Saint Paul Public Schools require all students to develop a six-year educaitonal plan. The Six-Year Plan is an online tool that helps students develop a plan for high school and at least two years of higher education or a high-skill career. Advisors, counselors, and parents can access their students' Six-Year Plans online and are expected to review them with each student at least twice a year. Kitty Johnson, AP Bound Counselor and Gifted Services, Saint Paul Public Schools; Kimm Opplet, Consultant, Naviance

1. MN ACT 2012 Annual State
Organization Conference
February 17, 2012
Developing Six-Year
Educational Plans
Kitty Johnson, Licensed School Counselor
with Saint Paul Public Schools
Kim Oppelt, Senior Consultant with Naviance

2. Welcome!
• Goals for today:
– Identify who is here;
– Share ideas with one another;
– Address your needs:
• What are you hoping to get from attending
this session?
• Think about next steps….

3. Six Year Plan of SPPS

4. Guiding Vision:
Wouldn’t it be nice if every high
school could say that every
student who graduates in 2008
and beyond will have an up-to-
date, compelling vision of their
desired future and a detailed,
viewable plan to get there?

5. Goals of Six Year Plan:
 Motivate students through an association with
career and life planning. Too many students feel
school is boring and irrelevant.
 Create a culture of high aspirations. We must
instill the belief that college is possible early on.
 Provide students with a tool to help design a 6
Year Plan. A place to tell us about their dreams
and ambitions. The things we used to talk about
at the dinner table.
 Increase the number of students who are
engaged in what they are doing in high school
and how it connects to their future. Too many
students follow the path of least resistance that
take them through a series of disconnected
classes.
 Increase graduation rates for all students. We
have to do better.

6. Individual Graduation Plan:

7. Themes by grade level:
 Ninth grade: Learning Style Inventory
 Naviance: Learning Style Inventory
 Tenth grade: College and Career Search
 Naviance: College and Career Search
 Eleventh grade: Resume writing and
ACT test preparation
 Naviance: resume tool and Method Test Prep.
 Twelfth grade: College/scholarship applications
 Naviance: College Search and Scholarship Database

8. Questions:

9. Let’s check out the site:
www.succeed.naviance.com