From starting point to success—individualized instruction that drives lasting learning outcomes.
Choose from over one thousand standards-aligned adaptive learning paths to provide your students the most comprehensive curriculum in Math and ELA for Grades K-8.
Simply drag and drop any standards from any K-8 grades to build your own custom learning paths. You can also copy our ready-made learning paths and customize them to your needs.
Create personalized learning paths using students’ most recent MAP RIT scores, so they’re always working on the skills that match their MAP goal areas.
Comprehensive Curriculum Designed for Mastery
Deliver engaging instruction, rigorous practice, and tech-enhanced formative assessments—all in one cohesive platform.
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Our K–8 math curriculum is built from the ground up with the coherence, rigor, and depth needed to ensure students achieve true mastery of every math standard across your curriculum.
Build Math Confidence with Fact Fluency
Students love building their fact fluency in Pathways Learning! This feature helps learners strengthen their math fluency while improving speed and accuracy—at their own pace. Along the way, they earn rewards and feel a sense of pride simply for practicing—not just for hitting a target score.
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Fact Fluency supports all four math operations and gives teachers full control, including customizable number ranges for both positive and negative values—making it easy to align practice with classroom goals.
Bring Learning to Life with Real-World Projects
Engage. Explore. Apply.
Capture student interest through real-world problems that promote critical thinking and foster deep understanding in a problem-solving context.
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Project Assignments
Assign interactive projects that encourage students to actively explore authentic, real-world scenarios. Customize response fields to guide their thinking and capture meaningful reflections and solutions.
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Review & Feedback
Quickly review project submissions, analyze student responses, and deliver timely, personalized feedback—all online, with just a few clicks.
Comprehensive Curriculum Designed for Mastery
Engage students with thoughtfully crafted instruction, rigorous practice, and tech-enhanced formative assessments—delivered through a cohesive, adaptive platform.
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Our K–8 ELA curriculum is built from the ground up with the coherence, rigor, and alignment needed to help students achieve deep mastery of every literacy standard in your curriculum.
Personalized Reading That Adapts to Every Learner
Pathways Learning’s adaptive eBooks and reading solution delivers a fully personalized reading journey for every student, featuring hundreds of leveled eBooks aligned to Guided Reading Levels (GRL) and pre-built learning paths designed for grades K–8. With automation, adaptability, and real-time insights, reading growth has never been easier to manage or more impactful.
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Adaptive Reading Paths
Empower students with continuously personalized, self-paced reading journeys. Pathways Learning adapts in real time to each student’s level and progress, ensuring they’re always reading at the right level.
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Pre-Built & Custom Learning Paths
Access grade-aligned reading paths instantly, or build your own with ease. You can also explore and assign curated learning paths created by peers and shared across the Pathways Learning community.
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Digital Reading Logs
Assign any book—whether from Pathways Learning’s online eBook library or offline texts—and manage reading logs entirely online, saving time and simplifying documentation.
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Built-In Comprehension Quizzes
Automatically assess student understanding with comprehension quizzes linked to eBooks, helping you track reading proficiency without additional manual grading.
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Insights & Reports
Monitor reading progress in real time through our intuitive dashboard. Get class-wide analytics or drill down to individual student performance with ease.
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Motivate with Contests & Friendly Competition
Fuel a love for reading through engaging contests and peer competition—keeping students motivated, accountable, and excited to read more.
Elevate Student Writing with Research-Backed Pedagogy
Pathways Learning embraces a proven writing approach grounded in the power of feedback and revision—a method shown by research to significantly improve writing outcomes. Our writing feature is purposefully designed to support iterative refinement, helping students grow as confident, capable writers.
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Flexible Writing Assignments
From daily journals to multi-paragraph expository essays, assign writing tasks of any complexity with just a few clicks—whether to one student or an entire class.
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Revision & Feedback Made Easy
Drive better writing performance through timely feedback and clear revision requests. Annotate submissions, guide improvements, and manage feedback for multiple students efficiently—all within a single platform.
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Customizable Rubrics
Assess student writing consistently using a built-in rubric, or create your own to reflect specific goals, standards, or classroom expectations.
