California Guided Pathways Playbook
The California Guided Pathways Playbook is a guide to actionable, student-centered and equity-focused strategies for college professionals to implement Guided Pathways and achieve the bold goals outlined in the Vision for Success (2017), the Governors Roadmap (2021) and Vision 2030 (2023). The playbook offers a series of briefs that includes strategies, resources and examples. The briefs draw from the experiences of 34 colleges participating in institutes and webinars of the California Guided Pathways 2.0 project.
Institute Insights Briefs
Creating Guided Pathways to Prosperity and Equity
Learn evidence-based practices to help students explore, plan and choose high-opportunity programs of study and how to use data to help ensure students’ community college journey leads to family-supporting careers or transfer.
Connecting Students to Their Program of Study and the Greater Campus Community
Gain tools and insights to implement equitable program onboarding institutionwide; reduce barriers for students; and help them to explore, connect, plan and gain momentum in a field of interest to land a meaningful career.
Developing a Holistic and Student-Centered Ecosystem
Learn how each and every college professional can be part of the shift toward an integrated, student-centered ecosystem to ensure all students have the financial stability, health and support networks they need to gain momentum and complete their program path.
Teaching and Learning as a Key Strategy to Ensure Equitable Student Outcomes
Explore high-impact instructional practices that honor students’ agency and leverage their motivations and interests to support their success in learning and economic mobility.
Engaging the Entire Institution in Guided Pathways Implementation
Foster an institutionwide commitment to implement Guided Pathways reforms at scale to ensure improved and more equitable student outcomes.
Creating Sustainability and Charting the Path Forward
Gain strategies and resources to sustain Guided Pathways work and map out next steps to continue equitably serving students and creating pathways to family-sustaining wages.
Webinar Insights Briefs
Build a Sense of Belonging and Connection at Community College
Gain a deeper understanding of the importance of creating a sense of belonging for students’ engagement and success, and learn to design student experiences that will help students feel like they belong in their meta-major so they can enter and stay on their educational path.
Create a Coalition of Support to Lead Large-Scale Change
Learn mindsets and habits to build your and others’ capacity to make a whole-college commitment and lead large-scale change together.
Designing Student Success Teams to Provide a Student-Centered Ecosystem
Explore evidence-based strategies from community colleges across the nation that are designing and implementing equity-focused and student-centered Student Success Teams on their campuses to meet students’ needs.
Create Conditions of Success for Students of Color
Gain strategies to connect more deeply with students of color and create an environment that fosters unconditional belonging among students and faculty to support student success and prepare them with promotion-ready skills for today’s careers.
Design an Online Learning Experience That Leads Students to Success
Learn to design a collaborative and active online learning environment and strengthen an institutionwide commitment to high-impact, equitable teaching and learning that will ensure learning and students’ success.
Redesigning the Student Experience at Scale
Learn a design thinking approach to remake the student experience at scale from enrollment to completion.
Growing Enrollment by Better Serving Skills Builders
Gain strategies on how to use data to support adult learners and grow enrollment.
Designing Inclusive Pathways for Adult Learners
Learn strategies to ensure that Black and African American, Latine/Latinx and Indigenous adult learners have a clear, supported path to a high-value postsecondary credential and family-sustaining wages.