NAVIANCE SUMMER INSTITUTE 2014 PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA

NAVIANCE SUMMER INSTITUTE 2014 | PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA

Creative Beginnings: Making Naviance apart of the school

culture

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Objectives

•  Engaging Stakeholders: - Students (9-12th grade) - Staff - Parents - Community

•  Increasing student usage - Naviance committee - Focus groups

•  Increasing use of Naviance tools •  Discuss successes and improvement needs

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Demographics of MHS

Hispanic/La*no  

American  Indian  

Asian  

African  American  

White  

Pacific  Islander  

Two  or  More  

0.00%  5.00%  

10.00%  15.00%  20.00%  25.00%  30.00%  35.00%  40.00%  45.00%  

Economically  Disadvantaged   At  Risk  

ESL    

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Engaging students

•  Meeting in computer lab (October) - 9th World Geography & Human Geography - 10th World History - 11th US History - 12th English 4

•  8th grade - PBMF classes - AVID classes

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Engaging students

•  Survey for each grade level

•  Start a resume in 9th grade, update yearly

•  Add 1-2 colleges of interest

•  Update 4-year plan annually

•  Sign up for weekly college visits

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Naviance Tools

•  Courses - 4 year plan (updated/created)

•  Colleges

- SuperMatch - Colleges I’m Thinking About - Colleges I’m Applying to - Scholarship Lists

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Naviance Tools

•  Careers - Career Interest Profiler - Personality Type

•  About Me - Goals - Resume - Profile

•  My Planner - Surveys completed

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Engaging Staff

•  Introduction at professional development (August)

•  Session on program overview and how it can

benefit students (September)

•  CTE staff training

•  Focus group - very familiar with all aspects

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Engaging Parents

•  Parent meetings (grade level)

•  Parent received email communication (monthly newsletter) - Activated registration codes - Parent received viewing rights

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Engaging the Community

•  Share at different functions - Youth Round Table Meeting - Attendance Liaison Group - Report Card pick up (twice a year) - CTE Showcase

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Naviance Committee

•  Kushana Collier, College & Career Counselor

•  Chenda Moore, District Lead Counselor

•  Alfredia Foster, MHS Lead Counselor

•  Jamie McRae, 9th grade Counselor

•  Valerie Hoffpauir, AVID Teacher

•  Aaron Swaty, AVID/College Transition Teacher

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Focus Groups @ MHS

•  Courses - AVID - College Transition - CTE – BIMM, Computer Programming and Audio/Visual Production

•  How often? - 3 times/week via AVID and College Transition

•  A Naviance Committee counselor will visit AVID/College Transition every Friday to answer student questions or present an important topic.

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Other Stakeholders

•  High School Administrators

•  Junior High Teachers (AVID and PBMF)

•  Junior High Counselors

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College and Career Center

•  Every student who enters the center will have to log into their Naviance account and update something.

•  The College & Career Counselor will be able to pull a report of usage.

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Counselors

•  Counselors will encourage students to log into their Naviance account to search for college information.

•  Each counselor has a laptop so students can log in when in her office.

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Roadtrip Nation

•  Brings the “why” or relevance for continuing with

education

•  Hundreds of video interviews with thought-

provoking questions

•  Focus Group discussions

•  Available through Family Connections under

“Careers” tab

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What else?

•  ALL surveys will be completed via Naviance - Student Council - Grade level surveys - Graduation surveys (cannot pick up cap/gown until student complete)

•  College Wednesday’s

•  Scholarship information

•  Important dates

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Engagement Report

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Plans for 2014- 15

•  Junior High Administrators

•  Taking Naviance to 6th Grade

•  AVID (6th and 7th grade)

•  Teen Leadership (7th grade)

•  Career Exploration (7th grade)

•  PBMF (8th grade)

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eDocs

•  Request transcripts (via Registrar)

•  Upload recommendation letters - Provide a recommendation letter session for interested teachers.

•  Upload school profile

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eDocs Reports

Common  App  School  Report  

8%  

Common  App  Teacher  Eval  9%  

Ini*al  Transcript  10%  

LePer  of  Recommenda*on  

11%  

Midyear  Transcript  1%  

School  Profile  9%  

       

WriPen  Evalua*on  2%  

Grand  Total  50%  

Other  61%  

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New/Transfer Students

•  College and Career Counselor meet with students who do not have a Naviance account.

- One day every three weeks

- Reports can be run to determine which

students do not have an account

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Successes and Improvement Needs

•  Successes - Increase student usage - Increase teacher knowledge of program - Increase administrative awareness

•  Improvement Needs - Student sign in - Teacher usage - Parent usage - eDocs - Set grade level parameters

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Video

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Administrative support is KEY!