Toolkit
How Do I Help Our Colleges Implement Guided Pathways?
Making the Case
The Guided Pathways framework can be found here. For more information and video resources on the revised (Sept. 2019) Pillar 4: Ensuring Students are Learning, click here.
JFF and national providers, such as the National Center for Inquiry and Improvement (NCII), help Centers and colleges build momentum for guided pathways efforts. Initial work with colleges typically focuses on case-making with key stakeholders. Some institutions are expanding their focus to include meta-majors and program mapping, and JFF is introducing services in these areas.
- Demystifying Guided Pathways II - webinar recording, slides
- NCII publications (including Demystifying Guided Pathways I and II)
Strategic Finance
- NCII Guided Pathways ROI Model Excel Spreadsheet
- NCII Guided Pathways ROI Model Overview
- NCII Guided Pathways ROI Model Instructions
- NCII Guided Pathways ROI Webinar (audience: SSC Network) recording, slides
- rpk GROUP blank ROI template
- rpk GROUP sample ROI template (as developed for OH colleges)
- rpk GROUP webinar training (with slides)
Assessment
JFF and the Community College Research Center (CCRC), a national provider, help Centers and colleges use the Guided Pathways Scale of Adoption self-assessment, which CCRC developed. JFF and CCRC conduct workshops for Centers that explain the assessment in detail. Then Centers support colleges as they complete the assessment and use the results to plan next steps.
Scale of Adoption self-assessment resources:
- Cover Letter with explanation of the following documents
- Sample College Completed Assessment
- Follow-up Notes and Protocol Template
- Follow-up Interview Notes
- Guided Pathways Practice Indicators
- Common Challenges & Sample Probing Questions
- Blank Megatemplate
- Scale of Adoption Assessment
- Workshop #1 slides
- Workshop #2 slides
- Workshop #2 recording
Center resources on the Scale of Adoption:
Holistic Supports
JFF is partnering with Achieving the Dream to assist Student Success Centers as they support their states’ colleges in redesigning advising and student supports through an integrated and holistic approach to helping students through guided pathways. Achieving the Dream provides a range of tools and services focused on making the case and building awareness for redesigning advising and student supports, as well as facilitating the structural, process, and behavioral changes needed to improve student success.
- ATD Holistic Student Supports Redesign Toolkit
- Example of 1-day agenda and 2-day agenda for advising redesign institutes
- Slides from Financial Stability workshop at JFF Financial Stability Summit (May 2018)
Student Financial Stability
Student Financial Stability Toolkits
- Achieving the Dream's Holistic Student Supports Redesign toolkit
- Lumina Foundation's Beyond Financial Aid toolkit
- Campus Food Pantry: AtD brief; CUFBA how-to guide; Student Government toolkit
- The Hope Center's campus guide for assessing student insecurities
- The Hope Center's guide for distributing emergency aid
Working Student Success Network
- Achieving the Dream's project resources
- Implementation and outcomes evaluation reports
Policy Briefs
- Achieving the Dream's policy self-assessment tool
- Center for Law and Social Policy's framework
- JFF's white paper on addressing economic insecurity
Data and Indicators
- The Hope Center's reports
- United Way's ALICE reports
- Urban Institute's food insecurity on campus
- Center for Financial Services Innovation's financial health indicators
- NCII's Financial Stability Scale of Adoption Assessment
Presentations
- Supporting Student Financial Stability slides - NCII presentation with Michigan
- MI Bridges portal - slides from presentation at MI Institute
- Agenda from MI Student Financial Stability Institute
- Webinar recap from MI Student Financial Stability Institute
JFF's May 2018 Student Financial Stability Summit Materials
- Achieving the Dream's presentation
- Center for Financial Services Innovation's presentation
Coaching
The SSCN Coaching Toolbox can be found here.
JFF launched the SSCN Guided Pathways Coaching Program in the summer of 2018, building on the work we started in 2017 with the Community College Research Initiatives (CCRI) at the University of Washington through the Assessment, Research, and Coaching Pilot Projects.
The two components of the SSCN Coaching Program are:
1. SSCN Coaching Grants: Centers who were selected through an application process received coaching grants to support their execution of strategic, evidence-based guided pathways coaching implementation programs in their states. For a cohort of the grantees, CCRI is providing research-based consultation to assist Centers in their design and delivery of evidence-based coaching for change.
CCRI Resources:
- Lessons Learned from SSCN Coaching Pilot (see also JFF's blog on coaching)
- Pilot Coaching Profiles: New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon
2. SSCN Coaching Training: Center EDs selected individuals from their states to be trained as coaches and deployed by Centers to colleges. The curriculum for the training is designed in partnership with Achieving the Dream and the Pathways Collaborative.
Resources for SSC staff and coaches:
Underprepared Students
JFF is partnering with Carnegie Math Pathways at WestEd and The Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin to help SSCs and their colleges support their underprepared students. Both organizations work across several states and institutions to support the effective implementation of mathematics pathways that allow all students to take math courses aligned with their program of study and earn college-level math credit in their first year.
Change Management
JFF is partnering with the Aspen Institute to help Student Success Centers develop transformational leaders in their states. The transformational change required of community colleges to effectively implement institution-wide change such as guided pathways reforms requires leaders—at every level of community college stakeholders, but especially in the CEO role—who have a deep commitment to and understanding of change leadership. The Centers are uniquely poised to help develop this vital leadership capacity across states.
Resources developed by The Aspen Institute
