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Naviance for BOTH Elementary and High School helps ensure equal exposure to college knowledge and career pathways for all students. Help students understand who they are, discover unique paths, and develop the skills to be successful in school and beyond. Specifically, students will gain competency in the areas of:
Self Discovery
College Knowledge
Career Awareness
Social & Emotional Skills
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Naviance – Middle school
“Naviance for Elementary School opens doors for teachers to have conversations with students about their futures. It also helps
students understand why school is important. It’s hard for kids at this age to think about their future. Naviance for Elementary opens up doors for more conversations than they’ve ever had before.”
—Jennifer Quintana, Elementary School Counselor, Coronado Hills
Elementary School
ADVISORY & GUIDANCE
¡ Advisory and Guidance are designed to help students make connections with others and within themselves. They are making a big place smaller for our students, while helping students bolster their self-‐confidence and set a direction for their futures. Advisory Teams and Guidance meet at least once a week to focus on individual student needs, dreams and plans. During these sessions, students explore three primary questions:
¡ Who am I? ¡ Where am I going? ¡ How will I get there?
NAVIANCE
¡ Naviance is a software tool for career planning that helps students achieve three primary goals:
¡ Get to know themselves. Students inventory their interests, strengths, talents and values.
¡ Explore possibilities. Students research careers, participate in job shadowing and internships, and even take part in service learning.
¡ Take action. Students set goals, create a plan and monitor their progress so they know where they are going and how to get there.
BENEFITS
¡ Playbook, a software program created by CPS, gives students personalized “plays” to complete so that they stay on track with all of their learning objectives.
¡ It’s all online, and students can access it
from anywhere — through school laptops, their own personal tablet, even their smartphone. Playbook accesses eight student data systems to create customized “plays” for each student related to college and career readiness, and academic needs.
¡ Through one single sign on app, students have access to the tools that address every aspect of their learning experience:
PLAYBOOK CONTENTS
¡ Aimsweb (assessment skills for individualized learning)
¡ ALEKS (math learning system for grades 3-‐12)
¡ Apex (digital curriculum and content) ¡ Blackboard (classroom pages) ¡ Dashboard (assessment) ¡ EasyTech (tech skill training for
students) ¡ Google Apps for Education (email,
calendars, document storage and shared documents)
¡ Naviance (strength and learning style assessments, career exploration and college preparedness activities)
¡ PowerSchool (attendance management and progress reporting)
BENEFITS
¡ Everything is tailored to the individual, right down to the avatar that students select to help guide them through the program. Playbook is constantly analyzing information from ALL of these programs and creating My Playbook — the “plays” that will help students improve their performance.
BENEFITS
¡ Academic Readiness — Ready to succeed in their first year at a technical college, community college or university.
¡ Admissions Readiness — Ready to meet admissions requirements at a range of post-‐secondary schools.
¡ Career Readiness — Ready for the future by helping students identify careers that match their personal and financial goals and by understanding the skills, experiences and other requirements to succeed in those careers.
¡ Financial Readiness — Ready to cover the cost of the first term of study after high school through savings, loans and financial aid.
¡ Personal and Social Readiness — Ready to set goals, monitor their progress and create the relationships that support academic success.
Teaching Students to Know Themselves ¡ No matter what our students do after high school — whether they
continue their education or enter the workforce — they need the same foundational skills.
¡ They need to know what to expect, how to meet demanding expectations, how to communicate effectively, how to collaborate, how to use technology, how to think critically, how to develop and bring to life novel ideas, how to advocate for themselves and how to build networks. Most important, students need to know how to learn by building their 21st century skill sets, so they can continually adapt in a rapidly changing world.
¡ To help students achieve these objectives, CPS has created an environment that provides the help students need to discover their personal strengths, skills and career interests
§ Developing your plan ▪ Step 1 – Understand Yourself Discover your personal strengths and interests through self-‐assessments ▪ The Career Cluster Finder and the Career Interest Profiler are tools to help you discover the type of work activities and occupations you would like. ▪ The Do What You Are is a self-‐assessment survey that tells you your personality type; although all individuals are unique, people of the same personality type share similarities in the kinds of academic subjects and careers they find interesting and satisfying ▪ The Learning Style Inventory helps you recognize and understand your own learning style so you can use techniques better suited to you to improve the speed and quality of learning.
▪ Step 2 – Explore Your Options Using the results of your assessments, begin career exploration ▪ Search for careers by job title, keyword, and category ▪ Read about skills, requirements, wages and job outlook ▪ Check wage data at the national, state and city levels ▪ Watch videos in Roadtrip Nation Interview Archive ▪ Identify colleges offering related majors
Step 3 -‐ Make a Plan Select “Careers I am Interested In” in your Naviance Success Plan; ask yourself “What do I need to do right now?” ▪ Identify colleges offering related major ▪ Use College Research Tools
¡ SuperMatch – a visually based search that helps you find the right fit for college. You select from a list of college decision factors and rank their importance. As you make selections, the best match colleges appear with information about why the college(s) is a good match. You can save your searches and add to the Colleges I’m Thinking About section of your portfolio.
