1. Increase Adoption with the Family
Connection Engagement Package
Amy McDonald
Naviance Consultant
July 10, 2013

2. Challenges with student and family
engagement
In this session we will discuss increasing
student and family engagement using the
resources offered in the Naviance Family
Connection Engagement Package. Some
of the content from the Family Connection
Engagement Package will be used, but we
will also talk through additional engagement
strategies that have been successful at
other schools and districts.

3. Agenda
 Challenges on engagement
 Common challenges with student engagement
 Common challenges with family engagement
 Group participation and brainstorming
 Are there additional challenges you are facing?
 What has worked at your school/district?
 Family Connection Engagement Package
 Overview
 How can we effectively use these resources?
 Conclusion
 Additional ideas for student engagement
 How to access the Family Connection Engagement
Package

4. Common Challenges
with student and
family engagement

5. Student Engagement
 Common challenges with student engagement
 How do we better engage students?
 How do we train students on Family Connection?
 Are there resources available that we can use to
educate
our students?
 How do we manage lack of access to technology?
 How do we handle multi-lingual students?

6. Family Engagement
 Common challenges with family/parent engagement
 How do we better engage parents?
 How do we train parents on Family Connection?
 Are there resources available that we can use to
educate our parents?
 What do parents see on Family Connection?
 How do we handle multi-lingual parents?

7. Group Activity
What other challenges are you
facing with engagement?
**(I will already have the list of the common challenges for student and parent
engagement listed on the white paper and will add to the list as they
participate so that we can provide the full list to the attendees after the
session)

8. Group Activity
What have you done to address
challenges with engagement at
your school/district?
**(I will already have the list of ideas on the white paper and I will add on any
additional ideas the group comes up with during the activity so that we can
provide the entire list to the attendees after the session)

9. Family Connection
Engagement Package

10. Family Connection Engagement
Package Overview
 The package provides materials to drive student engagement,
includes student-facing brochures, and suggests activities schools
can do to increase student usage of Family Connection. In addition,
it provides schools with materials for educating parents and
guardians on how to use Family Connection.
 What is Included?
• One student brochure on how to use Family Connection
• Two parent brochures on how to use Family Connection
• Four quick reference guides for students on Getting Started:
College
Planning, Career Planning, Success Planning and Course
Planning
• Two quick reference guides for parents on Getting Started:
College and Career Planning, Success Planning and Course
Planning
• Communication templates for Family Connection awareness
among
parents and guardians
• List of activities that foster student Family Connection usage

11. Family Connection Engagement
Package – Student Documents
• Student Brochure
• Career Planning Quick Reference Guide
• College Planning Quick Reference Guide
• Course Planning Quick Reference Guide
• Success Planning Quick Reference Guide
• Getting Started with Usernames and Passwords Quick Reference
Guide
• Getting Started with Registration Codes Quick Reference Guide
*All materials are provided in English and Spanish in MS Word and
PDF.
*Materials can be easily customized for your school.

12. Sample Student Documents –
Student Brochure

13. Sample Student Document – Quick
Guide in English
 Quick Guides
provide
helpful
overviews and
include screen
shots to get
the student
started on
each feature
of Naviance.

14. Sample Student Document – Quick
Guide in Spanish
 All of the
quick guides
are available
in Spanish.

15. Family Connection Engagement
Package – Parent Documents
• Parent Brochure Light Version
• Parent Brochure Full Version
• College and Career Quick Reference Guide
• Success and Course Quick Reference Guide
*All materials are provided in English and Spanish in MS Word and PDF.
*Materials can be easily customized for your school.

16. Sample Parent Document – Parent
Brochure (light)

17. Sample Parent Document – Parent
Quick Guide
 The Getting
Started quick
guide for parents
provides helpful
information
about registering
for Family
Connection and
how to use
Naviance to
communicate
with school staff.

18. Family Connection Engagement Package
– Communication Templates
• E-mail to introduce Family Connection to existing students
• E-mail to introduce Family Connection to new students
• E-mail to re-engage returning students with Family Connection
• E-mail to deliver Family Connection engagement package documents
• to students
• E-mail to introduce Family Connection to parents
• E-mail to deliver Family Connection Engagement documents to parents
*All materials are provided in English and Spanish in MS Word and PDF.
*Materials can be easily customized for your school.

19. Sample Communication Template –
Email to New Student

20. Sample Communication Template – Letter
to Students about Family Connection

21. Student Engagement
Ideas and
Suggestions

22. Suggested Engagement Activities

23. Suggested Engagement Activities

24. Suggested Engagement Activities

25. Suggested Engagement Activities

26. Suggested Engagement Activities

27. Questions?

28. Accessing Family Connection
If you purchased The Family
Connection Engagement
Package or are interested in
purchasing, please contact your
Naviance Success Manager. If
you don’t know who your
Naviance success manager is,
please let us know, we would be
happy to help.

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Naviance Summer Institute 2013!
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