Kingdom Educators with Jesica Glover

If you’ve ever wondered how God is working in public schools, this week’s episode of Kingdom Educators will fill you with hope! Kori Pennypacker, CEO of Bible2School, shares how her organization is equipping parents and community leaders to bring devotional Bible electives into public schools—during school hours, legally and impactfully!​ Kori has a deep heart for teachers who see their work as a...

Have you ever dreamt of starting your own school? In this inspiring episode of Kingdom Educators, Dalena Wallace shares her journey as a homeschool mom and the founder of AIM Educational Collaborative, where she empowers homeschool parents and Christian educators to launch innovative learning environments like micro-schools, hybrid schools, and virtual schools. She believes God is calling educator...

Feeling too stressed to teach? When student behavior feels overwhelming and nothing seems to be working, it’s easy to feel discouraged. But sometimes, the biggest shift isn’t in your classroom—it’s in how you see it. In this episode Jesica Glover speaks with Trish Zenczak, a high school teacher and mentor, about supporting trauma-impacted students with a kingdom perspective. Drawing from her own e...

William Ponder never set out to write a book, but when God called he said, "Yes!" In this week's podcast we learn about a high school (and beyond!) resource that will facilitate incredible conversations with your students about their potential and their futures. "Ponder the Possibilities" is an easy read, kosher for public high schools with 6 keys that invite students to dream of what's possible i...

We're launching into a podcast series of "Empowering Partners" and Joel Penton , founder and director of LifeWise, joins us this week as our first guest who shares how bible education can change students' lives!   LifeWise empowers local community members who are interested in sharing the gospel with public school students by providing a "plug and play" system for organizing and setting up a  prog...

This episode is a LIVE recording from the  Hagerstown, MD Teacher LIFT Dinner hosted by Christian Educators on 2/2/25 where Jesica Glover invites listeners to consider 3 truths that help us follow and 2 lies that can hinder as the Good Shepherd invites us to partner with Him. Her message finds it's home in John 10:1-5 where we as the sheep know our Good Shepherd's voice, He calls us by name, and H...

As we wrap up our series on healthy boundaries, Jesus summarizes the keys brought up by several of our special guests and then invites us into recognizing our heart's posture in allowing Jesus to have our complete devotion through a NEW BOUNDARY. She dives into, what she coins, "My YES to Jesus" that allows us to exchange our tendency to solve our own problems, be our own "source," etc... for allo...

We're back this week with Elizabeth Schmus to round out our conversation of intentionally building rest into the margins of our week as Kingdom Educators. Elizabeth is a big fan and wealth of knowledge when it comes to finding space to give ourselves grace in ALL we do in and outside of school. In this episode, we discuss creating simple systems that alleviate stress-- offloading tasks to others,...

We can all struggle at times with feeling the tug to work too much... even to the point of allowing ourselves to rest only as a reward for "finishing," but we're reminded that's not a habit God designed us to have. One of the spiritual Mamas of the Christian Educators movement, Elizabeth Schmus, shares with us her own journey of finding rest in "work" by instilling the practice of Sabbath and hold...

It doesn't broach public conversation often, but we as Christian educators know there are some fine lines for following the law, while also living within our faith convictions in our classrooms. During this episode high school teacher Rhapsody Jordan-Parisi dives into how she has thought through her clear "yes" and "no" when it comes to dealing with gender confusion. Her #1 goals are to honor God...

God provides and blesses us when we tune in to His direction for our BEST YES[es] and gives us wisdom for what to say no to. We're learning that boundaries actually protect us and our families... so let's tune in this New Year to find healthy balance in our lives.   Morgan Preston wishes would have heeded the many warnings to put up boundaries in her teaching position. So when her son voiced the h...

This week on the Kingdom Educators Podcast Olivia Williamson, director of Claim Your Campus shares with us how her ministry is raising up a million students nationwide to be praying for our campuses! She encourages teachers who are praying, or thinking of prayer walking with some testimonies that will encourage your heart. Tune in to learn more about this vital ministry and how it partners with ma...

