1. Welcome GHS Parents! Stay connected to Grafton Guidance! Twitter: @GraftonGuidance Instagram: GraftonGuidance Facebook: GraftonGuidance

2. Navigating Naviance The Ins and Outs of Family Connection Presented By: Grafton Guidance

3. Agenda  What is Naviance and Family Connection?  Log-On Procedures  Proposed Guidance curriculum activities by grade level  Home page and About Me  Careers  College  Question and Answer time

4. What is Naviance? Naviance/Family Connection is a web-based comprehensive and widely used college and career planning software program that assists our students, parents, and counselors in various areas of your child’s education and post-high school planning process.

5. Proposed Grade Level Activities 9 th Grade Introduction to Naviance Username/password Overview of program “Do What You Are Assessment” Begin to match interests/personality with Careers Career Clusters Sign-up for college visits with Reps here at GHS 10 th Grade Career Exploration Complete Career Interests Profiler Career Cluster Finder Begin to match careers of interests to possible college majors Sign-up for college visits with Reps here at GHS GPA access

6. Proposed Grade Level Activities 11 th grade Refining College and Career Options Complete/Refine SuperMatch College Search Compare Colleges of interest Compare College acceptances with own profile Compile list of schools and add colleges to “Colleges I’m applying to” Sign-up for college visits with Reps here at GHS Advanced Scholarship search Local Scholarship opportunities *Starting in Fall 2016- Transcript requests/recommendations/college apps through eDocs 12 th grade Finalizing Post-high school plans Identify possible college majors Investigate careers Match career/major to colleges Complete College Search using Super Match Begin to add colleges to “My possible colleges” Research and compare colleges Research admissions requirements for schools that are of interest View GPA and Test scores Sign-up for college visits with Reps here at GHS

7. Log-on procedures  Go to: http://connection.naviance.com/gra fton http://connection.naviance.com/gra fton  All parents received an email with a unique registration code  On your first visit, enter the code in the NEW USER box, then follow the on- screen instructions to create a username and password  On subsequent visits, sign in using the RETURNING USER box and sign in using your username and password you created during registration New user? I need to register.

8. Home page  Announcements  What’s new  Links  Messages  Contact us

9. About me  Interesting things about your student  Favorite colleges  Favorite careers  Resume  Journal  Game plan  Official things: profile/Test scores This is where you can also change your username or password.

10. Careers Students will complete the Do What You Are Assessment in grade 9 and will continue their career research in 10 th grade. Do What You Are: Personality Test (9 th grade)

11. Career interest profiler results Matching Occupation List

12. My favorite careers and clusters Demonstration

13. Colleges  Will probably be the most used tab at GHS!  Includes college rep visits to GHS, SuperMatch, college search, college map, scattergrams, college compare, scholarship search, and ability to link to college websites.

14. Colleges SuperMatch: Narrow down the list of schools your student is interested in using the categories… you do not need to complete every step unless you want to! *Students can add schools to Colleges I’m thinking about…

15. Colleges  As early as freshman year, students can sign up to meet with admission reps from various colleges and universities  It’s a great way to:  find out if your student is really interested in a particular school before you visit the campus  start a good relationship with the school of choice and the admission rep

16. Colleges  Compare Colleges  Top 20  Scattergram Demonstration

17. Naviance Mobile app

18. Contact info For any help with Naviance please feel free to contact your child’s Guidance Counselor. Students with the last names that begin with: A-B: Mrs. Swenson, swensonk@grafton.k12.ma.usswensonk@grafton.k12.ma.us C-Ge: Mrs. Green, greenm@grafton.k12.ma.usgreenm@grafton.k12.ma.us Gi-L: Mrs. Murphy, murphye@grafton.k12.ma.usmurphye@grafton.k12.ma.us M-Rog: Ms. Rohan, rohanl@grafton.k12.ma.usrohanl@grafton.k12.ma.us Rol-Z: Mrs. Egan, egank@grafton.k12.ma.usegank@grafton.k12.ma.us ELL Students: Mr. Patraitis, patraitisj@grafton.k12.ma.uspatraitisj@grafton.k12.ma.us

19. Questions? Thank you for coming!