Aspiration into Action: Creating a College Going Culture Presented by Chris Duzenbery & Nate Davis Naviance Summer Institute July 2015

2. Aspiration into Action
Creating a College Going Culture
Chris Duzenbery – Director of College
and Career Readiness
Nate Davis – Assistant Superintendent
July 8, 2015

3. 1st Year District Implementation
MSD of Decatur Township Schools
Indianapolis, IN

4. “Aspiration into Action” Road Map
District-wide
Approach
Defining
Purpose &
Vision
Defining
Success
How
Engagement
What

5. District-wide
Approach

6. District Approach
Align and articulate the high School and middle
school College and Career Readiness programs
Implemented Naviance in grades 7 - 12
1 - middle school
2 - high schools
(7 – 8)
(9 – 12)

7. Defining
Purpose & Vision

8. Defining Purpose- Start with the "WHY"

9. The “WHY”
35% of graduates
First Generation
College Goers
District 66%
Free/Reduced
lunch
56% of 2013
graduates enrolled
in college
Only on 54% of
2014 graduates
took SAT
We needed a
cohesive 7-12 one
stop shop for
CCR

10. Connecting Naviance to our CCR Vision
College and Career Readiness Vision:
To prepare our students to discover and explore
their interests and to equip them with the
knowledge, skills, dispositions and attitudes
necessary to successfully complete post-secondary
training, resulting in a career path of their choice.

11. Defining Success

12. Implementation Goals
Deliberate very slow roll out
The main implementation goal for 2014-15:
100% of all teachers and students will log in to
Naviance at least 1 time during the school year

13. How

14. Naviance Acquisition and Implementation
1. Preview of Naviance presented to High
School/Middle School Admin wFebruary 2014
2. Purchase of Naviance wFebruary 2014
3. Implementation Planning wMarch 2014

15. Naviance Acquisition and Implementation
4. 16 hours of Webex training for Core Planning
Team wApril –June 2014
5. Configuration of School sites by District Site
Manager wJune – August 2014
6. Professional Development for teachers wAugust
2014, February 2015 (ongoing throughout school
year), July 2015

16. Who

17. Naviance Core Planning Team
District level
wAssistant
Superintendent
wChief Academic
Officer
wDirector of College
and Career
Readiness
wProject Support
Specialist
Building Level
wMiddle School
Guidance
Counselors
wHigh School
Guidance
Counselors
wHigh School
Media Specialist
Technology
wChief Information
Officer
wSupervisor of
Technology
Operations
wStudent Information
System Specialist

18. What

19. Suggested Best Practices
• a person assigned as the district site manager
(oversees district implementation)
• a time in the daily school schedule for
implementation (advisory class)
• system configured for nightly upload of
student/parent data files

20. Professional development
1) Whole staff introduction to Naviance
2) Initial training for teachers in each Small
Learning Community
§ Login
§ Exploring teacher access
§ Reviewing student access/Family Connection
§ Previewed use of Prep Me

21. 3) Curriculum implementation
§ viewing curriculum
§ accessing curriculum
§ assigning curriculum to
a group
§ expectations for implementation
(2nd semester implement at least
3 of 5 selected lessons)

22. Lunch & Learn
Teachers come to media center
during their lunch period
§ Curriculum implementation
§ Teacher recommendations
§ Scholarship search
§ College search
§ Transcript requests

23. Naviance Boot Camp
8 Custom webex course created for teachers
8 Onsite training with consultant
8 Use train the trainer model to support other
teachers
Boot
Camp
Summer Professional
Development
§ 1 teacher from each grade level in
each SLC at the middle school and
both high schools
§ Guidance counselors

24. Engagement

25. Student Engagement
§ Login scheme – same as the login to the
computer network
§ Goal to have all students logged in at least 1 time
by Winter break
§ Encouraged advisory teachers to have students
explore the site and get used to logging in
1st semester focus
seniors college search
college applications
strengths explorer
career interest inventory

26. Student Engagement
2nd semester focus
all students - curriculum implementation
Juniors late spring
§ College search/match
§ Teacher recommendations
§ Transcript requests
§ Application tracking

27. Data Tracking
§ Monthly usage reports – students / parents
§ Send reports to administrators and teachers
§ Quarterly Engagement Report from consultant

28. First Year Implementation Outcomes
Total district student logins = 17, 452
Middle School = 4,739 avg 4.85 per student
High School = 12,713 avg 6.89 per student

29. Turn Your Aspirations into Action

30. Contact Information:
Chris Duzenbery
Director of College and Career Readiness
MSD of Decatur Township Schools
cduzenbery@msddecatur.k12.in.us
Nate Davis
Assistant Superintendent
MSD of Decatur Township Schools
nsdavis@msddecatur.k12.in.us

31. Questions?