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Naviance in Action Chelette Stephenson @TXCollegeLady Director of College Counseling, Yes Prep North Central t e x a sc o ll eg e l ad y @ y ahoo .c om

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Naviance in Action

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Who am I

Chelette Stephenson

•College & Career Counselor for MISD (8 years) magnoliaisd.org/ccc

•Mother of Jaden (4) & Charleigh (2)

•Wife of 5 years

•Naviance Presenter (2010-2013)

•Naviance Innovator of the Year, 2012

•Texas A&M Class of 2001

•Lamar University M.ED in Counseling and L.P.C.

•TACAC, NACAC, TCA, ACA Member

•Real Life Passion: Photographer

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Through the grapevine

• When do you find time to do what you do?• How much work do you take home?• Do you sleep?• How much coffee do you really drink?• You want me to ask my teachers to do

what?• Seriously?

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Today we will accomplish:

• Identifying “Great Ideas and Best Practices” for– Your Community– Teachers & Administrators– Students– Parents

• Social Media and YOU

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Ready, Set, SHARE!

Timer 10 minutes

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Chalk, Coffee and Creativity

CHALK

•Write about upcoming events in Parking Lot

•Take a picture of it.

•Tweet it, FB it, Pin it, Instagram it

SENIOR Coffee•Once a month, before school, in the library•SENIORS only•Parents, colleges, and military recruiters donate goodies for raffle.

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CELEBRATE SUCCESS

“Oh the Places You’ll Go”•Students update their status in Naviance, they are invited to the Celebration in December and/or April.•College Acceptance Letter is their ticket in.•Cupcakes, Cotton Candy and Hot Coco-

December• Snow Cones-April•Take pictures of every student with their acceptance letter.•To see more pictures: http://texascollegelady.blogspot.com/2013/01/oh-places-youll-go- january-2013.html

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Visits

•When was the last time you took a group of students on a college tour?

•How many different College Admissions Representatives come to meet with your students?

•My $5 plan

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Unused Real Estate

•Writing on the Walls

•Wall of Thoughts

•“If I had a million dollars, I would

.

•“When I was little, I wanted to be .

Now I want to be .

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Writing on the Wall

• Every month, focus on one grade level. Stand outside English teacher’s classroom with laptops or butcher paper

• Depending on grade level, students put their college dreams on Naviance or on the wall.

• Parent Volunteers transfer “Writing”

Cake Signing

• Seniors• At the end of Fall

semester during lunches, seniors get a piece of cake after they update their status in Naviance (acceptance, etc) or on a piece of paper.

• (Reports from Naviance)

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Think Outside the Box

• Where do you spend most of your time?• Moved my office to the middle of the

commons during lunch

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Planting Seeds

•Organized by grade-color coded

•Instruction Sheets about Naviance, College Planning, Career Planning, along with scholarship applications

•Show me the Money Wednesday Workshops during lunch

•The Money Tree

•No Money Left Behind Financial Aid Seminars December-March

•Lessons Learned Weekly Newsletter

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Framed Success

•Print pictures on transparencies and then make frames out of butcher paper.

•Hang up College Acceptance Letters

•Pictures of staff on College T-Shirt days

•Pictures of all College and Career Center Events

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College Cram Sessions

• One day cram session by grades at each semester break

• Naviance in a Nutshell

• $25• (Pays for my

fun)

College Boot Camps• 4 day sessions• Educate on

everything under the sun in Naviance

• $50• Parents invited.

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Your Staff needs YOU too!

• Teacher Tea Times• Wednesday Walks

– Hand out supplies-Markers, Expos, Highlighters, Post It Notes, etc

• Teach for the Day• Not just another College T-Shirt

Day– Take pictures!

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Wednesday Walks

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Look Around

• Empty Nest Prep Luncheon for Senior Parents

• Junior Conferences• Sponsor a table at Community Events• Newspaper Editor should be your

BFF• When was the last time you drove

around where your students live?

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So what can you do?

•Look at the

Sheets &

Pick 3 ideas

You could

Take back

To your

School. GO!

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• Facebook:www.facebook.com/texascollegelady

• Website: www.magnoliaisd.org/ccc• Blog: http://texascollegelady.blogspot.com/• Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/cstarst

ephenson/colle ge-planning/

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Outside the Box

• http://knitterchat.com/ Stitching ideas through webbed conversation

• http://flipboard.com/ Flipboard is your personal magazine, filled with the things you care about.

• http://www.instagram.com Pictures!• http://www.instagrok.com GO!• QR Codes- Download APP on phone!

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Yes there is more!

• http://twijector.com/go/college (Twitter)• http://www.tweetdeck.com (Twitter)• http://www.edmodo.com/• http://cel.ly/about (Text Messages)• http://paper.li/(Publish newsletters off

your Tweets)• https://www.edsurge.com/• http://www.acceptly.com/

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It’s the little things

• It only takes one thing to change a person’s life forever. What will it be? I am not sure but I do know one thing for sure, I am willing to try a thousand different, crazy, outside the box ideas to reach that one!

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Chelette StephensonDirector of College Counseling and Alumni ServicesYes Prep North Central

[email protected]@yahoo.com832-492-7024

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