Getting to Know Family Connection for Nyack High School Students

Getting to Know Family Connection for Nyack High School Students

Hello and Welcome to Family Connection! I am here to guide and to assist you. 2

Family Connection Nyack High School is 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 career college and post high school plans, so it provides up-to-date information that is specific to our school. The following slides provide an overview of Family Connection. 3

Using Family Connection An On-line Resource for Students and Parents for Post High School Planning & Advising 4

Overview What is Family Connection? What Can Students and Parents Do Using Family Connection? How do you access Family Connection? How do you register for Family Connection? How does it help with career, college and post high school planning? 5

What is it? A web-based resource for students and parents that encourages and supports post high school, career and college planning. Family Connection is specific to Nyack High School. Family Connection is linked with Naviance Succeed, a service that is used in the Nyack High School Guidance Office 6

WHAT CAN STUDENTS AND PARENTS DO USING FAMILY CONNECTION? View guidance news bulletins Create a résumé View college visits and sign up Complete college searches Develop a prospective college list Search for scholarships; over a hundred national scholarships are available Maintain journal entries Complete a Game Plan Survey Complete school developed surveys Compare colleges Links to a number of resources (i.e. College Board, Financial Aid, NCAA, Careers, College searches, etc.) Track deadlines 7

Features Available to Students and Parents Using Family Connection The following slides highlight some of the features in Family Connection Using Family Connection, you will see me, the NaviGator 8

How is it accessed? Family Connection is web-based Student Registration http://connection.naviance.com/nlhs Enter User Name: Your Power School Username Password: Your Power School Password This slide and the next slides will show you how to register and log into Family Connection. Start with information above. 9

Sign-in Page Enter your username and password 10

After Registration The following slides will highlight the features in Naviance you will be to access and explore after you register. Remember, the more you put into this system, the more you will benefit from it! 11

After You Sign in Click on the Tabs Updates from the Guidance Office Important Messages 12

Family Connection Overview: Welcome Page

Family Connection Overview: About Me

Family Connection Activity: Build Resume To start resume building, go to the about me tab Then click on the resume link Updating your Resume helps your counselor get to know you better **Please remember to update your Resume frequently!**

Family Connection Activity: Build Resume Step 1: Add entries: Objective Volunteer Experience Miscellaneous Step 2: Create print format by selecting entries for your resume Step 3: Print resume

Family Connection Overview: Careers

Family Connection Activity: Complete Career Assessments 1. Click on 2. Then click on assessment links to complete Personality Type Career Interest Profiler Career Key Cluster Finder The Do What You Are assessment uses the Myers- Briggs personality types to suggest careers & clusters. Identifies career interests based on Holland Interest Codes. Identifies career interests based on Holland Interest Codes. Identifies career clusters based on interests, personal qualities and school subjects. For High Schools For High Schools For Middle Schools For High Schools & Middle Schools

Family Connection Activity: Research Careers 1. Click on 2. Then click on 3. And start exploring! Careers Clusters Pathways Related Careers Wage Data Skills Job related tasks 4. Add favorite careers to your career list using the add to my list link

Family Connection Overview: Colleges

Family Connection Activity: Research Colleges Family Connection makes college research easy and informative There are 10 tools in the college research area that students can use to find colleges

Family Connection Activity: Research Colleges Advanced college search helps to narrow down your criteria and results When you find a college you like, add the college to your college list

Under the Colleges tab you can explore local and national summer enrichment programs Family Connection Overview: Enrichment Programs

Family Connection Overview: Scholarships Scholarship information is also on the colleges tab Scholarship Match Scholarship List National Scholarships Scholarship Applications Shows best scholarship matches from your district/school scholarship list. Shows your district/school scholarship list. Use the categories to search for scholarships. Provides a link to Sallie Mae s National Scholarship search engine. Use this search to find scholarships outside your school/district list. Track your scholarship applications and request supporting documents from your counseling office.

Reminder, use Family Connection consistently! For more information, please contact your guidance counselor Remember, the more you put into this system, the more you will benefit from it! Bye If you have any questions about Family Connection please contact your counselor I hope I will see you again real soon!