1. A Collaborative Approach:
Integrating Naviance at
Both Middle and High
School
Developing College and
Career Readiness Culture

2. Agenda
• College and Career Readiness
• Naviance is a keystone of
collaboration
• Success collaboration –Student
engagement in academic rigor
• Structure CCR District
• CCR = Counselor as lead educators
• Collaboration of WWS MS/HS
• Questions 2

3. Setting CCR Culture
Collaboration through Naviance
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4. Why Naviance now?
• The difference between being college eligible and
college ready
• Shifting expectations of students, parents, educators
• Expansion of AP, Dual Credit, Adoption of Common
Core
• Increased rigor across all grades
• Focus on gearing more students to be successful in
rigor
• Jobs that don’t require a bachelor’s degree require the
same math and reading skills for success
• Programs that empower students and families to plan
and prepare for post-secondary success.
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5. Two thought leaders of CCR:
David Conley
Kent Pekel
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6. What is College and Career
Readiness?
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7. 7

8. What do Students Need to Know to be College Ready?
Conley’s Four Key Dimensions of College Readiness
8
Key
Cognitive
Strategies
Key Content
Knowledge
Academic
Behaviors
Contextual Skills
and Awareness

9. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity,
and the Hidden Power of Character
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Character Hypothesis
Supports intentional
focus on non cognitive
skills is linked to
academic performance:
•Persistence
•Self-Control
•Curiosity
•Conscientiousness
•Grit
•Self-Confidence
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10. Intelligence is not fixed
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11. The best predictor of completing college?
Rigor
Sixty-two percent of college students polled
said knowing what they know now, they would
have taken more challenging courses in high
school
Source: Alliance for Excellent Education 11

12. 12
graduate from high school
enter college
return to college for their sophomore year
earn a bachelor’s degree within six years
Source: The National Center for Higher Education Management Systems Progress &
Completion data
The Target: Success of completion
For every 100 ninth-gradersFor every 100 ninth-graders
6969
4242
2828
2020

13. When is a district ready to
adopt Naviance as a
solution?

14. Five Components of College Readiness
in a School District
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15. Student & Family Centered:
CR Component 5
• Success Planning
• Career Planning
• Course Planning
• College Planning
Provides a stronger link
between Middle and
High Schools
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16. Examples of Emerging Westfield CR Initiatives
Tied to Key Components of Naviance
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17. Effective Practice: Eight Components of College and Career
Readiness Counseling should be applied in elementary,
middle and high schools
Component Elementary Middle High
College Aspirations * * *
Academic Planning for College and Career
Readiness
* * *
Enrichment and Extracurricular
Engagement
* * *
College and Career Exploration and
Selection Processes
* * *
College and Career Assessments * * *
College Affordability Planning * * *
College and Career Admission Processes *
Transition from High School to College
Enrollment
*
Source: National Office for School Counselor Advocacy, (NOSCA)
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18. Foundations of College and Career
Readiness Counseling
1. Advocating for all students in
postsecondary education
pathways
2. Academic advising and
planning aligned to College
and Career Readiness
3. Development of college and
career base modeled from a
national effective practice
standards – NOSCA, NACAC,
ASCA
4. Grade level developmental
college and career education
1. Advocating for all students in
postsecondary education
pathways
2. Academic advising and
planning aligned to College
and Career Readiness
3. Development of college and
career base modeled from a
national effective practice
standards – NOSCA, NACAC,
ASCA
4. Grade level developmental
college and career education
5. Ongoing
professional
development
6. Leader of
counseling
education for key
constituencies/stake
holders:
1. Students, parents,
teachers, building
administration,
middle school
5. Ongoing
professional
development
6. Leader of
counseling
education for key
constituencies/stake
holders:
1. Students, parents,
teachers, building
administration,
middle school 18

19. Academic
advising and
planning
aligned to
College and
Career
Readiness
Developmental
college and
career
education
model by
grade level
Ongoing
professional
development
Identify as a lead
for ongoing
dialogue around
College and Career
ReadinessUnderstand
and act upon
CCR
assessment
and outcomes
data
Leader of
counseling
education for
key
constituencies
Development
of college and
career base
modeled from
a national
effective
practice
standards –
NOSCA,
NACAC,
ASCA
Advocating for
all students in
postsecondary
education
pathways
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20. Markers of CCR Counseling Foundation
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21. Markers of CCR Counseling Foundation
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22. Basis for WWS Collaborative Naviance
Approach
• CCR for all students
• Counselors as Educators
• District support for grass root movement
• Establishment of Champion Model
– MS, HS, Technology are Project leads
• Collaboration to glean intel and investigation
• Structure of project management
• Identified our weaknesses and challenge
areas in pre - launch
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23. 23
Month Milestone Lead
December Confirm technical compatibility
Decision point: Grade Level Implementation
Decision point: Consulting and PD plan
TSG Champion
Naviance Champions
Naviance Champions
January Import data from PowerSchool to Naviance
Test validity of data
TSG Champion
TSG Champion
February Public Naviance PD Intro Course: Web-based
Private Naviance PD Course: Administration Web-based
Customize Naviance for WHS – with Consultant
Customize Naviance for WMS – with Consultant
Develop Naviance Value Proposition and Messaging
All
Naviance Champions
HS Champion & assist
MS Champion & assist
PR Champion & assist
March Naviance Launch announced PR Champion
April On-site Naviance PD Courses: Success Planning & Course Planning Naviance Champions
May Roll-out:
Grade 7
Career Functions
College Planning
Messaging to families – What to do
Roll-out:
Grade 11
Career Functions
College Planning
Messaging to families – What to do
MS Champion
HS Champion
TSG Champion
PR Champion
Support – HS and MS Champions
June Students Create Profiles Students Create Profiles
July Finalized Naviance integration roll-out
MS Champion
HS Champion
PR Champion
TSG Champion
Naviance – Proposed Milestone Progression – Six month – Project direction

