In 2014, he worked with alternative school students, Ontario’s Shaw Festival and ORION research and education network, to develop the first student-sourced curriculum material for the season’s production of Arms and the Man. He is the Secondary Co-chair of Toronto’s Alternative Schools Advisory Committee and Curriculum Leader at SEED, the continent’s oldest public alternative school. Rodrigues has written and presented internationally on Life Writing in Jazz and Education, on literature, cinema and drama. In 2017, he contributed a chapter to Alternative Schooling and Student Engagement: Canadian Stories of Democracy within Bureaucracy.