How Family Connection Can Support Your Junior PostSecondary Efforts

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How Family Connection Can Support Your Junior
Post-Secondary Efforts

• Overview and Best Practices
• Nassau BOCES

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Features of Family Connection to Consider

• Promote your evening program
• Bulk email capabilities
• Place a message on your Welcome Page
• Create a custom html page
• Post date, time and location
• Put your outline and Power Point presentation on
  Family Connection

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Activities for Juniors

• College research using College View data in
  Family Connection
• Career exploration with DWYA and Career Planner
• LSI- understand how students learn

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Activities continued

• Students keep track of prospective colleges in
  My Colleges
• Career interest results can be kept in My Careers
• Utilize Journal features
• Student can keep track of activities view as an
  electronic binder
• Can share information with teachers, counselors
  and parents

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Activities continued

• Create a resume
• Basic feature to store information
• Complete My Game Plan
• Give students the opportunity to think about
  their plans and goals
• Complete custom surveys
• Gather information on their needs or opinions of
  guidance programs
• Autobiographical sketches or brag sheets
• Pre/post surveys on guidance activities

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Counselor activities

• Research colleges and share them with juniors via
  WorkspaceK12
• Assist students to understand assessments
• DWYA/Career Planner
• LSI

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Counselor activities continued

• Place content on Family Connection
• Welcome page for juniors
• Custom html pages with critical information-make
  it a one-stop shop!
• Summary of articles
• Videos
• List of links to investigate
• Instructions for juniors and parents
• Lesson plans and presentations from evening
  programs

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Counselor activities continued

• Add to My Documents
• Set up Milestones
• Shows up as My Checklist on Family Connection
• Load data
• SAT/ACT data
• Student GPA data
• Data will show up on Scattergrams

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Counselor activities continued

• Prepare College Visit data for next fall
• List summer programs in Family Connection
• Add Scholarship data to Family Connection

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What some Counselors are doing

• Sample screen shots illustrating some
  WorkspaceK12 Family Connection sites

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Many possibilities

• Start slow
• Introduce your juniors to the program so that
  they are ready to use it their senior year
• Increase usage
• Bring in content from your current web site to
  Family Connection
• Make Family Connection the one stop shop
• Work with teachers-many are currently doing
  lessons that can be supported by Family Connection

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Think about

• Family Connection as one way to promote your
  evening programs and classroom activities
• Family Connection as a place to present quality
  content to families
• Family Connections college data base and
  assessments
• Family Connection as a tool to elevate your
  students access to information and improve
  communication between the school and home

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Questions/Comments about Family Connection
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Where to go now?

• Consider establishing a CPLC
• Naviance and Matt can help to establish more
  regular meetings to discuss how to best implement
  WorkspaceK12
• Naviances relationship with ASCA

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Thank You