Parent Teacher Magazine Union County Public Schools Sept/Oct 2017 | Page 7
Back to School: Naviance helps students jumpstart college and career readiness
Thanks to Naviance, a college and career readiness
software, students as young as 11 years old will soon be able
to get a head start on planning for their future.
Naviance, which will be provided at no cost to UCPS families, will
ultimately help students identify their strengths, explore career
interests and create education plans for high school and beyond.
Thanks to Naviance, a college and career readiness
software, students as young as 11 years old will soon be able
to get a head start on planning for their future. The software
– which will be provided at no cost to UCPS families – will
ultimately help students identify their strengths, explore
career interests and create education plans for high school and
beyond.
“It’s important to provide students with access to be able to
explore college and career options early on, beginning in middle
school and moving forward to help chart their pathway,” said
Robert Filter, UCPS Director of Career Readiness.
For students, Naviance will help them plan for and achieve
their post-secondary goals through career exploration and
academic planning. Parents will also be able to log into their
students’ accounts to participate in the academic and post-
secondary planning process.
Teachers and principals will be able to use the data-tracking
tools to learn more about their students’ college acceptance
rates, career interests and more – all of which is important to
helping them find ways to match the school’s long-term goals
with actionable plans. And for school counselors, Naviance allows
them to assist students with planning high school courses and
post-secondary options that best fit their individual strengths,
personalities and plans for the future.
“I’m excited about the fact that this will provide students
with specific tools to help them be more strategic about their
high school career,” said UCPS Director of College Readiness and
Innovation Jessica Garner. “And it will help them consider what
path they want to take to prepare them for what they want to do
for the rest of their lives.”
Naviance will be implemented in middle and high schools this
fall.
—This article was provided by the Union County Public
Schools Communications Office.
In middle school, students will have access to:
• Career Key, an online career assessment that
allows students to view careers related to their
interests
• Learning Style Inventory, an assessment that will
help boost their academic potential by having
students recognize their learning style,
discover better learning strategies and gain
career development skills
• Career Cluster Finder, a questionnaire that
helps students discover career clusters that are
most interesting to them
In high school, students will have access to:
• Strengths Explorer, a strengths assessment
that identifies each students’ three strongest
emerging talents and helps them identify what
they need to do to continue building on their
strengths
• Career Interest Profiler, a career interest
assessment that matches students’ interests with
activities and/or occupations
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