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Actionable Insights & Data
Instantly analyze class-wide writing performance and drill down to individual student progress. Identify common problem areas and use rubric-based analytics to inform instruction and intervention.
Adaptive Spelling & Vocabulary That Scales with Every Student
Pathways Learning was among the first in the industry to deliver a truly adaptive spelling and vocabulary solution—equipped with pre-built, grade-aligned word lists and automated learning paths for students in grades K–8. Every student experiences a fully personalized and self-paced journey toward language mastery.
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Pre-Built Word Lists
Access comprehensive, grade-aligned spelling word lists and learning paths from Kindergarten through 8th grade. Easily create your own custom lists or explore shared word sets from fellow educators and the broader Pathways Learning community.
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Adaptive Practice
Let Pathways Learning take the lead with adaptive, self-paced spelling practice that responds to each student’s performance—delivering the right words at the right time for maximum retention.
Bring Learning to Life with Real-World Projects
Engage. Explore. Apply.
Capture student interest through real-world problems that promote critical thinking and foster deep understanding in a problem-solving context.
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Project Assignments
Assign interactive projects that encourage students to actively explore authentic, real-world scenarios. Customize response fields to guide their thinking and capture meaningful reflections and solutions.
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Review & Feedback
Quickly review project submissions, analyze student responses, and deliver timely, personalized feedback—all online, with just a few clicks.
Smarter Placement, Personalized Learning
Pathways Learning’s adaptive placement goes beyond traditional testing by performing a comprehensive, real-time assessment of each student’s knowledge. It begins by evaluating independent concepts, then progresses to dependent concepts, building a precise Student Learning DNA profile that drives personalized practice and scaffolding.
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Continuous, Dynamic Assessment
Unlike static placement tests that offer only a snapshot, Pathways Learning continuously assesses students—even after initial placement—ensuring their Learning DNA evolves with their progress. This enables a truly dynamic and adaptive learning experience.
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Actionable, Color-Coded Insights
Placement results are displayed using intuitive, color-coded visuals, making it quick and easy for educators to review concept-level mastery and identify areas in need of support.
Truly Personalized Learning—For Every Student, Every Step of the Way
Every student is unique. Pathways Learning’s adaptive practice engine meets each learner exactly where they are—delivering the right level of practice, instruction, scaffolding, and learning checks to ensure mastery in every concept.
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Learning Paths That Align to Your Curriculum
Learning paths define the scope and sequence of what students need to master. Use Pathways Learning’s pre-built grade-level learning paths or design custom paths aligned to your curriculum, IEPs, or instructional goals.
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Dynamic, Real-Time Personalization
Pathways Learning continuously personalizes the student’s journey based on every response they give—adapting in real time to deliver the most relevant practice and support, moment by moment.
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Automatic, In-the-Moment Learning Bites
When a student struggles, Pathways Learning automatically delivers targeted video learning bites at the moment of need—empowering students to learn independently and continue moving forward.
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Real-Time Scaffolding for Foundational Gaps
If prerequisite concepts are missing, Pathways Learning seamlessly scaffolds learning down to earlier-grade skills—helping students build the foundation they need before resuming their path to mastery.
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Mastery That Lasts
Strategically spaced Mastery Checks revisit previously practiced concepts over time, ensuring students can retain and apply knowledge long after initial practice—making learning stick.
Targeted Practice That Saves Time and Delivers Insight
Efficiently assign extra practice or enrichment on specific concepts with auto-graded, targeted practice assignments. These assignments help reinforce learning, provide immediate insights, and save valuable instructional time.
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Assign Practice with Precision
Easily create targeted assignments by selecting specific concepts, the number of questions, individual or group recipients, and a due date—all in just a few clicks.
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Anytime Access, Real-Time Tracking
Students can complete assignments from anywhere, at any time. Meanwhile, you gain real-time visibility into submissions, performance, and completion status.
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Instant, Actionable Insights
With automatic grading, results are instantly organized by student and concept—making it easy to identify learning gaps, trends, and opportunities for support or enrichment.
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Quick Review & Feedback
Conveniently review student responses at your own pace and provide timely, personalized feedback with just a few clicks.
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Smart Alerts Keep Everyone on Track
Just-in-time reminders automatically notify teachers, students, and linked parents—ensuring no assignment is ever overlooked.
