Center for Learner Pathway Innovations – Digital Promise

Center for Learner Pathway Innovations

Supporting education ecosystems in creating innovative, flexible, and adaptable pathways

The Center for Learner Pathway Innovations (CLPI) is a field catalyst supporting education ecosystems in transforming college and career pathways.

We partner with K-12 school systems, postsecondary institutions, industry, and communities to co-create innovative, Unbounded Pathways that enable the conditions and opportunities for learners to build durable skills, earn credentials of value, exercise agency, and thrive.

An image of student Seth Walker and his peers studying for their cybersecurity class at Lincoln High School in Talladega, AL.Today’s college and career pathways are often not designed to support all learners in preparing for an evolving workforce. System boundaries and one-size-fits-all pathway models serve a narrow group of learners, ultimately creating barriers to access and progression such as:

  • Low Visibility: Learners are unable to see where different pathways lead or what steps come next.
  • Silos and Boundaries: Progress is frequently lost when learners move between schools or systems.
  • Forced Choices: Learners navigating life circumstances often have to choose short-term survival over long-term growth.
  • The Value Gap: With the rapid rise of AI and changing job markets, many learners question if traditional degrees alone deliver real value.
  • Recognition Gaps: Learners gain skills and experiences in many contexts, but systems fail to recognize or credit that learning.
  • Uncertain Outcomes: Learners participate in work-based learning but do not benefit from connections to real job opportunities.

Unbounded Pathways: Aligning Today’s Pathways to Tomorrow’s Jobs

We design Unbounded Pathways—flexible and adaptive learning opportunities that enable learners to gain durable skills and earn credentials of value as they navigate school, work, and life.

Unbounded Pathways are:
Unbounded Pathways create ecosystem conditions that shape learners’ access, participation, and ability to thrive, especially for learners from historically and systematically excluded communities.
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Let’s Break Boundaries

We envision a world where learning is continuous and deepens with each experience—across connected and flexible pathways that enable learners to develop durable skills, competencies, and credentials of value at every stage of life.

We galvanize education ecosystems to break the boundaries that impede learners’ success by creating pathway innovations that prepare all learners to achieve agency, well-being, and economic mobility in an ever-changing world.

We are field catalysts collaborating with K-12, postsecondary, industry and community leaders to create pathways that enable every learner to achieve success.

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