Growing Learners in Challenging Times with Kevin Honeycutt (EP157)

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Kevin Honeycutt is a technology integrationist, staff developer, musician, and songwriter. He has worked with teachers and learners in 49 states plus Puerto Rico and delivered keynotes to audiences around the world in places such as Norway, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Barcelona, New Zealand, London, Manila, Canada, and Australia. In 2021 he partnered with his wife of 31 years to start his own company, Honeycutt Consulting, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Kevin has some opportunities for you. Make sure you keep listening.

I think of my networks as a jar of lightning bugs. Each person I connect with flashes their light occasionally. If I collect enough of these luminous people I can always find my way forward, even in the dark.

Your WHY

I am a reluctant warrior. As a child, I found myself on a battlefield created by my father’s choices that led to poverty, poor nutrition, and assignments to the lowest strata of the social constructs of whatever school in whatever state I ended up in. As I grew up, frustration and determination germinated in me led me to be the first Honeycutt to go to college and the first person in my family to become an educator.

Building Real Relationships (making kids feel seen)

Background

I grew up in poverty, living on welfare and being sent to foster homes and occasionally robbing the Goodwill Box looking for clothes. I attended school in more than 20 states before becoming the first high school and college graduate in my family. I taught K-12 art, and summer art camps and wrote and directed high school plays for 13 years. During that time I was nominated for Sallie Mae Master Teacher, Kansas Master Teacher and won the Making IT Happen Award and published in art education journals. I then transitioned to a role as a staff developer and keynote speaker at an educational non-profit service agency for the next 17 years. There, I conceived and developed multiple research-based programs in the areas of project-based learning, trauma/poverty-informed instruction, SEL, STEM/STEAM education, and Creating Your Digital Legacy presentations for teens.

My Space Capsule Project

Launching into creative STEM/STEAM learning!

Musician, Songwriter

How I started

I started sketching a Steampunk Guitar way back in 8th grade, that dream finally came true!

Stop Bullying and create Kinder cultures in Schools

The event that started a movement

What happens when your kid gets bullied by the popular kids and all of his friends either join in or remain silent while they are systematically destroyed? How do we create kinder cultures in schools?

Join the mission and let’s make a better world for kids.

• Some of my resources
• My FREE Drawing Lessons:
• Free 9 Weeks Anti-bullying Curriculum:

Some of what we talked about and my PD offerings

• Working with kids from tough places
• Building Powerful voices
• Re-finding Teacher Wings
• Refocusing on what brings us power and joy
• Walking into your light
• Re-Believe: Your school ready for hope and inspiration
• Why Teachers Rock

Kevin Honeycutt’s Contact info

Website: https://kevinhoneycutt.org
Email: kevin@honeycuttconsultinginc.com
Twitter (X): @kevinhoneycutt
Threads @kevin_honeycutt
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kevinhoneycuttplace

Find me on social media!

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I hope you enjoy the conversation with Kevin Honeycutt on my virtual porch. I’ve known Kevin for over twenty years and have always loved his energy. He said I was a lightning bug and that brought up what it was like growing up on the East Coast catching fireflies. So I added the quote about lightning bugs in this post. Check out the post about Kevin’s amazing experiences on his journey so you have access to all of his resources, videos, links and contact information. Please share this podcast and the post with your friends.

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