Naviance

Family Connection from Naviance, is a Web-based service designed especially for students and parents. Family Connection is a comprehensive website that our students and parent/guardians can use to help in making decisions about courses, colleges, and careers. Family Connection is linked with the School Counselor’s Office, it is a computer program that we use in guidance to track and analyze data about college and career plans. It provides up-to-date information that’s specific to our schools.

Family Connection will allow our students and parents/guardians to:

  • Get involved in the planning and advising process – Build a resume, complete on-line surveys, and manage timelines and deadlines for making decisions about colleges and careers.
  • Research colleges – Compare GPA, standardized test scores, and other statistics to actual historical data from our school for students who have applied and been admitted in the past.
  • Sign up for college visits – Find out which colleges are visiting our school and sign up to attend those sessions.

Family Connection also allows schools to share information with students and parent(s)/guardians about upcoming meetings and events, local scholarship opportunities, and other Web resources for college and career information. In addition, the site includes a link that students can use to send their School Counselor email messages. To visit your school’s Family Connection site and/or get an overview of the program, see the School Counselor(s) at your school.

Students get access to NAVIANCE through the student portal and log in with Clever.

High School Scope and Sequence

Grade 9 Tasks

  • Explore Roadtrip Nation Create SMART goals (45 minutes)

    Students will watch leader videos in the Roadtrip Nation Interview Archive and complete a survey about their experience. Students will use what they learned to create academic and personal SMART goals.

  • Introduction to Naviance Transition to HS Survey (45 minutes)

    After introductory session, students will complete a survey asking questions about their transition from middle school to high school.

  • Complete Strengths Explorer (20 minutes)

    Strengths Explorer assesses 10 talent themes for individuals and identifies each student’s three strongest emerging talents.

  • Add Career Clusters to Favorites List (10 minutes)

    Students add one or more career to Favorites List in Naviance Student. Students are encouraged to use Strength’s Explorer assessment results to save related careers.

  • Create initial resume to update throughout HS (20 minutes)

    Compile a list of academic and extracurricular activities and honors.

Grade 10 Tasks

  • Find My Road: Roadtrip Nation Create SMART goals (45 minutes)

    Students will follow the Find My Road path in the Roadtrip Nation Interview Archive and complete a survey about their experience. Students will use what they learned to create and reflect upon academic and personal SMART goals.

  • Complete Do What You Are assessment (30 minutes)

    Students complete the DWYA assessment to learn which careers and college majors offer the greatest likelihood of success.

  • Examine DWYA Personality Type Report (20 minutes)

    After taking DWYA assessments, students will utilize the Personality Type report to better understand themselves.

    Reflection survey.

  • Add Career to Favorites List (10 minutes)

    Students add one or more career to Favorites List in Naviance Student. Students are encouraged to use Do What You Are assessment results to save related careers. After taking Learning Styles Inventory assessment, students will utilize the learning style report to better understand themselves.

  • Complete a SuperMatch College Search (20 minutes)

    Students will learn important details about their colleges of interest. Students add colleges they are interested in to the Colleges I’m Thinking About list. Use results from Career favorites to find major and universities.

Grade 11 Tasks

  • Update Resume to use as brag sheet (20 minutes)

    Compile a list of academic and extracurricular activities and honors.

  • Explore Roadtrip Nation Create SMART goals (45 minutes)

    Students will select a theme in the Roadtrip Nation Interview Archive and complete a survey about their experience. Students will then use what they learned to create and reflect upon academic and personal SMART goals.

  • MI Advantage Assessment Add Careers to Favorites List (40 minutes)

    Students will take the MI Advantage assessment to reveal their intelligence strengths and challenges, and investigate suggestions on ways to develop all their intelligences. Students will use the results of the assessment to add careers to the favorites list.

  • SuperMatch College Search View Virtual College Tours (20 minutes)

    Students will learn important details about their colleges of interest. Students save SuperMatch search and add colleges they are interested in to the Colleges I’m Thinking About list.

  • Explore Scholarships (20 minutes)

    Students explore lessons on financial literacy.

  • Game Plan Survey (20 minutes)

    Students will take a post-secondary planning survey at the end of the year in order to identify post-high school goals.

Grade 12 Tasks

  • Find My Road: Roadtrip Nation Create SMART goals (45 minutes)

    Students will follow the Find My Road path in the Roadtrip Nation Interview Archive and complete a survey about their experience. Students will then use what they learned to create and reflect upon academic and personal SMART goals.

  • View 3 Virtual College Tours, add colleges to list (30 minutes)

    Students add colleges they are interested into a list of colleges they are thinking about.

  • Explore Scholarships (40 minutes)

    Students explore how to pay for college by using Scholarship Match and adding scholarships to a list.

  • FAFSA Application Form

    Students will complete the FAFSA form. Staff marks as complete. This task is completed outside of Naviance. School counselors will record completion.

  • Apply to college

    Task is marked complete when student adds colleges to Colleges I’m Applying To list and request Letters of Recommendation from at least two teachers.

  • Resume: Update final version (15 minutes)

    Task is marked complete when the student creates or updates their resume.

  • Research current job outlook for careers of interest (20 minutes)

    Students will search careers focusing on aligned college majors. Task is marked complete when the student answers a survey about the careers they researched and what they can study to achieve their goals.

  • Senior Exit Survey (20 minutes)

    Students will complete a survey at the end of the year that provides the district with information about their post-secondary plan.