came up. Tune in to The Teachers Key at Faith Music Radio tomorrow on Eleven2one at 12:30. This will be just a brief explanation of what I was describing. The show will be added to the podcast sometime tomorrow.

01/05/2026

Happy New Year!! I began this series before the holidays talking about Executive Functioning Skills. Tune in Tuesday during Eleven2one on Faith Music Radio at 12:30 for the next episode about time management and task inhibition.

Sometimes as teachers we need to explicitly teach executive functioning skills or even set up a plan that helps students follow through on what these skills look like while in action.

Do we set our classrooms and management systems in such a manner that we model planning while teaching students strategies for prioritizing important information. Helping our students to plan and prioritize will set them up for success.

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas!

11/11/2025

I have been talking about Executive Functioning skills, how it affects our students when they aren't fully developed, and how we can help them. Tuen in today on Faith Music Radio during the Eleven2one show at 12:30 to hear about Planning and Prioritizing. I am so thankful to Sarah Hudon that organized this information to help teachers know our students and how we can help them.

1 Corinthians 14:40 "Let all things be done decently and in order." So many of our students could find more success in the classroom if they only had the skill of organization! We can be the teacher that can help them organize and hold them accountable while they are in our classrooms. Thank you to....

10/14/2025

This is the next episode about Executive Functioning Skills. Also, included is a little personal experience with Chelle when she was struggling with learning at a very young age. We are always learning about ways to help improve our learning environment. Our God is a great God that supplies all our needs.

Join in tomorrow on Faith Music Radio during the Eleven2one show at 12:30 for the third episode that dips a little into the science of executive Functioning Skills. A big thank you to Sarah Hudon for allowing me to use her reports and gathered information on executive functioning skills.

Executive functioning skills can interfere with the learning process and is critic for students to receive help developing skills. Thank you to Sarah Hudon for organizing and providing this information helping teachers and parents gain knowledge about executive functioning skills.

09/15/2025

Executive functions help us to plan, organized and regulate our learning and behavior. God gave us the first executive functioning skills to help us after salvation. We find that in the Fruit of the Spirit. He changes our thoughts to love, joy, and peace. He also changes our behaviors to longsuffering, goodness, kindness, faithfulness and temperance.

Join me as we discover from Sarah Hudon how some students need more time and effort to develop executive functioning skills. Click the link below to hear last week's introduction and listen to Faith Music Radio at 12:30 during the Eleven2one show on Tuesdays for future broadcasts.

https://TheTeacherskey.podbean.com/e/executive-functions-and-the-fruit-of-the-spirit/

08/25/2025

Students do not always avoid a task simply because they do not want to do the work. Sometimes they can be embarrassed by the fact that they do not understand the task or simply do not have the skills to perform the task. Teaching our students to walk in truth includes them understanding that they can do hard things and they can work through their weaknesses instead of running from them.

Students do not always avoid a task simply because they do not want to do the work. Sometimes they can be embarrassed by the fact that they do not understand the task or simply do not have the skills to perform the task. Teaching our students to walk in truth includes them understanding that they ca...

08/18/2025

Tune in Tuesday at 12:30 on Faith Music Radio during the Eleven2one show to hear about why students might disobey to avoid a task and how we can help them to walk in truth.

One reason for students to misbehave is to seek attention. Mrs. Evans used to say, “Why can’t we just give people what they need?” We just need to decide that some students just need more attention. Go ahead and give it to them. Don’t make them seek it. Then teach them how to appropriately s...

08/11/2025

Why do some students seek attention more than others? Why can't they just stop when asked? How can I help them walk in truth? Tomorrow on Faith Music Radio at 12:30 I will be continuing the lesson on Behavior Awareness. Don't miss Eleven2one! It is packed full with praise, wisdom, and encouragement.

We can recognize obvious reasons students disobey, like defiance, rebellion, and just plain ole disobedience or foolishness. But there are some reasons some children actually have a problem with self-regulating. This is where we can help students walk in truth by acknowledging the problem and using....