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Implementation Timeline
Grade 7
Welcome Page
Logo
Powerpoint for Parents
Build Resource List
Powerpoint for Parents
Build Resource List
Build Resource List
Summer Survey
Summer Survey WMS Blast Email reminding
them of survey, Naviance,
etc.
Powerpoint at WMS Open
House and Meet the
Teacher Night
Learning Styles Inventory
Lesson
Cluster Finder Lesson
My Planner/Goals
Learning Styles Inventory
Lesson
Cluster Finder Lesson
My Planner/Goals
Grade 8
Welcome Page
Logo
Powerpoint for Parents
Build Resource List
Powerpoint for Parents
Build Resource List
Build Resource List
Summer Survey
WHS-Assign summer survey
and academic plan
Summer Survey
WMS Blast Email reminding
them of survey, Naviance,
etc.
Powerpoint at WMS Open
House and Meet the
Teacher Night
Career Key Lesson
My Planner/Goals
Career Key Lesson
My Planner/Goals
Grade 9
WHS-Upload Courses WHS-Naviance Overview to
select teachers and
Department Chairs.
WHS-Email Parents Into to
Parent and Student sites of
Family Connection/
Naviance overview to entire
staff (parent presentation
and letters of rec)/ Develop
Summer Survey
WHS-Assign summer survey
and academic plan
WHS-Blast email reminder to
parents for those not yet
completed assignments.
WHS-Blast email reminder to
parents for those not yet
completed assignments.
Grade 10
WHS-Upload Courses WHS-Email Parents Into to
Parent and Student sites of
Family Connection/ Develop
Summer Survey
WHS-Assign summer survey
and academic plan
WHS-Blast email reminder to
parents for those not yet
completed assignments.
WHS-Blast email reminder to
parents for those not yet
completed assignments.
Grade 11
WHS-Upload Courses/Prep
Teachers for classroom
guidance/Prep Presentation
for Parents and Students
/Schedule an E-Doc
Training.
WHS-Family Connection
Student Sites log on/Into
completed in Classroom
Guidance. Complete
Academic Plan.
WHS-Email Parents Into to
Parent and Student sites of
Family Connection/ Develop
Summer Survey
WHS-Assign summer survey
and 5 College Choices
WHS-Blast email reminder to
parents for those not yet
completed assignments.
WHS-Blast email reminder to
parents for those not yet
completed assignments.
Grade 12
WHS-Upload Courses WHS-Blast email reminder to
parents for those not yet
completed assignments.
WHS-Blast email reminder to
parents for those not yet
completed assignments/
Naviance Review in Sr.
Class Meeting and Small
Groups (E-Docs)
WHS-Naviance used in
Individual Sr. Meetings.

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Naviance Night for Parents

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27. 27

28. Collaboration between WMS/WHS
• The messaging of Naviance...why we need it,
how it can help
• Creating and implementing the time line
• Naviance Night...promoting the program to
parents
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29. Proof that It’s Working
• Student Usage and data collection
• Parent Registrations
• Teachers using in year one in the
classroom
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30. Future Collaboration Goals
• Building Naviance as a more
prominent component of College and
Career Readiness
• Taking Naviance to the teachers and
training them to effectively use the
tools
• Taking Naviance to the classroom and
incorporating lessons based on CCR
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31. Suggestions for Strong
Collaboration
• Preach the same message...everyone
from Central Office/High
School/Middle School
• Have an in-depth understanding of
what/how the other level uses
Naviance and be able to explain to
parents and students how it carries
forward or helps now.
• Meet regularly to explore and share
ideas 31

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33. A Collaborative Approach: Integrating Naviance at Both Middle and
High School
Developing College and Career Readiness Culture
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34. A Collaborative Approach: Integrating Naviance at Both
Middle and High School
Developing College and Career Readiness Culture
Dan Doherty, Director, High School Counseling
dohertyd@wws.k12.in.us
Carroll Easterday, Director, College and Career
Readiness
easterdayc@wws.k12.in.us
Craig Spinner, Counselor, Middle School
spinnerc@wws.k12.in.us
Westfield Washington Schools
www.wws.k12.in.us

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