Named for the woman who coordinated 67 districts and proved that education scales when you trust the people doing the work.
Building 20 is the Tracy Rodriguez Education Building — named for the woman who coordinated 67 districts and proved that education scales when you trust the people doing the work. Education lived in the DCV Building (Building 5) east wing until v3.6, when the program outgrew its shared space. The content was big enough, the mission distinct enough, and the pipeline from birth to age 22 demanded dedicated infrastructure.
The department’s philosophy is simple and stubborn: education is not a system you administer — it’s a story people choose to join. Everything in the building — teacher training, learning sciences, instructional design — bends toward that conviction.
Teaching students to read a system the way a detective reads a scene — the analytic spine of the College XX curriculum.
The signature instructional program — paired with the Regional Education Network and the “I Did It, You Can Too” Scholarship Program.
The Quantum Hall Pass Lab, the Fractal Kitchen/Bakery, and the Underground Classroom — learning environments built into the building itself.
The dedicated birth-to-age-22 pipeline that demanded this building exist — the through-line from a child’s first day to a finished education.
A 340,000-child book delivery system — the program that puts books into the hands of the children who need them.
Hume Fogg student who built “Drinky & Stinky,” her paired AI environmental monitors — the student who BECAME the method. Her pipeline runs to ELUSK Engineering.
Born 2011 in the Underground Nuclear Lab — living proof that the pipeline works. “People don’t join programs. They join stories.”
The co-deans’ office, faculty, and the full academic program live in the Tracy Rodriguez Education Building. Education’s philosophical anchor remains in DCV’s ATLAS Framework (Building 5), with bridges to International Affairs (Building 19) and ELUSK Engineering (Building 10).
The browser labs that live here — each a working instrument, not a slideshow.
“Education is not a system you administer.
It’s a story people choose to join.”