How One New Middle School Model in California Forges Ahead

You all met Theron Cosgrave and Principal Ally Rocco in episodes
67, and 77. Since October of 2019, I’ve been following this group
of educators in California’s central valley as they work to build
one of the most innovative middle school models I’ve heard
anything about in recent decades.


MAD Tech characterizes some of the most important questions in
education for me. Here’s just one example in my mind: What does
it mean to intersect great learning design with great design for
physical spaces in this age where we've learned so much about how
the two can complement one another?


In this episode we’re joined by Laura Quiroz, Dean of Curriculum,
Instruction, and Assessment, to hear more about how the
instructional model for MadTech has been forced to flex, and more
about what they're learning in relation to the core principles of
their design that they've been able to carry over in spite of
COVID. 


One of a few bright spots that the school is leveraging and that
came up in our conversation is their use of VDI. We didn't get to
come back to this in the conversation, though Allyson and Laura
messaged me moments after it came up in our conversation to
answer my question about the acronym. VDI stands for Virtual
Desktop Infrastructure. I bring it up again here to ask that if
you or someone you know are an expert with VDI, I'd love to hear
from them on social media. Share resources you may have about
case studies that have worked using VDI to extend access to
software that may not run easily on a chromebook. I'll share
those resources in an upcoming episode.


Links:


Madera Unified Schools: https://www.madera.k12.ca.us/


Desktop Virtualization:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_virtualization


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