This document outlines an agenda for a presentation on using the Naviance College and Career Readiness (CCR) curriculum to better prepare high school students for life after graduation. The presentation discusses how the CCR curriculum can help engage students and improve college and career readiness through interactive lessons. It also covers defining goals for curriculum implementation, a group activity to develop a scope and sequence, and provides a sample lesson from the CCR curriculum. The presentation aims to demonstrate how schools can use Naviance's resources to accomplish goals like increasing the percentage of students applying to 4-year colleges.

1. Enhancing Programming Through
The Naviance CCR Curriculum
Krystal Ferguson
Consultant

2. Agenda
- Introduction
- College & Career Readiness
(CCR) Curriculum: How Can It
Help?
- Tips for Maximizing Curriculum
Implementation
- Defining Goals
- Group Activity: Developing a
Scope & Sequence
- Sample Lesson from CCR
Curriculum

3. Introduction
Are students leaving high
school college & career ready?

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Source: NCES (April 2010). First Look: Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2008; Graduation
Rates, 2002 and 2005 Cohorts; and Financial Statistics Fiscal Year 2008.
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010152rev.pdf
6 - Year Completion Rates for Fall 2002 Cohort at All 4-Year
Institutions
Introduction

5. Introduction
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3 -Year Completion Rates for Fall 2005 Cohort at Public 2-Year Institutions
Source: NCES (April 2010). First Look: Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2008; Graduation Rates, 2002
and 2005 Cohorts; and Financial Statistics Fiscal Year 2008. http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010152rev.pdf

6. Introduction
Are students engaged?

7. Introduction
Busteed, B (2013). The School Cliff: Student Engagement Drops with Each School Year. Retrieved from
http://thegallupblog.gallup.com/2013/01/the-school-cliff-student-engagement.html

8. College & Career Readiness
Curriculum
How can we engage students?
How can we better prepare students for life after high school?
What do students want from their schools?

9. College & Career Readiness
Curriculum
How Can The Naviance CCR Curriculum Design Program Help?
- Engaging & interactive lessons for grades 6 – 12 to drastically improve
student engagement and your students’ college & career preparedness
- Over 170 lessons that correspond with activities in Family Connection and
cover critical concepts and skills in academic, college and career planning;
financial literacy; and personal/social development
- Advisory time with a Naviance Consultant to:
- Development of a custom scope and sequence of lessons
- Tailor the lessons to your school’s needs & goals
- Incorporate the lessons into Family Connection
- AND MUCH MORE

10. Defining Goals
What are your short term & long term
goals for implementing Naviance?

11. Defining Goals
Examples:
Increase the percentage of students applying to 4 year
colleges
Decrease the unemployment rate of high school graduates
regardless of Post-Secondary Education outcome

12. Group Activity
Discuss with your group:
- Two ways you can use Naviance to
accomplish the assigned goal with
your assigned grade level
- Who would you want to involve at the
campus level (i.e. counselor, English
teacher, etc)?
- How would you present the task to
students? How would you make the
task interesting/fun to a student?
- What are some of the challenges you
may encounter?

13. Group Activity
Discuss with your group:
- Two ways you can use Naviance to
accomplish the assigned goal with
your assigned grade level
- Who would you want to involve at the
campus level (i.e. counselor, English
teacher, etc)?
- How would you present the task to
students? How would you make the
task interesting/fun to a student?
- What are some of the challenges you
may encounter?

14. Questions?
Krystal Ferguson
Consultant

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