1. Integrating Naviance into Site and
District Strategic Planning
Presenter: Bruce Armes
San Juan Unified School District
Thursday, July 11, 2013
1:45 PM to 2:45 PM

2. Integrating Naviance into Site
and District Strategic Planning

3. Integrating Naviance into
Site and District Strategic Planning
• Cover SJUSD journey with Strategic Planning
• Naviance’s use in SJUSD Strategic Planning
• Your Strategic Planning
• How Naviance can be viewed differently
• Sharing and Q&A

4. Integrating Naviance into
Site and District Strategic Planning
San Juan Unified School District
• 9 -High School Schools
• 8 -Middle Schools
• 7 -K-8 Schools
• 42 –Elementary Schools
• Plus Alterative Schools
Located eastern suburbs of Sacramento, CA
Covers 88 Square miles
Webpage: www.sanjuan.edu

5. Integrating Naviance into
Site and District Strategic Planning
SJUSD Strategic Planning Timeline:
January 2009: 30-Member Planning Team
Feb. – May 2009: Action Teams
June 2009: Board Approves Plan (2010-2015)
April 2012: Updated
Mission:
Valuing diversity and excellence, the San Juan
Unified School District’s mission is to educate and
inspire each student to succeed and responsibly
contribute to a radically evolving world by providing
innovative, rigorous, student-focused instruction and
programs in a safe, caring, collaborative learning
community.

6. Integrating Naviance into
Site and District Strategic Planning
Strategy 4:
We will design and implement a system that creates challenging
personal educational plans at each appropriate level in collaboration
with students, families and staff.
Action Plan 2:
Evaluate and implement an online, interactive tool which allows
students to plan their academic, activities, and other experiences, in
collaboration with families and staff

7. Integrating Naviance into
Site and District Strategic Planning
What was our intentionality?
“… each student to succeed and
responsibly contribute to a radically
evolving world, …”

8. Integrating Naviance into
Site and District Strategic Planning
What is your intentionality?
How will students be different from
using Naviance?

9. Integrating Naviance into
Site and District Strategic Planning

10. Integrating Naviance into
Site and District Strategic Planning
• Where does Naviance fit, beyond what it was
originally purchased for?
• Does Naviance have abilities to perform tasks in
your school or district that you haven’t thought of?
• Can features within Naviance be used differently?
• How will it enhance assessment and evaluation?

11. Integrating Naviance into
Site and District Strategic Planning
Assessment and Evaluation
•Care about data and review it
•Develop a plan for your reporting needs
•Identification of items to be measured
•What benchmarks are needed?
•How are you going to report back and to whom?

12. Integrating Naviance into
Site and District Strategic Planning
PLANNING, PLANNING, PLANNING
•Determine the items to focus on
•Staff development around specific implementations
•Be honest about what cannot be done
•Understand your site and district needs
•Be creative

13. Integrating Naviance into
Site and District Strategic Planning
• Finding where Naviance fixes as a tool to work in
support of the Strategic Plan
• Identify and Engaging Key players
• Setting a timeline to address Key Points
• Developing a relationship with Hobsons Staff

14. Integrating Naviance into
Site and District Strategic Planning
Key Players:
• District School Counselors
• District Teachers
• Site Administrators
• Parents/Students
• District Technology (IT)
• District Assessment and Evaluation
• District Office Administrators
• District’s Board of Education
• Hobsons Staff
Plus others you haven’t thought about

15. Integrating Naviance into
Site and District Strategic Planning
• Questions?
• Discussion

16. Contact information:
Bruce Armes
Lead Counselor
San Juan Unified School District
barmes@sanjuan.edu
(916) 971-7165

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