Barry Sommer's guest appearances

Barry Sommer

Rethinking Learning Podcast

Lindsay Live

Woven Wings Live

Sarah Thomas

Craig Shapiro

John Woods

Dave Burgess

Pam Moran

Darren Ellwein

Don Wettrick

Jimmy Casas

Roman Nowak

Kerry Gallagher

Lois Letchford

Eric Sheninger

Tara Martin

George Couros

Tamara Letter

OwlTail

If you’ve ever reflected on how well your actions align with your goals, you’ve likely encountered the idea of motivation. How does motivation work, and where does it come from? How can I identify my true motivations? How can I be more motivated?In today’s conversation with Barry Sommer, a licensed Educational Psychologist, Marriage and Family Therapist, and faculty member at Columbia University, we explore these questions. We also talk about how to reconcile this idea of seeking motivation, with the idea of living a life of flow and ease, and how the key is tying your motivation to what really matters to you. Barry shows us how autonomy, mastery, and a sense of purpose are crucial in building motivation for a goal, and it is this last point of connecting to a sense of purpose, and a deeper one at thatAbout Barry Sommer:Barry Sommer is a licensed Educational Psychologist, certified school psychologist, and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice in Visalia, California. He serves as the Director of Lindsay Leads for the Lindsay Unified School District, in Central California. Teaching, training, consultation and facilitation for schools, non-profits, and health organizations are special interests. His primary goal is to support personal, family, community, and organizational development and health.Barry is a graduate from Cornell University and Queens College of the City of New York, with degrees in Human Development, Psychology, and Education. Barry serves as faculty for Columbia University, teaching graduate courses in conflict management and psychology, and is the co-author of You Can Choose Your Own Life, a decision-making curriculum for middle grade students (Consulting Psychologist Press, 1994; B. Kerr and B. Sommer, 2021), and Beyond Reform: Systemic Shifts to Personalized Learning (Marzano Research, 2017).Barry’s recent book, You Can Choose Your Own Life: https://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Choose-Your-Life/dp/0891060588References: - The Surrender Experiment: My Journey Into Life’s Perfection- Punished by Rewards- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us- SMART goalsReach us at: live@wovenwings.netCredits: Intro music by David Deedwania

If you’ve ever reflected on how well your actions align with your goals, you’ve likely encountered the idea of motivation. How does motivation work, and where does it come from? How can I identify my true motivations? How can I be more motivated? In today’s conversation with Barry Sommer, a licensed Educational Psychologist, Marriage and Family Therapist, and faculty member at Columbia University, we explore these questions. We also talk about how to reconcile this idea of seeking motivation, with the idea of living a life of flow and ease, and how the key is tying your motivation to what really matters to you. Barry shows us how autonomy, mastery, and a sense of purpose are crucial in building motivation for a goal, and it is this last point of connecting to a sense of purpose, and a deeper one at that About Barry Sommer: Barry Sommer is a licensed Educational Psychologist, certified school psychologist, and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice in Visalia, California. He serves as the Director of Lindsay Leads for the Lindsay Unified School District, in Central California. Teaching, training, consultation and facilitation for schools, non-profits, and health organizations are special interests. His primary goal is to support personal, family, community, and organizational development and health. Barry is a graduate from Cornell University and Queens College of the City of New York, with degrees in Human Development, Psychology, and Education. Barry serves as faculty for Columbia University, teaching graduate courses in conflict management and psychology, and is the co-author of You Can Choose Your Own Life, a decision-making curriculum for middle grade students (Consulting Psychologist Press, 1994; B. Kerr and B. Sommer, 2021), and Beyond Reform: Systemic Shifts to Personalized Learning (Marzano Research, 2017). Barry’s recent book, You Can Choose Your Own Life: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Choose-Your-Life/dp/0891060588" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Choose-Your-Life/dp/0891060588</a> References: - <a href="https://untetheredsoul.com/surrender-experiment" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Surrender Experiment: My Journey Into Life’s Perfection</a> - <a href="https://www.alfiekohn.org/punished-rewards/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Punished by Rewards</a> - <a href="https://www.danpink.com/books/drive/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us</a> - <a href="https://www.ucop.edu/local-human-resources/_files/performance-appraisal/How%20to%20write%20SMART%20Goals%20v2.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SMART goals</a>Reach us at: live@wovenwings.netCredits: Intro music by <a href="https://daviddeedwania.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Deedwania</a>

#10 - What’s the Matter with Motivation? (with Barry Sommer)

Brenda Gonzalez

Francisca Peña

Creating connections with our learners and coworkers may be the most important thing we can do as educators. In this episode, Francisca Peña, Brenda Gonzalez, and Barry Sommer discuss the importance of making an impact on our learners lives through building relationships, and how we pass that skill along to them through the Relationship Sphere of Living, part of the Lifelong Learning standards that are integrated into the Lindsay Unified curriculum.

Relationship Sphere of Living | Lindsay Live #016 | Francisca Peña, Brenda Gonzalez, Barry Sommer

          Barry Sommer is a Licensed Educational Psychologist, a Marriage and Family Therapist, and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. He recently retired as the Director of Advancement at Lindsay Unified School District where he was responsible for Lindsay Leads which was the CyberSchool reimagining learning at Lindsay Unified. Currently, Barry and Kelley Layton are ... The post Episode #102: Reimagining Personalized Learning through Lindsay Leads with Barry Sommer first appeared on Rethinking Learning.

Barry Sommer is a Licensed Educational Psychologist, a Marriage and Family Therapist, and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. He recently retired as the Director of Advancement at Lindsay Unified School District where he was responsible for Lindsay Leads which was the CyberSchool reimagining learning at Lindsay Unified. Currently, Barry and Kelley Layton are ... The post <a href="https://barbarabray.net/2020/07/29/episode-102-reimagining-personalized-learning-through-lindsay-leads-with-barry-sommer/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode #102: Reimagining Personalized Learning through Lindsay Leads with Barry Sommer</a> first appeared on <a href="https://barbarabray.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rethinking Learning</a>.

Episode #102: Reimagining Personalized Learning through Lindsay Leads with Barry Sommer