Policymakers have been focused on improving high school completion rates, but now college readiness, retention and success have increasingly become a critical goal and accountability metric.
Over 30 states currently have policies to support the implementation of individualized college and career plans. Many more are implementing strategies to increase participation in AP, IB and other rigorous course offerings; or are implementing diagnostic assessments, vertical teaming and other professional development strategies to create a college going culture. Nevertheless, achieving the goals of these policies requires supporting students – not just with ‘college planning’ and information, but the development and implementation of individualized learning plans that incorporate student-level data in real time; and then capture meaningful data to inform state level policy-making. Naviance unique capabilities support state policymakers in collecting, interpreting, utilizing and sharing meaningful data about student success within individualized learning plans across the P20 spectrum.
Naviance Succeed is the essential tool in that it:
- Provides the framework to support the process of individualized planning that helps student understand early in their education that their course selection and academic performance will affect the likelihood that they enter into and succeed in college.
- Utilizes data from the local Student Information Systems to support data-driven, individualized student plans while capturing data that can be fed into a P20 LDS at the state level.
- Creates an ongoing dialogue between students, educators, counselors and parents to enable them to correct each students’ plan on an ongoing basis, based on real-time insight in order to select the right courses in middle and high school or choose a college that will be the right fit.
Over 2 million college applications and transcripts were sent through Naviance last year. Naviance currently reaches over 5 million students, in 1300 districts and 5,400 schools, across 47 states.
Naviance Succeed expands the scope of monitoring student success and gives you the tools to look beyond the narrow lens of standardized test scores—enabling schools to capture detailed data about student goals, school climate, academic expectations, course trends and achievement. This early warning system identifies whether students are on-track with their individualized success plans and intermediate goals long before the challenges of testing day.
Our wide range of capabilities is why many teachers, counselors, administrators and families use Naviance Succeed on a daily basis to collaborate, monitor progress and guide each student on the path to student success.
Many states have adopted policies that include Naviance:
Minnesota Department of Higher Education partnered with Naviance to implement a college and career planning initiative funded under the US Department of Education’s College Access Challenge Grant program. Initiated in the Fall of 2008, the program now reaches 132 public schools.
New Jersey Department of Education has implemented Naviance as a pilot program designed to create a formalized plan and process that involves students setting learning goals based on personal, academic and career interests, beginning in the middle school grades and continuing throughout high school. (N.J.A.C. 6A:8)
In Colorado, over 70% of students are currently enrolled in Naviance to help implement the states ICAP or individual learning plan requirement.
Ron Johnson; Principal
Hutchinson Public School District credits college retention to use of Naviance Succeed. Hutchinson High School already had a very high percentage of graduates choosing college, but after using Naviance to build 4-year plans and increase communications, Hutchinson saw a 15% increase in the number of students who stayed at their initial college.
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