Getting Started with Naviance: Lessons and Strategies from the Hillsboro School District Naviance Summer Institute July 2015

2. Getting Started with Naviance
Lessons and Strategies from the Hillsboro School
District
July 9, 2015

3. Who We Are

4. Who We Are
• Brooke Nova: Coordinator of College & Career
Pathways, Hillsboro School District
• Sarah Seeborg: Career/College Counselor,
Glencoe High School, Hillsboro School District
• Allen Kopp: Counselor/Department Coordinator,
Century High School, Hillsboro School District
• Kelsey Carroll: Senior Consultant, K12
Professional Services, Hobsons
Who Are You?

5. Agenda Overview

6. Agenda
• Naviance Implementation in the Hillsboro School
District
• Connecting Community to the Classroom
• Breakout Sessions
• School level implementation – Sarah
• Naviance and ASCA – Allen
• District-level implementation – Brooke
• Naviance resources and support – Kelsey

7. Hillsboro School District

8. Hillsboro School District
• Fourth largest public school district in Oregon
• 20,884 students in K-12
• Four comprehensive high schools (9-12), four
middle schools (7-8), alternative school (7-12),
and online academy
• 49% of students in district qualify for free/reduced
lunch program
• 13% of students in the special education program
• 15% of students are ELLs
• Hillsboro is Oregon’s fifth largest city
• Population 93,000

9. 2014-15 at a Glance
• Naviance Team
• Leadership team
• 4 middle & high
school counselors
• School site
coordinators
• Naviance support
• District tech support
• District Administration

10. Naviance Implementation in HSD
• 2012-2013
• District purchased Naviance
• 2014-2014
• Developed a leadership team
• 3 high school counselors, 1
middle school counselor
• Leadership team with
Naviance support developed
district wide roll out plan
• Professional development for
secondary counselors
• Collaboratively, secondary
counselors developed
Naviance lessons for each
grade level 7-12
• Agreement to implement one
common lesson for each
grade level
• Parent presentations to
introduce Naviance
• 2014-2015
• Lessons implemented
throughout the district by
counselors
• Training for elementary
counselors
• Development of elementary
Naviance lessons
• Teacher training
• Parent presentations and
access codes
• 2015-2016
• Rollout of eDocs
• Teacher implemented lessons

11. Implementation Challenges
• Limited access to technology
• Limited time with students to familiarize them
with program
• Lack of teacher support with implementation
• Not enough teachers trained to make this a school-
wide tool

12. ASCA National Standards addressed through Naviance
• Academic Development Domain
Competency: Plan to Achieve
• Establish challenging academic goals in elementary,
middle/junior high, and high school
• Use assessment results in educational planning
• Develop and implement annual plan of study to maximize
academic ability and achievement
• Career Development Domain
Competency: Identify Career Goals
• Demonstrate awareness of the education and training needed
to achieve career goals
• Assess and modify their educational plan to support career goal
• Select course work that is related to career interests

13. Connecting School to Community
• Naviance: Foundation for College & Career
Exploration
• Career Learning Advisory Committees
• Creating student-centered experiences
• Partnerships

14. Breakout Sessions
• School level implementation – Sarah
• Details of HSD’s implementation plan and overview
guidance lessons
• Naviance and ASCA – Allen
• District level implementation – Brooke
• Key players and community collections
• Naviance resources and support - Kelsey

15. Questions?