Empower Learning with Bite-Sized Instruction
Pathways Learning’s Learning Bites help students become confident, independent learners by delivering clear, engaging, and on-demand video instruction—whether they need to revisit a concept or explore something new.
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Engaging Instructional Videos
Each Learning Bite is designed to be concise, focused, and engaging—making it easy for students to quickly grasp or refresh a concept when needed.
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Just-in-Time Learning Support
Students can access Learning Bite videos anytime by clicking the Learn button. Pathways Learning also automatically delivers Learning Bite when it detects a student is struggling—providing help in the moment, when it’s most effective.
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Browse & Assign with Ease
Explore our standards-aligned Content Library to find Learning Bite videos that match your goals. Assign them to students, track progress, and provide feedback—all within the platform.
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Upload & Share Your Own Learning Bites
Create your own instructional videos, tag them to relevant standards, and assign them to your students. Site-level users can also share custom Learning Bites across their professional learning community.
Quickly Gauge Understanding and Track Growth
Pathways Learning makes it easy to measure student knowledge, monitor growth, and inform instruction—using high-quality, tech-enhanced learning check questions. Whether you’re leveraging our free question bank or authoring your own content, giving students a quick learning check has never been more flexible or insightful.
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Comprehensive, Standards-Aligned Question Bank
Access a robust library of free, high-quality, tech-enhanced items aligned to academic standards—ready to use for assessing any concept or skill.
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Entry & Exit tickets for Instant Insight
Create quick entry and exit tickets for any standard to gather real-time formative insights and make timely instructional decisions.
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Auto-Generate Learning Checks in Seconds
Easily check student understanding by selecting concepts, setting the number of questions, reviewing or reordering items, and clicking save—it’s that fast and intuitive.
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Custom Builder
Build your own learning checks using Pathways Learning’s question bank with a user-friendly, shopping-cart-style experience that makes assembling learning checks fast and enjoyable.
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Intuitive Authoring Tool
No technical expertise required. Easily create custom, technology-enhanced items and learning checks with our sleek, drag-and-drop authoring interface.
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Real-Time, Actionable Insights
Learning check results are instantly visualized, helping you quickly identify learning gaps and guide instruction—so you can spend more time teaching and less time analyzing data.
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Measure Longitudinal Growth
Track student progress over time with detailed reports that break down growth by student, standard, or learning path—giving you a clear picture of academic development.
Take the Guesswork Out of Intervention
Introducing a smarter, data-driven way to identify which standards need re-teaching and which students need targeted support—before learning gaps widen.
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Just-In-Time Scaffolding
Pathways Learning dynamically delivers prerequisite content both within and across grade levels, ensuring students get the foundational knowledge they need—right when they need it—to keep moving forward.
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Predictive Intervention Insights
Our Intervention Monitor helps you proactively identify and respond to student needs across all tiers of support:
• Tier 1: Whole-class instruction
• Tier 2: Small group reinforcement
• Tier 3: One-on-one interventions
Get clear, actionable insights to guide re-teaching and remediation with confidence.
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Monitor Improvement with Precision
Assign targeted improvement practices and track student proficiency gains over time—giving you a clear view into the effectiveness of your interventions.
Unlock Insights. Maximize Impact.
Make smarter instructional decisions with Pathways Learning’s real-time, intuitive dashboards and detailed reports. Get a clear, actionable view of every student’s learning journey—so you can drive progress, close gaps, and accelerate achievement.
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Classroom Dashboard
Gain a quick, at-a-glance view of your class and individual student performance. Easily identify who needs support and take targeted action to move struggling learners toward mastery.
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Activity Insights
Track student engagement and usage with activity dashboards and reports. Monitor how time is spent, identify patterns, and turn insights into meaningful instructional adjustments.
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Mastery Insights
See how students are progressing toward standard mastery—both class-wide and individually. Use this data to inform pacing, groupings, and instructional focus areas.
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Learning Insights
Review detailed summaries of mastery proficiency. Drill down by standard and question to identify misconceptions and measure growth between learning checks with precision.
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Intervention Insights
Proactively identify students who are falling behind and deliver targeted support—whether through whole-class, small-group, or 1:1 interventions—to keep every student on the path to mastery.
