Creative Beginnings

1. NAVIANCE SUMMER INSTITUTE 2014
PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA

2. 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

10. 10
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!