GUIDED PATHWAYS

• 2021 Student Onboarding Report: In efforts to support students through a seamless onboarding process, Student-Ready-Strategies (SRS) conducted, "surveys, focus groups, and a national landscape scan to identify opportunities and provide recommendations for the Florida College System institutions." 

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• Environmental Scan Florida Student Success Center: Achieving the Dream conducted an environmental scan of institutional, state, and national student success initiatives relevant to Florida and its 28 state and community colleges. The scan provides a summary of student success initiatives for implementing guided pathways and a mapping of institutional strategies across existing activities. The scan is intended to be used as a living document to capture the ongoing work of Florida’s colleges. Areas in which the Florida College System and the Student Success Center may wish to focus to strengthen implementation of guided pathways and advance student success are highlighted in the executive summary.

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• Guided Pathways Resource Center: Tools and Resources for Colleges: The resource center includes training modules, toolkits, and materials on the guided pathways model. The site features videos in which a range of people — including practitioners, college presidents, and pathways partners — share their experiences and expertise and students share how pathways help them make informed educational choices and stay on track.

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• Guided Pathways: Planning, Implementation, Evaluation: A visual overview of the full process for developing guided pathways including the primary aspects of planning, implementation and evaluation. The focus of efforts are on early outcomes that measure key performance indicators.

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• Guided Pathways: Best Practices at Florida College System Institutions: In 2017, Broward College and St. Petersburg College provided an update on their implementation of guided pathways work which included an explanation of why the work is needed and how each college is working to keep students on pathways while comprehensively streamlining the college experience from access to completion.

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• What We are Learning About Guided Pathways: The Community College Research Center developed a practitioner’s packet examining what implementing guided pathways entails, along with promising evidence from early adopters. The packet provides an overview of the change in practice in the four areas of the guided pathways model, case studies on key pathways practices and a discussion of implementing pathways reform.

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• Guided Pathways Demystified: Exploring Ten Commonly Asked Questions About Implementing Pathways: This National Center for Inquiry & Improvement report addresses concerns about compromising higher education values, practical considerations about control and enrollment as well as apprehensions about the impact on students’ learning and development in an effort to address issues to successfully pursue guided pathways. A visual overview of the full process for developing guided pathways, including the primary aspects of planning, implementation and evaluation. The focus of efforts are on early outcomes that measure key performance indicators.

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• Guided Pathways Demystified II: Addressing 10 New Questions as the Movement Gains Momentum: A follow-up report from the National Center for Inquiry & Improvement explores new questions as a result of the interest and implementation of guided pathways with a focus on culture change, implications for the student experience, practical concerns for educators and operational considerations.