THE POWER OF NAVIANCE

WPS60 Waukegan High School Waukegan, ILCharmaine Harris, Ph.D.

Principal, College Studies Program

College and Career Chair

The Power of Naviance

Waukegan Public School District 60www.wps60.org

“A New Day…A New Way in Waukegan Schools students first!”

WPS60 is a unified (Pre-K to 12) school district located in Waukegan, IL a community of 90,000 residents situated on Lake Michigan, just south of the Wisconsin border.

WPS60 enrolls nearly 17,000 students and is comprised of 15(ES), 5(MS), and 1(HS).

Student population predominately Hispanic, African American, and Caucasian.

WHS AT A GLANCE

WHS is comprised of two campuses that enrolls 4000+ students, grades 9 – 12 with faculty, staff, and administration of 400+.

WHS is organized into Smaller Learning Communities (SLCs) designed to provide students and their families with a more attentive and supportive teaching and learning environment.

WHS has 10* Houses, with 400-600 students per House grades 9-12. Each House is staffed with: Principal (1), Assistant Principal (1), Guidance Counselor (2), Social Worker(1), Secretary(1), and Teachers (25-30)

*2 Houses are College Studies and require students to apply for enrollment.

WHO ARE THE BULLDOGS(All information taken from WPS60 website)

Race/Ethnicity: Hispanic 72.3% African American 18.6% Caucasian 5.3%

Low SES: 66.3%

Limited English Proficient: 8.7%

Daily Attendance: 92.3%

Graduation Rate: 70.9%* State Average: 82.3%

ACT Average: 16.5* State Average: 20.6%

*Class of 2012

Our College and Career Culture

LESS THAN 20% of our graduates pursue and/or engage with post secondary education options.

Our Charge To strengthen our college and career going culture within the ENTIRE high school population. Includes faculty, staff, and students.

Our Message ALL students are worthy ALL students capable ALL students have dreams and aspirations ALL students require GUIDANCE, SUPPORT, and ENCOURAGEMENT to realize their dreams and and aspirations.

Our Priority

Developing College and Career Service mission and vision.Increase visibility in order to increase awareness of services provided via:

College and Career Counseling CentersCUBE and Hewitt

Appointment of College and Career ChairCore Team:

College CounselorsCollege and Career InternsInternal and External Service Providers

IL College Advising Corps, Educational Talent Search, Schuler Scholars, College of Lake County Waukegan 2 College…… Community Partnerships (College Culture Committee)

Boy Scouts of America, Robert Morris University, Waukegan Public Library, University Center of Lake County……

Initiation of regular programming focused on college and career service awareness:

Our Plan

Introduction of THE POWER OF NAVIANCE to ALL students grades 9-12 during the 2012-13 school year.

Naviance Planning Group established to undertake Operation GET IT DONE!!!!!!!

Communicate the urgency ALL DAY EVERDAY, EVERYWHERE……

To faculty, staff, and administration through mailbox meetings, group/individual presentations and trainings

To students and families through cafeteria presentations, invitations to college programs, PA announcements, information tables at school events

Our Success

ALL Support Staff granted access and trained to deliver Naviance to students

ALL Students granted access and trained to navigate Naviance.

Lesson Plans developed to support House based implementation

Naviance Calendars developed to insure that progress coordinated throughout school calendar

Integration of Naviance tasks into daily school practice with incentives, such as Naviance Popcorn Days, Senior Survey

On Our Way

THE CLASS of 2013…….

Our largest class in school history 1,003 Graduates Our graduates earned HONORS DISTINCTION 241

Our graduates in National Honor Society 70

Our FIRST Gates Millenium Scholar

Our graduates earned 9.5 million scholarship dollars

Our graduates will attend 90 different colleges throughout 20 states

Our Future

Guidance Counselor leadership (via House)

Increase usage efficiency via support for WPS60 Info Tech Dept. and Naviance Client Support

Integration of additional Naviance products: eDocs, Alumni Tracker, CaptainU, ACT PrepMe

Middle School Pilot Projects

THE POWER OF NAVIANCE has transformed our school culture into one where faculty, staff, students, and their families are BELIEVING and SEEING that life after high school for our graduates includes college and career success!!!

Contact Information

Dr. Charmaine Harris Principal College Studies Program College and Career Chair

Waukegan High School Washington Campus 1011 Washington Street Waukegan, IL 60085

charris@wps60.org

847.599.4063 Office 224.588.0768 Cell

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