Empowering School Counselors and Supporting Student Success with The Ultimate Tool for Tracking Graduation Pathways

School counselors play a critical role in helping students identify their interests, capitalize on their strengths, and choose a postsecondary path that aligns with their skills and personal aspirations. However, school counselors also face a myriad of challenges in keeping up with the latest industry trends, providing personalized guidance to each student, and tracking student progress effectively.  

That's where Pathways comes in – to empower school counselors to provide the best possible guidance to students, support student success, and help students make informed decisions about their future.

What is Pathways?

Pathways is a comprehensive, cloud-based platform that allows administrators and counselors to create, track, and analyze graduation pathways to ensure secondary students are on track to graduate.

The goal of Pathways is to give students multiple means to individualize and align their journey toward graduation with their own postsecondary goals. With Pathways, students are able to select options in high school that lead them toward success in life after high school. Pathways also empowers school counselors to provide personalized guidance to each student, track progress throughout students’ academic journeys, and help students set achievable postsecondary goals.

How Does Pathways Work?

Pathways collects student data from the Student Information System (SIS) including coursework, grades, and test scores, and aligns and compares that data to state requirements for graduation. School counselors can help students make informed decisions by recommending future coursework based on student goals.

Pathways also organizes all the data, so each completed requirement is clearly indicated with a checkbox and a color. Specific data points can be explored by clicking on various links throughout the Pathways check sheet for each student. This includes the various diploma types, employability skills, and postsecondary readiness requirements.

Utilizing the robust reporting features, administrators can make staffing and course catalog decisions, inform state reports, and track students’ postsecondary plans all utilizing this single resource.

What are the Benefits of Pathways?

Offering multiple graduation pathways while ensuring a high-quality standard of graduation creates complexity, which results in immense amounts of data. Pathways was created by administrators, counselors, and educators to minimize the massive amount of time needed to collect, organize, and analyze all that data in a meaningful way.  Pathways offer numerous benefits for both students and educators. Some of the key advantages of Pathways include:

Centralized Data Repository

• Automatically aggregate all data in one place, reducing human error and providing a single source of truth.
• Avoid having to rely on other people to access student progress data.
• Reduce time on data management to give counselors more face-to-face time with students.
• Empower counselors with access to the information they need to provide effective counseling.
• Access data to ensure adherence to national ratio recommendations for caseloads.

Data Visualization

• Eliminate the need to manually create spreadsheets for tracking student progress toward meeting graduation requirements.
• Visualize and present data in an easy-to-digest manner, making it easier to understand.
• Easily identify specific groups of students that require focused attention.
• Filter student data by groups and cohorts to identify trends and patterns in the data.
• Ensure all stakeholders are looking at the same data, making decision-making more effective and streamlined.

Graduation Requirement Reporting

• Eliminate the need to audit transcripts manually (no more binders full of transcripts).
• Easily access student information without “data-mining” your student information system or relying on others to generate reports.
• Empower counselors by providing them with direct access to student data.
• Automatically identify students who are missing credits required to graduate on time.

NCAA Calculation

• Quickly verify NCAA eligibility for students, providing instant results and preventing the need for manual verification.
• Standardize the eligibility verification process, ensuring consistency and accuracy.
• Gain insight into which courses are NCAA eligible, ensuring students are taking the right courses for eligibility.
• Empower counselors to better advise students on their course selection and post-secondary planning.

Pathways is an innovative and comprehensive solution for graduation and postsecondary planning designed to support K-12 public school counselors in providing the best possible guidance to their students. With its data-driven insights, industry-aligned career pathways, and real-time tracking and monitoring, Pathways will help your students achieve their full potential and reach their career goals.

Ready to learn more about this go-to resource to help students on their journey toward graduation? Click here to schedule a personalized demo with one of our solutions experts.

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