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Smart Alerts
Never miss a beat with intelligent alerts that notify you when students need help or have incomplete assignments. Students receive timely nudges, too—helping them stay on track and accountable.
Turn Data Into Action with Knowledge Heatmaps
Pathways Learning’s Knowledge Heatmaps use network-powered insights to help you predict which concepts will be most challenging—before students even struggle. Backed by millions of data points, these visual tools make it easy to plan smarter instruction and drive student success.
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Predict Difficult Concepts with Confidence
Gain deep insights from data analyzed across thousands of students. Concepts are color-coded by difficulty level, allowing you to instantly identify high-priority areas in your curriculum and build a proactive instructional strategy.
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Take Action with Targeted Support
With real-time insights at your fingertips, you can take immediate action. Select one or more concepts directly from the Heatmap to assign instructional lessons or targeted practice—reinforcing the exact skills students need, exactly when they need them.
Foster a Growth Mindset That Drives Lifelong Learning
Help students build resilience, embrace challenges, and understand that effort and persistence are the keys to success. Pathways Learning integrates research-based strategies to nurture a growth mindset in every learner.
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The Research Behind Growth Mindset
Grounded in the work of Dr. Carol Dweck, the concept of a growth mindset emphasizes that intelligence and abilities can be developed through effort and learning. Research shows that students’ beliefs about their own potential can significantly impact motivation, achievement, and long-term success.
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Constructive Feedback That Builds Confidence
Pathways Learning reinforces growth mindset principles by delivering constructive, real-time feedback that helps students see mistakes as learning opportunities. This encourages persistence, resilience, and a belief in effort as the path to mastery.
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Daily Growth Mindset Messaging
Students are welcomed each day with auto-generated messages that reinforce the value of effort, learning from mistakes, and continuous growth. Teachers can also personalize and schedule their own messages to inspire and motivate.
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Effective Goal Setting
Support student ownership and motivation through clear, measurable goals. Goal setting helps students develop both a long-term vision and short-term milestones—building confidence and a sense of achievement as they make progress.
Make Learning Fun, Visual, and Rewarding
Pathways Learning’s built-in game-like features transform everyday learning into an engaging and motivational experience. With digital rewards, personalized avatars, and classroom-friendly games, students stay motivated and excited to learn—every single day.
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Gamification of Learning
By incorporating game design into the learning experience, Pathways Learning helps students stay actively engaged in content that’s both educational and enjoyable—fueling a love for learning.
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Earn Digital Coins
Students earn digital coins by answering questions correctly, mastering concepts, and meeting learning goals. Teachers can further boost motivation by awarding bonus coins for outstanding effort and growth.
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Customizable Rewards
Create your own custom rewards—from homework passes to classroom privileges—to drive positive behavior and reinforce academic milestones in a fun, student-centered way.
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Games & Personalization
Students can redeem their coins for interactive games and fun virtual swag. This sense of accomplishment and choice boosts intrinsic motivation while allowing students to personalize their learning journey.
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Flexible Student Access Settings
You control when the fun happens. Customize student access settings to ensure that gamified features align with your classroom routines and instructional goals.
Fuel Motivation Through Friendly Competition
Inspire students to push their limits and stay engaged by introducing healthy, game-like competition. Pathways Learning’s leaderboard and contest features foster intrinsic motivation, teamwork, and school spirit—turning effort into excitement.
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Student Rankings
Students love seeing their names rise to the top! Real-time leaderboards give them a visible, rewarding way to track their progress and celebrate their achievements.
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Team Rankings
Make it a group effort! Students can team up to compete against other classrooms, schools, or even districts—earning bragging rights and building camaraderie.
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Competitions & Contests
Design custom competitions that fit your classroom goals. Track progress in real time, celebrate top performers, and simply reset the leaderboard to kick off a new challenge anytime.
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Customizable Leaderboard Settings
Pathways Learning gives you the flexibility to tailor the leaderboard experience. Encourage all learners to participate without discouraging those still building confidence—so every student stays inspired to improve.
