1. Naviance in Action
Chelette Stephenson
@TXCollegeLady
Director of College Counseling, Yes Prep North Central
texascollegelady@yahoo.com

2. Naviance in Action

3. Who am I
Chelette Stephenson
•College & Career Counselor for MISD
(8 years) magnoliaisd.org/ccc
•Mother of Jaden (4) & Charleigh (2)
•Wife of 5 years
•Naviance Presenter (2010-2013)
•Naviance Innovator of the Year, 2012
•Texas A&M Class of 2001
•Lamar University M.ED in Counseling
and L.P.C.
•TACAC, NACAC, TCA, ACA Member
•Real Life Passion: Photographer

4. Through the grapevine
• When do you find time to do what you do?
• How much work do you take home?
• Do you sleep?
• How much coffee do you really drink?
• You want me to ask my teachers to do
what?
• Seriously?

5. • Definition of action (n) [ ákshan ]
– doing something toward goal: the process of doing something in
order to achieve a purpose
– something done: something that somebody or something does
– movement: the way somebody or something moves or works, or
the movement itself
(www.thefreedictionary.com/action)

6. Today we will accomplish:
• Identifying “Great Ideas and Best
Practices” for
– Your Community
– Teachers & Administrators
– Students
– Parents
• Social Media and YOU

7. Ready, Set, SHARE!
Timer 10 minutes

8. Chalk, Coffee and Creativity
CHALK
•Write about upcoming events in
Parking Lot
•Take a picture of it.
•Tweet it, FB it, Pin it, Instagram it
SENIOR Coffee
•Once a month, before school, in
the library
•SENIORS only
•Parents, colleges, and military
recruiters donate goodies for raffle.

9. CELEBRATE SUCCESS
“Oh the Places You’ll Go”
•Students update their status in
Naviance, they are invited to the
Celebration in December and/or April.
•College Acceptance Letter is their ticket in.
•Cupcakes, Cotton Candy and Hot Coco-
December
• Snow Cones-April
•Take pictures of every student with their
acceptance letter.
•To see more pictures:
http://texascollegelady.blogspot.com/2013/01/
oh-places-youll-go- january-2013.html

10. Visits
•When was the last time you took a group of students on a
college tour?
•How many different College Admissions Representatives come
to meet with your students?
•My $5 plan

11. Unused Real Estate
•Writing on the Walls
•Wall of Thoughts
•“If I had a million dollars, I would .
•“When I was little, I wanted to be .
Now I want to be .

12. Writing on the Wall
• Every month, focus on one
grade level. Stand outside
English teacher’s classroom
with laptops or butcher paper
• Depending on grade
level, students put their
college dreams on Naviance
or on the wall.
• Parent Volunteers transfer
“Writing”
Cake Signing
• Seniors
• At the end of Fall
semester during
lunches, seniors get a
piece of cake after they
update their status in
Naviance
(acceptance, etc) or on a
piece of paper.
• (Reports from Naviance)

13. Think Outside the Box
• Where do you spend most of your time?
• Moved my office to the middle of the
commons during lunch

14. Planting Seeds
•Organized by grade-color coded
•Instruction Sheets about
Naviance, College
Planning, Career
Planning, along with
scholarship applications
•Show me the Money
Wednesday Workshops during
lunch
•The Money Tree
•No Money Left Behind Financial
Aid Seminars December-March
•Lessons Learned Weekly
Newsletter

15. Framed Success
•Print pictures on
transparencies and then
make frames out of
butcher paper.
•Hang up College
Acceptance Letters
•Pictures of staff on
College T-Shirt days
•Pictures of all College
and Career Center
Events

16. College Cram Sessions
• One day cram
session by grades at
each semester
break
• Naviance in
a Nutshell
• $25
• (Pays for my fun)
College Boot Camps
• 4 day sessions
• Educate on
everything under
the sun in Naviance
• $50
• Parents invited.

17. Your Staff needs YOU too!
• Teacher Tea Times
• Wednesday Walks
– Hand out supplies-
Markers, Expos, Highlighters, Post
It Notes, etc
• Teach for the Day
• Not just another College T-Shirt Day
– Take pictures!

18. Wednesday Walks

19. Look Around
• Empty Nest Prep Luncheon for Senior
Parents
• Junior Conferences
• Sponsor a table at Community Events
• Newspaper Editor should be your BFF
• When was the last time you drove around
where your students live?

20. So what can you do?
•Look at the
Sheets &
Pick 3 ideas
You could
Take back To
your School.
GO!

21. Social Media & YOU!
• To see all the LINKS
NOW, go to
http://texascollegelady.
blogspot.com/
GOAL: Pick 3 you
could use as a
counselor!

22. My Favorites
• Remind101.com Sends Text messages to
your students, can break down by
grade, class, needs, game plans, etc.
Students subscribe to it. (Texas
@collegean to (720)924-4387)
• Twitter: Follow colleges, scholarship
organizations, test preps, school
districts, etc
(www.twitter.com/txcollegelady)

23. • Facebook:
www.facebook.com/texascollegelady
• Website: www.magnoliaisd.org/ccc
• Blog: http://texascollegelady.blogspot.com/
• Pinterest:
http://pinterest.com/cstarstephenson/colle
ge-planning/

24. Outside the Box
• http://knitterchat.com/ Stitching ideas through
webbed conversation
• http://flipboard.com/ Flipboard is your
personal magazine, filled with the things you
care about.
• http://www.instagram.com Pictures!
• http://www.instagrok.com GO!
• QR Codes- Download APP on phone!

25. Yes there is more!
• http://twijector.com/go/college (Twitter)
• http://www.tweetdeck.com (Twitter)
• http://www.edmodo.com/
• http://cel.ly/about (Text Messages)
• http://paper.li/ (Publish newsletters off
your Tweets)
• https://www.edsurge.com/
• http://www.acceptly.com/

26. It’s the little things
• It only takes one thing to
change a person’s life
forever. What will it be? I
am not sure but I do
know one thing for
sure, I am willing to try a
thousand
different, crazy, outside
the box ideas to reach
that one!

27. Chelette Stephenson
Director of College Counseling and
Alumni Services
Yes Prep North Central
chelette.stephenson@yesprep.org
texascollegelady@yahoo.com
832-492-7024

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