August 2026: Your Path to a Strong School Year

Table of Contents

• NEW: The Elevated Student Experience is Here
• NEW: Ability to Archive Classrooms
• NEW: Ability to Hide Math or ELA Goals for Students
• NEW: Fact Fluency Progress No Longer Part of the Math Goal
• NEW: Report for Administrators: Mastery Grid
• Teacher Awards are Back
• Need help with Pathways Learning?

NEW: The Elevated Student Experience is Here

The updated student experience features a refreshed, modern interface designed for easier navigation and stronger integration with Pathways Learning Studio, creating a more seamless learning environment. Students can quickly view assignments and due dates from a dedicated Assignments page, access personalized adaptive learning through the Daily Practice page for Math, ELA, spelling, reading, and math fact fluency, track their progress toward teacher-set weekly goals, and review recently completed work through an integrated Recent Activity stream. Check out the short video below.

NEW: Ability to Archive Classrooms

If your district uses Clever or ClassLink, you may find your dashboard cluttered with unused classrooms. Since a single Pathways Learning classroom can accommodate all content for a specific group of students, you can easily clean up your view by archiving unnecessary ones. To do this, click the three dots on a classroom card and select "Archive Classroom." The classroom will be hidden from your main view, but you can restore it at any time by selecting the "Archived Classrooms" link and clicking "Restore."

NEW: Ability to Hide Math or ELA Goals for Students

For those who teach only one subject, you can now streamline your students' dashboards. If you teach exclusively Math or ELA, navigate to your class settings and disable adaptive practice for the subject you do not teach. This action ensures students see only the goals relevant to your specific curriculum.

The teacher has disabled ELA. Note: Disabling adaptive practice is the only way the goal will be hidden.

The students in the class don't have an ELA path and the only goal is Math.

NEW: Fact Fluency Progress No Longer Part of the Math Goal

We heard your feedback! While practicing math facts remains a vital part of student growth, we recognize that students were reaching their weekly math goals without focusing on their core assignments. To address this, we have updated the Learning module: students can continue to practice math facts and earn coins, but this activity will no longer count toward their weekly math goals. This change ensures that students can stay focused on mastering their assigned curriculum.

The student completed one fact fluency session but the goal remains unaccomplished.

NEW: Report for Administrators: Mastery Grid

The Mastery Grid is an invaluable tool for teachers, providing a comprehensive view of student progress, conceptual trends, intervention needs, and proficiency levels—all in one location. We are excited to announce that this report is now available to administrators, allowing them to monitor data across classrooms and schools. To access it, navigate to the Insights menu, open the Report Library, and select Mastery Grid. The report defaults to the first path in the dropdown menu, but administrators can utilize various filters to customize their view.

Teacher Awards are Back

We are thrilled to announce that our Teacher Awards are back for the 26-27 school year! After a successful debut last year, we are excited to recognize your hard work once again—keep an eye out in November, as you might be our next award recipient. As a reminder, here are the official categories and awards:

Category #1: Standards Mastery

This category highlights teachers who go above and beyond with Learning Paths and Content (Math, ELA, Learning Bites, Learning Checks, Writing, Spelling).

• Bite-Sized Brilliance - You are the master of all things Learning Bites.
  
• Word Wizard - You are a Spelling aficionado!
• Path Pioneer - You enjoy the art of Learning Path customization!
• Writing Wonder - You use Writing as a motivational tool!
• Quiz Master - You navigate Learning Checks as an integral part of the learning journey!

Category #2: Student Engagement

This category highlights teachers who encourage students to achieve their goals and are rockstars with the class wall or rewards!

• Habit Hero - Your goal is helping students achieve their goal and it shows!
• Motivation Maestro - Your rewards rock!

Category #3: Targeted Intervention

This category highlights teachers who use creative assignments and paths to target specific standards for intervention when their students need it the most.

• Tier Titan - Your specialty is creating short paths targeting IEPs and small groups.
• Intervention Ace - Your assignments are almost daily and are super targeted for the class, small groups or individuals.

Need help with Pathways Learning?

When you need help, we want you to get assistance as soon as possible. 

• Click the question mark in the upper right hand corner and send us a message from within your admin or teacher account. 
• Send us an email directly to support-pathways@learningexplorer.com.
• Schedule a 10-minute support call with us!  Book it here.

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