Promote Positive Behavior and a Strong Classroom Culture
Pathways Learning’s built-in behavior tool helps you reinforce positive habits, keep students on task, and foster a respectful, engaged classroom environment—all with minimal effort and powerful impact.
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Quick Behavior Logging
Easily log behaviors for an individual student or the entire class with just a few clicks—keeping classroom management simple and consistent.
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Monitor Trends with Behavior Dashboards
Track class-wide and individual behavior trends over time. Use data-driven insights to guide timely interventions, recognize positive patterns, and support behavior growth.
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Student Self-Monitoring
Empower students to take ownership of their actions by providing access to their personal behavior report—promoting reflection, responsibility, and self-improvement.
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Engage Parents in Behavior Growth
Strengthen the home–school connection by giving parents visibility into their child’s classroom behavior—encouraging support, recognition, and positive reinforcement at home.
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Customizable Behavior Tracking
Align behavior tracking with your classroom or school-wide values. Customize behaviors to reflect what matters most in creating a positive, supportive learning culture.
Stay Connected Anytime, Anywhere
Pathways Learning provides a simple, safe, and effective way for teachers to collaborate and communicate with students—keeping learning and engagement alive 24/7.
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Interactive Class Wall
Foster classroom community with a dedicated Class Wall where teachers can post updates, inspire discussions, and encourage student expression through free writing and open dialogue. Moderate conversations and keep the classroom voice active—anytime, anywhere.
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Smart Messaging Tools
Stay organized and informed with Smart Messages that remind you of tasks needing attention and automatically nudge students who are falling behind. Quickly send classroom announcements and updates to students—and even parents—with ease.
Engage Parents. Empower Students.
Research shows that parent engagement can boost student achievement by up to 84%. Pathways Learning makes it easy for families to stay connected, informed, and actively involved in their child’s learning journey.
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Free Parent Portal
With just one click, link a parent email to a student account and give families access to their own secure portal—a live window into their child’s progress and performance.
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Smart Messaging & Reminders
Parents receive automated reminders for upcoming or overdue assignments and can get instant updates from teachers—ensuring consistent communication and support.
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Real-Time Data & Progress Insights
Parents can view their child’s learning progress anytime, anywhere. Intuitive dashboards display real-time data and actionable insights, empowering families to guide and encourage their learners toward mastery.
See how Pathways Learning delivers automatic scaffolding—ranging from light support to intensive intervention—based on each student’s needs. Click the tabs below to explore real examples that show how scaffolding helps bridge learning gaps and guide students toward mastery at every level.
This student has mastered two concepts in Unit 1, is actively practicing the final concept, and has five concepts awaiting a mastery check. Notably, none of the concepts required scaffolding—indicating that the student is demonstrating strong proficiency across the entire unit. ScootPad continues to monitor progress and will prompt mastery checks to confirm deep understanding before advancing.
This student has mastered two concepts in Unit 1, has five concepts pending a mastery check, and one concept flagged for teacher intervention. Initially, the student struggled with concept C664, which triggered scaffolding to two prerequisite concepts. The student successfully mastered C663, while C637 required teacher intervention. After targeted support and re-practice, the student demonstrated proficiency in C664—highlighting how scaffolding and personalized learning help close gaps and build confidence.
This student has mastered two concepts in Unit 2 and has six additional concepts awaiting a mastery check. Previously, the student struggled with four concepts and was scaffolded to learn the necessary prerequisites. For three of these, the student successfully mastered the foundational concepts independently within ScootPad. The final scaffolded concept, C642, required teacher intervention—but with support, the student went on to demonstrate mastery. This progression highlights the power of targeted scaffolding combined with just-in-time teacher guidance.
This student has mastered four concepts in Unit 1, is actively working on the final concept, and has three concepts flagged for teacher intervention. A closer look at concept C664 reveals significant learning gaps: ScootPad has scaffolded down five levels of prerequisite skills, branching into multiple related concepts. These deep, multi-layered gaps are typically challenging for teachers to detect and reteach. ScootPad automatically identified these gaps and delivered targeted Learning Bites to support the student in building the necessary foundational knowledge. Going forward, ScootPad will continue to reinforce understanding through spaced practice and spiral review—ensuring the student not only revisits key concepts but also achieves lasting mastery at grade level.
