1. Naviance/Family Connection
Avon Grove Charter School Presentation

2. Presentation Agenda Overview of what Naviance and Family Connection is
AGCS Goals for using Naviance and Family Connection
Overview of the different tools within Family Connection
Brief Tutorial on how to use Family Connection
Questions

3. What is Naviance & Family Connection?
Naviance is a comprehensive college and career readiness solution for middle and high schools that helps connect academic achievement to post-secondary goals.”
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4. So, how will Naviance & Family Connection help me?
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
Realistic assessments of your child’s chances of admission at colleges where prior graduates have applied
Career exploration

5. Family Connection
We are pleased to introduce Family Connection from Naviance, a web based service designed especially for students and parents. Family Connection is a comprehensive website that you and your child can use to help in making decisions about courses, colleges, and careers. Family Connection is linked with Naviance Succeed, a service that we use in our office to track and analyze data about college and career plans, so it provides up-to-date information that is specific to our school.
The following slides provide an overview of Family Connection.

6. Overview of what Students and Parents can do using Family Connection
View guidance news bulletins
Create a résumé
View college visits and sign up
Complete a college search
Develop a prospective college list
Provide access to scholarship search engines; over a hundred national scholarships are available
Maintain journal entries
Game Plan Survey
Complete school developed surveys
Compare colleges
Links to selected third party resources
(i.e. College Board, Financial Aid, NCAA, Careers, College searches, etc.)
Track deadlines
View scattergrams

7. Accessing Family Connection
Family Connection is web-based
Student accounts
Parent accounts

8. After you sign in…

9. Using Family Connection

10. College Planning in Family Connection

11. College Visits Page in Family Connection

12. College Profiles in Family Connection

13. Applications/Transcript Requests in Family Connection

14. Applications/Transcript Requests in Family Connection

15. Careers in Family Connection

16. Careers in Family Connection

17. Additional Functions Strengths and Personality Assessments
Career Roadmap
Task assigning abilities
Career and college readiness starting in 9th grade!

18. How to register?
Naviance link can be found on in the Guidance tab, under Naviance

19. Completing your registration

20. Questions?