One of the best ways we can build healthy boundaries is by setting ourselves up for success with a regular time with Jesus and dive into the Word of God. In Part 2 of Healthy Boundaries Jill Miller from Teacher Be Still reviews the power of learning to hear God's voice through connecting with His Word-- learning to discern His voice and follow His leading. She then leads us into a series of practi...

As we begin this new podcasting unit of healthy boundaries for Kingdom Educators, I've invited Jill Miller from Teacher Be Still to join us as she has a wealth of experience on the topic as an educator, blended family mama, and business woman. She also offers professional development on this topic (see below for her contact info). During Part 1 Jill dives into the foundation of all of our boundari...

Amber Auger from Beacon of Light joins us this week to discuss the incredible Check the Facts Curriculum they've created, released, and use as an educational tool in public, private, and homeschools across the U.S. Beacon of Light offers a totally unique, comprehensive sexual health curriculum that is free from the over-sexualized content and unbalanced messaging typically found in standard school...

In lieu of Thanksgiving Week, and the reminder that we've got so much to be thankful for in the gift of one another-- we want to invite you to our newest Kingdom Educator COMMUNITY... we're launching the Connected KE+ Membership and you don't want to miss out!! For a limited time we'll be offering a Black Friday unbeatable discount for this Transformative Community... with both monthly and annual...

To wrap up our self-care podcast series this week Jesica Glover invites us into the center of one of her Christian teacher community conversations-- and this week it happens to be with 2nd Grade teacher Bekah Hutchinson from SW Washington. Bekah invites us into her own experience of truth-telling which really hit home this summer when she attended a Christian Educators Leadership retreat where Jam...

Get Ready to be encouraged... and welcomed into an AWAKE Experience coming to your area SOON! Heather Kohnen, Christian Educators Awake Experience Coordinator, joins us this week to continue our unit of Teacher Heartcare by encouraging us to connect with the faith community, dig into our true identity--- identifying lies and replacing with the truth, and holding onto the realities of we do have fa...

Melinda Wilson with the Immanuel Approach Inner Healing Ministries joins us, again, for Part 2 addressing our Teacher Hearts in an inner-healing activation. We begin with gratitude and appreciation and then we invite Jesus to show us where he is. This is not guided imagery, but rather an invitation to commune with Jesus. Dr. Karl Lehman, who created the Immanuel Approach, has combined brain scienc...

Melinda Wilson with the Immanuel Approach Inner Healing Ministries joins us for a 2-Part Series addressing our Teacher Hearts. Often we don't take time to listen to our hearts, and while serving our students is a daily passion, we must stop to care for our own hearts so we can be good stewards of those under our care. This is how we get unstuck in our classrooms   Melinda challenges us to use some...

Jessica Klika returns to give us some more practicals for grounding, regulation, remaining in the present, and focusing on slowing down as educators. She talks a bit about identifying our needs with acronym H.A.L.T.S.-- where we ask ourselves am I Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired, or Stressed, right now? Identifying what we need and then seeking to meet those needs is our goal our healthy teachers.  ...

In the middle of our "Teacher Self-Talk" podcast unit former middle school teacher gone counselor, Jessica Klicka, shares some tips and tricks for keeping ourselves well inside and out. As we all know teachers can be notorious for putting off their own needs for those of others, but is this really the right thing to do in the long run? Ignoring the signs our bodies are sending us can lead to some...

Sometimes we have "words" we're holding onto that we haven't seen come to pass yet. What we do with those words matters... it matters how we steward these prophetic words-- whether they're straight from scripture or prayed or prophesied over us. It's our job to hold onto them, pray them, and declare them over ourselves on the darkest days to stir up faith and expectation because "God is not a man...

Declaring the truth over ourselves, our families, and our students is an act of believing the Word of God! Declarations cause our faith to rise and our perspectives to change. In this episode Jesica explains how declaring the truth of God's written word and rhema word have impacted her work in the world of education as well as her personal life, and challenges us press into hearing God's voice for...

Borrowed from a pivotal teaching on Declarations, Decrees, and Finding Confidence in God in 2020, Jesica addresses a core group of teachers seeking to upgrade their identity as a Kingdom Educator. She begins this episode emphasizing the importance of setting our minds on things above (see Colossians 3:2) for ourselves and our circumstances, and invites us to step into a Kingdom Educator Mindset, w...