This summary is a digest of key findings from "Implementing Guided Pathways: Early Insights From the AACC Pathways Colleges," a report based on Community College Research Center's (CCRC's) research on the 30 colleges involved in the American Association of Community Colleges' (AACC) Pathways Project. The research presented in this report focused on how the AACC Pathways colleges were designing, planning, and beginning to implement guided pathways reforms during their first year of work on the project, which started in late 2015. AACC chose these colleges to participate in the project because they had laid the groundwork for guided pathways reforms by building organizational cultures open to change. Only a handful had begun implementing guided pathways before joining the project. The expectation is that participating colleges will redesign their programs and support services for all incoming students by fall 2018 according to the guided pathways model adopted by AACC based on CCRC's research. To help accomplish this, the colleges are sending planning teams to a series of six institutes run by AACC and other national organizations, each on a different aspect of the guided pathways approach. Participating colleges are also receiving coaching from college practitioners who have experience with guided pathways reforms in their own institutions. The authors conducted telephone interviews with project leaders from all 30 colleges, and carried out in-depth two-day site visits at six of the colleges. The resulting report examines how colleges are approaching guided pathways, and it provides insight into how to go about planning and implementing such reforms. This executive summary highlights key insights on how the AACC Pathways colleges are approaching guided pathways reforms, how they are managing the substantial changes involved, and what they are learning in the process. [For the full report, "Implementing Guided Pathways: Early Insights from the AACC Pathways Colleges," see ED574054.]