¡ College Maps – a MapQuest tool that shows you where colleges are located
¡ College Resources – provides a list of web resources about colleges, financial aid and other admission topics.
¡ http://connection.naviance.com/ ADD YOUR SCHOOL
¡ Same username for PowerSchool, BlackBoard and Naviance
¡ Default password for 1st time sign on is your birthdate: mmddyyyy
¡ Once you login, you will be asked to enter your email address and change your password for future logins
On your Careers page you can explore careers and clusters, review your assessment results.
Use the College Research Tools, then add at least 3 colleges you are thinking about.
¡ Set academic, career and personal goals for 2016-‐2017 school year
¡ Update Resume ¡ Prepare College Essay ¡ Apply for FASFA Personal Identification Number (PIN) http://www.pin.ed.gov/PINWebApp/pinindex.jsp (even if you are not planning on attending a 2 or 4 year college right now, you should still apply)
¡ Review the Common College Application Mistakes document at the link below: http://www.actstudent.org/college/mistakes.html
¡ Whatever post-‐secondary plan you choose, you need the same academic preparation so use your last year of high school wisely!
¡ “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”Dr. Seuss
¡ Application Fee -‐-‐ most colleges charge a non-‐refundable application fee for applying -‐-‐ averaging about $25, but some can go as high as $60, which is another reason why it makes sense to narrow your list of possible schools to a manageable size. Many colleges offer fee waivers for applicants from low-‐income families. If you need a fee waiver, contact the school's admission office for more information.
¡ College Choice Criteria -‐-‐ set of values that college-‐bound students determine is important for evaluating, ranking, and reducing list of potential colleges to a reasonable number. There are any number of criteria you could use, including: degrees offered, majors/minors, location/distance from home, size of the student population, public vs. private, costs (tuition, room and board, etc.), financial aid packages, placement success/internship and co-‐op programs, accreditation, ranking.
¡ College Essay -‐-‐ a critical writing assignment that is part of the requirements for many college admissions applications. Students often have a choice of essay topics, and your goal in writing your essay should be to open a window into your personality that shows (rather than tells) the reader who you are and why you would make an ideal candidate for admission. Take the time to plan, write, edit, rewrite, edit, rewrite, and proof your essay(s) -‐-‐ and make sure you actually answer the question!
¡ College Interview -‐-‐ a large number of students don't ever complete an interview, and it certainly is not a deciding factor in your admissions status, but a college interview makes sense if you feel your credentials make you a borderline candidate for admission -‐-‐ because you can then use the interview as a chance to sell yourself and impress someone from the admissions office. The interview is also a chance for you to ask tough (or really any type) questions about the college. If you're too far away for an on-‐campus interview, try to arrange to meet with an admissions counselor when they are traveling to your area or with an alumnus in your community.
¡ College Major -‐-‐ a specific area of concentration of classes students take during their college career that leads to a degree. Majors can center around a subject (e.g. marketing, art history), theme (e.g. gender issues, ethics), or professional field (e.g. pre-‐med, pre-‐law). All students typically need to major in something; many change their majors multiple times throughout college; and some graduate with multiple majors. Majors often relate directly to career choice, but not always -‐-‐ and while it's best to settle on a major by sophomore year, many students put off the decision until later in college. Students can also combine majors with one or more minors.
¡ Common Application -‐-‐ a time-‐saving device for students applying to any of the more than 300 colleges that participate in the program run by the non-‐profit Common Application organization. Students can apply online or use the print version -‐-‐ allowing you to spend less time on the busywork of completing multiple admission application forms, and more time on other elements of college-‐planning. You may have to submit supplemental materials for certain schools in addition to the common application.
¡ Early Action -‐-‐ an emerging trend in admissions that allows students to apply for admission to the college of their choice early and receive a decision within a few months, well in advance of the normal response dates in the spring. Unlike Early Decision, you are not committed to enroll at that particular institution, and you can compare offers from other schools before making a final decision on what college to attend. Note: Applications are due much earlier for early decision requests and require more planning. Compare to regular admissions.
¡ Early Decision -‐-‐ a binding agreement between the applicant and the college that basically states that, if accepted, the student agrees to attend the college. While you are still permitted to submit applications to other colleges before the decision, once you've been accepted through early decision, you are asked to withdraw all your other college applications. Early decision is a great idea for students certain of their college choice. Note: Applications are due much earlier for early decision requests and require more planning. Compare to regular admissions.
¡ Financial Aid Package -‐-‐ total financial aid award received by a student from all sources (federal, state, institutional, and private). The financial aid package typically includes a combination of aid (grants, student loans, scholarships, and work-‐study).
