{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Make It Mindful: An Education Podcast","title":"#89 Designing Global Cohorts with Travis Moyer","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1531,"description":"In this episode of Make It Mindful, Seth talks with Travis Moyer - Banyan Global Learning's Director of Programming - about Global Cohorts, the four-week virtual exchange program he piloted this spring with three classroom cohorts, and what happens when students design their own festivals for an international audience. Moyer has written previously about designing for flow and deep engagement in virtual classrooms, and that thinking shows up directly in how the program's activities are structured.\nTogether, Seth and Travis explore the origin of Global Cohorts in Banyan's 18-year partnership with Tsai Hsing School in Taipei, the recurring failure points of ad hoc classroom-to-classroom partnerships, and how running multiple cohorts in parallel solves for one partner dropping out mid-unit. They walk through the festivals unit step by step - how students share their own local festivals, study festivals from around the world, get matched with partner schools ahead of time, and eventually use AI to visualize a festival of their own design. The conversation lands on what happened when the exercise reached a cohort of Ukrainian students who'd been scattered by the war: without being prompted to, nearly every student built a festival about family and cultural preservation.\n\nKey topics:Global Cohorts program design and originBanyan's 18-year partnership with Tsai Hsing School, TaipeiSolving classroom-partnership dropout with parallel cohortsThe festivals unit: weekly structure and cadenceUsing AI to visualize student-designed festivalsUkrainian student cohort and displacementPlace-based identity themes across cohorts (Minneapolis, Calgary)\n\nLinks & Resources:Banyan Global Cohorts program: https://www.banyangloballearning.com/programs/global-cohorts\"The Flow State and Education: Deep Focus, Engagement, and Productivity\" — Banyan Global Learning blog, December 20, 2024\n\nGuest Bio: Travis MoyerTravis Moyer is Banyan Global Learning's Director of Programming, where he oversees...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/aX0c3Zcu_BWgnhhPpU7UI3YNLxRjFjQabj8M1H8irwE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hZjhi/ZWY0ZTA5YTUxYjE1/YTlmY2NlYTQ3NDkz/ZDZlYS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}