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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Topic of the Month - February

What is Naviance - Family Connection?

Naviance - Family Connection is a one-stop shop to post-secondary planning, career exploration, and personal investigation.  It has a ton of features that can be accessed throughout your students high school career to provide you and your student with a wealth of information.  There are aspects appropriate to each grade, and we encourage students to explore and utilize Naviance - Family Connection as a tool to make planning for their future fun and exciting.    

Here is a brief summary of the different sections

About Me Tab - 

  • Complete inventories that link to careers, majors, and colleges
  • Build a resume
  • Access your GPA, test scores (PSAT, SAT, ACT, AP), and decile (available to some grade levels)


My Planner Tab -

  • Create future goals and to-do lists with regards to academic success and post-secondary planning.


Career Tab - 

  • Explore career options 
  • Complete Personality Type and Career Inventories that link to various majors, careers, and colleges.
  • Explore Road Trip Nation 
    • Based on general searches or your specific interests, link to different leaders who provide short interviews about their career choice.


College Tab - 

  • Search Colleges
  • Store searches, lists of schools of interest, and those that you may eventually apply to in the future.
  • Look at statistics relevant to Silver Lake, including 
    • Acceptance History - shows what schools Silver Lake students have been accepted to over the last 8-10 years.
    • Scattergrams - compares your statistics (GPA and SAT Scores if appropriate based on grade) to other Silver Lake students who have applied to a particular school
  • Search Enrichment Programs and access College Resources 
Please contact me if you need your Registration Code or your password reset.