¡ Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) -‐-‐ official application that needs to be completed in order to apply for virtually all types of financial aid (federal, state, or institutional) for higher education. This form is distributed and processed by the United States Department of Education and should be completed as soon in possible in January of your senior year (and then in subsequent years) -‐-‐ once you have basic income and tax-‐related information for your family.
¡ Grant -‐-‐ sum of money given to a student based on certain criteria for the purposes of paying at least part of the cost of college. A grant does not have to be repaid.
¡ Match school -‐ your academic credentials fall well within (or even exceed) the school's range for the average freshman. There are no guarantees, but it's not unreasonable to be accepted to several of your match schools.
¡ Open Admissions -‐-‐ admissions procedure used by some colleges, often state junior colleges, in which students are admitted regardless of academic qualifications.
¡ Post-‐Secondary Education -‐-‐ meaning "after high school" and referring to programs for high school graduates, including programs at two and four-‐year colleges, vocational and technical schools, apprenticeships, military training, etc.
¡ Proprietary Schools – for-‐ profit businesses; defaults ; Most for-‐profit colleges charge enrollees much higher tuition rates than analogous programs at community colleges and state public universities despite credits being likely not eligible to be transferred to other institutions. ^ Sessions, Jennifer. (February 8, 2011). “Harkin Calls on For-‐Profit Colleges to End Deceptive Recruiting Practices”. Senate HELP Committee. Accessed February 4, 2013
¡ Reach school -‐ A reach school is one where your academic credentials fall below the school's range for the average freshman. Reach schools are long–shots, but they should still be possible. If you have a 2.0 GPA, Harvard is not a reach school–it's a dream.
¡ Recommendation Letter -‐-‐ most college applications either require or request several letters of recommendation from each applicant -‐-‐ and even if one you are applying to does not, it is still a smart idea to send them. Typically, students ask their guidance counselor and one or two teachers to write them. If you have worked part-‐time while in high school, another good source is a current or former boss. The key to getting strong letters endorsing your application is to ask adults who know your work and your potential. Remember to give as much lead-‐time as possible so that the writers have enough time to write a strong letter.
¡ Regular Admissions -‐-‐ the typical admissions process for college-‐bound students who do not have a clear favorite choice. With this method you send in your completed application about midway through your senior year of high school (typically in January or February -‐-‐ check each college for deadlines), and each college notifies you of their decision later in the Spring (often early April). When you apply through the regular admission channels you have no obligation to attend any of the schools to which you have applied. Compare to Early Action and Early Decision.
¡ Rolling Admissions -‐-‐ an admissions policy in which the college you apply to accepts applications throughout the year, reviewing applications as they arrive, and sending decision letters as soon as they are made. More traditional admissions policies have an application deadline in early winter (typically January or February), after which all applications are reviewed and students are notified of decisions in late spring (between March and April).
¡ Safety school -‐ A safety school is one where your academic credentials fall above the school's range for the average freshman. You can be reasonably certain that you will be admitted to your safety schools.
¡ Scholarship -‐-‐ form of college financial aid that does not require repayment and is often made to students who show potential for distinction in their field of study. Some scholarships are awarded by colleges, but many others are awarded by individual organizations, all with various criteria and application deadlines. It's your job to find and apply for scholarships.
¡ Selective Admissions -‐-‐ admissions procedure used by most colleges and universities, in which additional standards and criteria are required for acceptance into college, including such items as college entrance exam scores, class rank, GPA, written essay(s), recommendation letters, and more.
¡ Student Loans -‐-‐ the Federal government offers assistance to college students with the Stafford Loan, a popular, low-‐cost loan, to help you pay for school. After completing your FAFSA, your financial aid award letter from your college will show your eligibility for either a subsidized or unsubsidized Stafford Loan. Only U.S. citizens or eligible non-‐citizens enrolled at least half-‐time are eligible. Other student loan options are available, including student loans for parents of college students.
¡ Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) -‐-‐ test used to evaluate the English proficiency of students applying to college whose fist language is not English. The test covers all facets of English proficiency, including a test of spoken English and grammar exercises.
¡ Transcript -‐-‐ a list of all the courses that a student has taken at a particular high school or college with the grades that the student earned in each course. Transcripts are usually required with college application forms and for admission.
¡ Wait List -‐-‐ somewhere between being accepted and being rejected, students who are waitlisted are informed that a final decision on their application will be delayed -‐-‐ usually until much later in the year when the school has an idea of how many of its accepted students will accept their offer and attend. Being waitlisted means you do not quite have the qualifications the school is seeking, and while there are some strategies for moving off the list and being accepted, it's also important to review the offers from schools that accept you outright.
¡ Work-‐Study -‐-‐ a Federal program that allows students to work part-‐time during the school year as part of their financial aid package. The jobs are usually on campus and the money earned is used to pay tuition or other college expenses. Work-‐study is awarded to students based on financial need.
