Integrating Naviance into Site and District Strategic Planning

Integrating Naviance into Site and District Strategic Planning

Presenter: Bruce ArmesSan Juan Unified School District

Thursday, July 11, 2013

1:45 PM to 2:45 PM



• Cover SJUSD journey with Strategic Planning

• Naviance’s use in SJUSD Strategic Planning

• Your Strategic Planning

• How Naviance can be viewed differently

• Sharing and Q&A


San Juan Unified School District• 9 -High School Schools• 8 -Middle Schools • 7 -K-8 Schools• 42 –Elementary Schools• Plus Alterative Schools

Located eastern suburbs of Sacramento, CA

Covers 88 Square miles

Webpage: www.sanjuan.edu


SJUSD Strategic Planning Timeline:

January 2009: 30-Member Planning Team

Feb. – May 2009: Action Teams

June 2009: Board Approves Plan (2010-2015)

April 2012: Updated

Mission: Valuing diversity and excellence, the San Juan Unified School District’s mission is to educate and inspire each student to succeed and responsibly contribute to a radically evolving world by providing innovative, rigorous, student-focused instruction and programs in a safe, caring, collaborative learning community.


Strategy 4:

We will design and implement a system that creates challenging personal educational plans at each appropriate level in collaboration with students, families and staff.

Action Plan 2:

Evaluate and implement an online, interactive tool which allows students to plan their academic, activities, and other experiences, in collaboration with families and staff


What was our intentionality?

“… each student to succeed and responsibly contribute to a radically evolving world, …”


What is your intentionality?

How will students be different from using Naviance?



• Where does Naviance fit, beyond what it was originally purchased for?

• Does Naviance have abilities to perform tasks in your school or district that you haven’t thought of?

• Can features within Naviance be used differently?

• How will it enhance assessment and evaluation?


Assessment and Evaluation

•Care about data and review it

•Develop a plan for your reporting needs

•Identification of items to be measured

•What benchmarks are needed?

•How are you going to report back and to whom?


PLANNING, PLANNING, PLANNING

•Determine the items to focus on

•Staff development around specific implementations

•Be honest about what cannot be done

•Understand your site and district needs

•Be creative


• Finding where Naviance fixes as a tool to work in support of the Strategic Plan

• Identify and Engaging Key players

• Setting a timeline to address Key Points

• Developing a relationship with Hobsons Staff


Key Players:

• District School Counselors• District Teachers• Site Administrators• Parents/Students• District Technology (IT)• District Assessment and Evaluation• District Office Administrators• District’s Board of Education• Hobsons StaffPlus others you haven’t thought about


• Questions?

• Discussion

Contact information:

Bruce ArmesLead CounselorSan Juan Unified School District

[email protected](916) 971-7165

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