1. Using NAVIANCE Family Connection 8th Grade
DMMS
Ms. Shanks, School Counselor

2. Overview What is Naviance? How do I access it?
How will I utilize Family Connection?
How will Family Connection assist with my future planning?

3. What is Family Connection?
Web-based resource that supports course, career and college planning
Specific to our school and district
Any career searches on Naviance will travel with you to West High School

4. What can I do? Explore Colleges and Careers Complete surveys
Set goals for yourself
Monitor to do lists
Plan Courses (High School)
College Planning Tools (High School)
Request and track transcripts (High School)
Connect with your counselor –Ms. Shanks

5. 8th Grade Family Connection Activities
Introduction to Family Connection
September
Career Cluster Finder
1st semester in FACS
Career Activity
1st Semester in FACS
EXPLORE Survey Activity
To be determined (when we receive EXPLORE results)
High School Transition Survey
Spring

6. How is it accessed? Access Family Connection at:
This is also located as a link on the DMMS home page
Log in!
First time? Enter your user code given to you
Registered use your Google and password

7. Log in to Family Connection

8. VERY IMPORTANT! USE YOUR ISD 77 GOOGLE EMAIL AND PASSWORD
Example username:
Remember this is the entire address!
Password is your Google password
ASK MS. SHANKS IF YOU NEED YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD

9. Family Connection Home Page

10. Career Cluster Finder

11. CAREER CLUSTERS
Career clusters are a grouping of occupations and broad industries into 16 clusters that are based on common knowledge and skills
Career clusters include hundreds of occupations grouped into pathways around which educational programs of study can be built

12. CAREER PATHWAYS
Career pathways represent an organization of related occupational areas within a specific career cluster
Each of these pathways has identified knowledge and skills based on industry from which programs and programs of study are developed.

13. From Cluster to Career CAREER CLUSTER CAREER PATHWAY SPECIFIC CAREER
eg. Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources
CAREER PATHWAY
eg. Power, Structural, and Technical Systems
SPECIFIC CAREER
e.g. Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians

14. MN Career Clusters & Pathways

15. Career Cluster Finder Once you have your results:
Identify your top 2-4 career clusters
Identify a pathway in each cluster
Add these to your Naviance favorites list by clicking: add to my list
Then look up specific careers in these pathways and complete the Naviance worksheet. You can save specific careers to your favorites list.

16. Explore Colleges & Careers: Career Profiles

17. Search for Colleges & Careers: College Profile

18. How does it help? Shared resource linking home to school
On-line tool for collaboration among counselors, students, and parents
Accurate, complete records about student choices from our school
Reliable career assessments
Comprehensive storage of student course, career and college data

19. Questions For more information, please contact:
Ms. Shanks, School Counselor at DMMS