This document summarizes Naviance Summer Institute 2014 in Palm Springs, California. The objectives of the institute were to engage students, staff, parents and the community with Naviance and increase usage of Naviance tools. It describes how a high school engaged these groups by having students create resumes and 4-year plans in Naviance, training staff, sending newsletters to parents, and promoting Naviance at community events. Counselors and a Naviance committee worked to increase focus group discussions and student usage in the computer lab and college/career center. The school saw successes in engagement but aims to improve student sign-in and teacher/parent usage of the platform.

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

4. 4
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

7. 7
Naviance Tools
• Courses
- 4 year plan (updated/created)
• Colleges
- SuperMatch
- Colleges I’m Thinking About
- Colleges I’m Applying to
- Scholarship Lists

8. 8
Naviance Tools
• Careers
- Career Interest Profiler
- Personality Type
• About Me
- Goals
- Resume
- Profile
• My Planner
- Surveys completed

9. 9
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

19. 19
Engagement Report

20. 20
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

22. 22
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!