1. Career Counseling Center
Parent Academy Naviance Night for 9th and 10th grade
Brought to you by the
MTHS College
&
Career Counseling Center

2. MTHS SCHOOL COUNSELORS
District Supervisor of Guidance:
Dr. Michele Critelli
Counselors:
Mrs. Nicole Cruz
Mrs. Damaris Dominguez
Mr. Anthony Gambino
Ms. Cathy Ielpi
Mrs. Lauren Mironov
Mrs. Diane Peterson
Mrs. Brooke Yudell

3. How We Share Information
MTHS Website
Under Departments
Click COLLEGE & CAREER COUNSELING CENTER
Parent Academy: Night Programs
Events Posted Online
Check & Global Call
Naviance
On COLLEGE & CAREER COUNSELING CENTER Homepage
Click Blue Naviance Icon
Monthly Newsletter
On COLLEGE & CAREER COUNSELING CENTER Webpage
Click Monthly Newsletter

4. MTHS Website

5. MTHS Website

6. Why Naviance? What are my options after high school?
What courses should I take in High school?
What career should I choose?
What will I study in college?
How will I pay for college?
What college should I attend?
What SAT score do I need to get in to a good college?
How do I apply for college?
What are application deadlines?

7. Naviance: 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.
The following slides provide an overview of Family Connection.

8. Overview What is Naviance / Family Connection?
What Can Students And Parents Do Using Family Connection?
How does it help with career and college planning?
How do I login?
How to navigate the website?

9. What is Naviance?
Family Connection is a Web-based program designed for students and parents.
It assists students and parents in helping make decisions about courses, colleges and careers as well as assist in finding funding.
Information is specific to Monroe Township High School. 
Counselors can update students and parents about up-coming meetings, news, events, and other Web resources for college and career information

10. Family Connections Components
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
Game Plan Survey
Compare colleges
Links to selected third party resources
(i.e. College Board, Financial Aid, NCAA, Careers, College searches, etc.)
Track deadlines
View scatter grams

11. Family Connections Components
Assessments
Students can take various assessments to help them understand more about their strengths and how they connect to the classroom and career pathways.
Career Planning
Students can link personality type and interests with both career clusters and individual careers.
College Planning
Students can track every step in the college process, research colleges, enrichment programs and scholarships.

12. Family Connections Components
Assessments
Strengths Explorer- 9th Grade Lesson
This will help uncover your child’s talents and reveal their potential strengths
The Learning Style Inventory
Your child will find out how they learn and work best
Do What You Are
This will help your child learn about their personality, and strengths. You will also see suitable careers and major

13. What is my Login Students already have a login 9th Grade
Username: WebID Username
Password: WebID Password
10th -12th Grade
Username: Student
Parents receive a separate registration code
Counselor for Registration Code or Login Information

14. Sign-in Page
The next time you log in, use user name and password

15. After You Sign in Updates from the Guidance Office Click on the Tabs
Important Messages
Updates from the Guidance Office

16. Colleges Page
Use these links to do a college search

17. Colleges I’m Thinking About
Click Here to add colleges to your prospective college list

18. See what College visits are scheduled and sign up to attend!

19. About Me – Resume and Surveys
Click here to fill out important surveys, tell us your Game Plan and create your resume

20. Scattergram
Accepted
Denied
THIS IS YOU!
School Averages

21. Colleges I’m Applying to My Applications

22. Review: Using Family Connection
Shared resources linking home to school
On-line tools for collaboration among counselors, students, and parents
Accurate and complete records about student’s choices
Graphs and charts displaying colleges where students have applied, were accepted and are attending
For more information, please contact the guidance department
Please take our Survey!