Role of School Counselors using Naviance

New Haven Public Schools

NAVIANCE and Student Success Plans

School Counselors coordinate and manage academic, career, and social-emotional support
services for each student to promote school success.
Post-secondary advising occurs both formally and informally. Counselors work with students and
their parents through group and individual advising sessions.
Our Goal: To make students and parents aware of the wide range of post-secondary choices
available and to help students narrow the field, find the right plan for their individual needs, and
work through that process.
A Student Success Plan is an individualized plan created by each student in collaboration with
their school counselor, classroom teachers, faculty members who may act as their monitor,
advisor or mentor, as well as parents / guardians. Student Success Plans are created to address
academic development, career development, and social / emotional / physical development.
The SSP is designed to help every student actively plan for their future, and to achieve their post
high school educational and career goals. The SSP begins in the 6th grade and continues through
12th grade. Each student is provided support and assistance in setting goals for social, physical
and academic growth, meeting rigorous learning expectations in the classroom, and exploring
post high school education and career interests.
In each grade level, students are presented with a variety of activities, programs and services
intended to build the 21st century capacities and learning expectations.
New Haven Public Schools utilizes Family Connection from Naviance, a web-based service
designed especially for students and parents to organize and document many of the tasks related
to Student Success Plans. Naviance is a comprehensive web site that you can use to help in
making decisions about colleges and careers. We use Naviance in the School Counseling Offices
to track and analyze data about our students college and career plans. Naviance will allow
students 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 students who have already applied from our high school.
Sign up for college visits - Find out which colleges are visiting our school and sign up to
attend those sessions.

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The School Counselor Responsibilities in Naviance

Tabs
Colleges Tab
(Grades 9-12)

Careers Tab
(Grades 7-12)

About Me Tab
(Grades 6-12)

Features
My Colleges = Colleges Im Thinking About, Colleges Im Applying To
(High School)
College Research = SuperMatch, College Lookup, College Search, College
Resources
Scholarships & Money = Scholarship List, Financial Aid

My Planner Tab

(Grades 6-12)

Explore Careers = Favorite Careers & Clusters, Explore Careers & Clusters
What Are My Interests? = Career Cluster Finder (Grade 7), Career Key
(Grade 8)
Do What You Are (Personality Inventory) (Grade 10)
Career Interest Profiler (Grade 11)

Goals Set annual Goals with the support of your school counselor
Tasks See a list of tasks assigned to all students in your grade level. Some
of these are required, and some are recommended.
Resume builder one of the tasks that each student will accomplish each year

An online planner allows students to map individualized action plans towards

their academic, personal, & career goals.
A collaboration tool, allowing students and school staff to work together to
raise accountability, increase expectations, and align each students goals and
interests.

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Features to Explore
Feature
My Planner

Grades 6-12

Rsum

Description
An online planner allows students to map
individualized action plans towards their
academic, personal, & career goals.
A collaboration tool, allowing students and
school staff to work together in raising
accountability, increasing expectations, and
aligning students goals and interests.

Grades 6-12
Explore
Interests &
Careers

Grades 7-12
Do What You
Are

Grades 9-12

2. Click on Goals, To-Do

lists and Tasks assigned to
me.

Record your high school activities, awards,

volunteer experience, etc.
Rearrange your information into multiple
printable versions of a rsum that you can use
to present to potential employers or colleges.

1.

Take a career survey, a tool that can help you

discover the types of work activities and
careers that match your interests. Use the
results to explore suggested occupations;
examine the education, training, and skills
required [and where to obtain them], as well as
wages typical for these occupations.

1.

A personality survey. Use the results to

explore suggested college majors and careers
based on your preferences and strengths.

1.

Set search criteria to yield a list of colleges to

explore. Save your search to access/modify
later.
Click on the various tabs of the college profile
(general, admissions, financial aid, majors and
degrees, and student life) for additional
information.
Add colleges youre interested in to your My
Colleges list for future reference. You will be
notified by email when those colleges schedule
a visit to your school.

1.

Grade 10

College Search

How to Access
1. Click the My Planner
tab

Click the About Me tab

2. Click the Rsum

hyperlink under the
Interesting Things About
Me section
Click the Careers tab

2. Click the Career

Interest Profiler hyperlink
under the What Are My
Interests? section

Click the About Me tab

2. Click the Personality

Type hyperlink under the
What Are My Interests
section

Click the Colleges tab

2. Click the College

Search hyperlink under the
College Research section
3. Ask a NHPS graduate
at that school for more
information if you are
interested.

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College Maps

Grades 9-12
Scholarship List

Groups types of colleges by location. Click on

a college to view its profile.

1.

Click the Colleges tab

2. Click the College

Maps hyperlink under the
College Research section

Grades 9-12

National, regional, local and collegiate

sponsored scholarship opportunities.
Database lists entries by name, deadline, award
amount, merit vs need-based and application
requirements; click on a column header to sort
entries.
You can also browse by category to yield a
search list relevant to your interests.

1.

Click the Colleges tab

2. Click the Scholarship

List hyperlink under the
Scholarships & Money
section

College Application Statistics

Feature
Application

Description
Summary of high school application results
(admit, deny, enroll), by year.

How to Access
1. Click the Colleges tab

History

2. Click the College Lookup

hyperlink under the College Research
section

Grades 10-12

3. After looking up and selecting a

college, the Application History table
appears in the middle of the page.
1. Click the Colleges tab

School

Statistics

Grades 10-12

Historical summary of high school

application outcomes (number
admitted, denied, etc.) by application
decision plan (i.e. regular and early
decision) by college.
Historical average of GPA, SAT and
ACT scores for admitted applicants,
by college.

2. Click the College Lookup

hyperlink under the College Research
section
3. After looking up and selecting a
college, click on School Stats
hyperlink located beneath the
colleges contact information. Two
tables are displayed:

Graph

Historical application results (admit, deny,

waitlist) represented in a scattergram (i.e.
graph); applicant average GPA appears on the
y-axis and applicant average SAT scores on

1.

Outcomes
GPA and Test Scores

Click the Colleges tab

2. Click the College Lookup

hyperlink under the College Research

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Grades 10-12

the x-axis. For an applicant to be represented

on a scattergram for a given college, three
things must be present:
1. an application result (accepted or denied)

section
3. After looking up and selecting a
college, click on Graph hyperlink
located beneath the colleges contact
information.

2. a GPA
3. a test score

College
Compare

Grades 10-12

Compare your GPA and test scores to the

average GPA and test scores of GHS admitted
students for colleges you are considering.
School averages are displayed in green when
your numbers are higher and in red when your
numbers are lower than those of past-admitted
students.

1.

Click the Colleges tab.

2. Click the Colleges Im Thinking

About hyperlink from the My
Colleges section.
3. Click the Compare Me hyperlink
above the table.