Ensure Students are Learning
This section provides practical tools, research, and strategies to help institutions integrate effective teaching and learning practices within the guided pathways framework, ensuring student success and improved academic outcomes.
Foundations
Understand this pillar of Guided Pathways and informed practices from across the field for strengthening learning and engagement.
Key Takeaways and Recommendations to Strengthen Guided Pathways
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) engaged 20 campuses to study the effects of the Guided Pathways framework on teaching and learning outcomes, focusing on areas like course design, student engagement, and equity. This report offers learnings and recommendations from interviews, surveys, and research activities to evaluate how faculty teams implemented new components of the framework and their impact on student success.
Key Takeaways and Recommendations to Strengthen Guided Pathways
Key Takeaways and Recommendations to Strengthen Guided PathwaysPaths to Success: How Community Colleges Are Strengthening Guided Pathways to Ensure Students Are Learning
This report showcases strategies from 20 community colleges advancing student learning within guided pathways. It highlights course redesign, faculty learning communities, and data-driven improvements that institutional leaders can adapt to enhance student success and career readiness.
Paths to Success: How Community Colleges Are Strengthening Guided Pathways to Ensure Students Are LearningIntroduction to Guided Pathways: Ensuring Students Learn and Early Outcomes
This video explores how students benefit from evidence-based, high-impact learning practices and how institutions can support student success through teaching improvement and data-driven early outcomes analysis. Created by OCCRL, it provides guidance for college leaders implementing guided pathways.
Introduction to Guided Pathways: Ensuring Students Learn and Early OutcomesIntroduction to Guided Pathways: Ensuring Students Learn and Early Outcomes
Engage Faculty in the Process
Get faculty onboard and work with their expertise to support pathways alignment. Faculty can play a key role in aligning courses with program outcomes and transfer/career goals, participating in curriculum redesign and assessment, and serving as mentors, advisors, and champions of student-centered teaching practices.
Teaching and Learning Within a Guided Pathways Framework: A Playbook
This playbook provides strategies for engaging faculty in guided pathways implementation. Drawing from national faculty survey data, it offers tools for strengthening applied learning, assessment, and student engagement to improve academic outcomes.
Teaching and Learning Within a Guided Pathways Framework: A Playbook
Teaching and Learning Within a Guided Pathways Framework: A PlaybookDesign Student- and Pathways-Centered Learning Experiences
Strategies, tools, and informed practices to support student-centered learning environments and high quality engagement so that students can meet their goals on their terms.
TLA Framework
AAC&U’s Teaching-Learning-Assessment (TLA) Framework is a web-based tool designed to help institutions strengthen teaching and learning within guided pathways. It provides resources for faculty and administrators to implement high-impact practices and improve student outcomes.
TLA FrameworkTeaching and Learning for Equitable Student Outcomes
This resource explores instructional strategies that empower students, align with their motivations, and support their academic and career growth. Designed for faculty and institutional leaders, it highlights effective teaching practices that foster engagement and economic mobility.
Teaching and Learning for Equitable Student Outcomes
Teaching and Learning for Equitable Student OutcomesDesign an Online Learning Experience That Leads Students to Success
This guide supports educators in creating interactive, student-centered online learning environments. Focused on collaboration and engagement, it helps institutions strengthen teaching practices that drive learning and achievement in digital spaces.
Design an Online Learning Experience That Leads Students to Success
Design an Online Learning Experience That Leads Students to SuccessMaking Learning Matter: Building Guided Learning Pathways at LaGuardia Community College
This case study details how LaGuardia Community College embedded learning improvement into guided pathways through core competencies, faculty development, and ePortfolio integration. College leaders can use this resource to align teaching and learning with structural reforms to enhance student success.
Making Learning Matter: Building Guided Learning Pathways at LaGuardia Community College
Making Learning Matter: Building Guided Learning Pathways at LaGuardia Community College