Hear details of a comprehensive implementation plan within a diverse urban school using Naviance and Family Connection to support student success plans for grade 6-12 as well as how they leveraged partners in the community to create success.
3. NAVIANCE SUMMER INSTITUTE 2014 | PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA
A Partnership to Student
Success - Grades 6-12
Comprehensive overview from a diverse urban
school district using Naviance Family Connection to
support Student Success Plans grade 6-12.
Carolyn Conte, SPS-SPEF
Naviance Liaison
Tiffany Russo, MSEd. C.A.S.,
School Counselor and College
Planning Center Coordinator
July 2014
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Stamford Public Schools and SPEF
• 16,000 students 1,500 professionals
• 12 elementary schools, five middle schools
and three high schools.
• six magnet and two International
Baccalaureate schools
• Population 2012: 125,109
• 30 Miles from New York City
• Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk CT Metro Area• Supports literacy initiatives in
elementary school and college and
career readiness in middle and high
schools.
• 250 students in the mentoring program
in grades six through eleven
• Naviance workshops for struggling 9th
and 10th grade students
• Accuplacer testing for 11th grade
student
• Parent and family training
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SHS Demographics
Focus on Stamford High School
34%
32%
28%
4% White
Hispanic/Latino
Black/African
American
Asian
Other
35%
Free/Reduced
Lunch
10% ELL
(Spanish and
Haitian Creole)
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Focus on Stamford High School
58%25%
7% 10%
Post Secondary Plans
Four-Year College
Two-Year College
Vocational/Trade
School
Military or
Employment
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What is a SSP?
Stamford Public Schools – Student Success Plans (SSP)
A SSP is an individualized
student driven plan
developed to address every
student's needs and interests
to help them stay connected
in school and to achieve
postsecondary educational
and career goals.
Components:
academic
career
personal/social emotional
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How Did We Get Here?
-Collaboration SPS & SPEF
-Best practice
-Hard work, persistence
-Goals
-Delivery to Students
-Parental/Family
-Community Engagement
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Emailing
• Counselors, teachers, advisors
• Creation of groups
• Upward Bound, Class of …, Algebra 2, etc.
• Weekly newsletter and reminders (scholarship,
survey, college visits, deadlines, etc)
• Automated emailing