Naviance/Family Connection Avon Grove Charter School 2015-2016 Presentation

Presentation Agenda Overview of what Naviance and Family Connection is AGCS Goals for using Naviance and Family Connection Overview of the different tools within Family Connection Brief Tutorial on how to use Family Connection Questions

What is Naviance & Family Connection? Naviance is a comprehensive college and career readiness solution for middle and high schools that helps connect academic achievement to post-secondary goals.” Let’s watch a video  http://www.naviance.com/college-and-career-readiness-platform

So, how will Naviance & Family Connection help me? Shared resource linking home to school On-line tool for collaboration among counselors, students, and parents Accurate, complete records about student choices from our school Realistic assessments of your child’s chances of admission at colleges where prior graduates have applied Career exploration

Family Connection We are pleased to introduce Family Connection from Naviance, a web based service designed especially for students and parents. Family Connection is a comprehensive website that you and your child can use to help in making decisions about courses, colleges, and careers. Family Connection is linked with Naviance Succeed, a service that we use in our office to track and analyze data about college and career plans, so it provides up-to-date information that is specific to our school. The following slides provide an overview of Family Connection.

Overview of what Students and Parents can do using Family Connection View guidance news bulletins Create a résumé View college visits and sign up Complete a college search Develop a prospective college list Provide access to scholarship search engines; over a hundred national scholarships are available Maintain journal entries Game Plan Survey Complete school developed surveys Compare colleges Links to selected third party resources (i.e. College Board, Financial Aid, NCAA, Careers, College searches, etc.) Track deadlines View scattergrams

Accessing Family Connection Family Connection is web-based http://connection.naviance.com/agcharter Student accounts Parent accounts

After you sign in…

Using Family Connection

College Planning in Family Connection

College Visits Page in Family Connection

College Profiles in Family Connection

Applications/Transcript Requests in Family Connection

Applications/Transcript Requests in Family Connection http://vimeo.com/24627997

Careers in Family Connection

Careers in Family Connection

Additional Functions Strengths and Personality Assessments Career Roadmap Task assigning abilities Career and college readiness starting in 9th grade!

How to register? Naviance link can be found on www.agcharter.org in the Guidance tab, under Naviance

Completing your registration

Questions?