by Jeff Ream | Mar 29, 2015 | Counseling Tech, Featured, Naviance, school counselor, technology, tools
…start The Road to Naviance – Part 2: Getting the ball rolling The Road to Naviance: Part 3 – Training The Road to Naviance – A One Year Review Going on year three – we are starting to see results! To be fair and completely honest – my school is really only at about year 1.5 of true implementation school-wide. However, in that one and a half years, we have made some good strides towards students engagement, figuring out how to use the different fe…
by Jeff Ream | Jan 18, 2014 | counseling, Counseling Tech, Naviance, research, Review
…One of the first things I asked the superintendent was if he had heard of Naviance. Much to my pleasure – his last district used it and he used to be in the tech industry (score!). The fall of my first year (first year paid counseling job as well), I wrote and was awarded a grant to bring in Naviance district wide. The grant funded us for a year (basically the startup costs and year one student fees) and I am grateful to the district for picking…
by Jeff Ream | Oct 2, 2012 | 21st century skills, Counseling Tech, geek, learning software, Naviance, school counselor, technology, thecounselinggeek
…ing this news was great! Over the next few weeks, I had conversed with the Naviance sales rep and got some updates on questions. I also worked on my grant to help fund the program. This grant will be crucial to getting Naviance onboard at the district level. I have gotten unofficial word that we can find some funds to put it at my site, but without this grant – we may not be able to implement Naviance district-wide. I would love to pilot the progr…
by Jeff Ream | Sep 13, 2012 | 21st century skills, Counseling Tech, Naviance, research, technology, thecounselinggeek, tips
…acted Daniel Obregon (@dobregon), the marketing VP of Hobson (the maker of Naviance) and a PLN mate, asking for some help with finding data to validate some of my reasons for desiring Naviance. He was able to provide strong support and recent articles showcasing schools’ success stories. Next week, I meet with my principal and submit my grant proposal for funding. I will let you know how it goes and I am hoping to get Naviance up and running withi…
by Jeff Ream | Mar 8, 2013 | 21st century skills, classroom tools, Counseling Tech, counseling technology series, learning software, Naviance, school counselor, STEM, technology
…got my wheels turning regarding all the possibilities that will come from Naviance and how much it will help our students and families. One suggestion to Hobsons / Naviance: it would be helpful and I feel you would get more clients if you made a demo account available to play with for schools and districts to see the features in action. It would have been easier to convince administrators by showing them the features that telling them about all t…
by Jeff Ream | May 24, 2019 | Featured
…will pay more for it. The winery will then sell the excess off as another label or to another company to bottle it under their label (as TJ’s does). You may say that you actually LIKE the cheaper wine (if you’ve ever been to a blind wine tasting – you know how that usually goes), but from a marketing and branding perspective – if there are a few TJ’s selling a $50 label for $15 – it diminishes not only the demand, but makes you question why we ar…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 12, 2012 | counseling, follow up, interview, portfolio, pro-d, professional development, support
…abel developer to integrate the background from my portfolio onto the disc label. I printed address labels with the title of the disc and my contact info to put on the jacket. I am pretty happy with the turn out. 3. Letters of Recommendation: I included the standard three letters in all of the packets so they could reference them if needed or see further evidence that supports my candidacy. 4. My Notepad: I always bring my schnazzy note pad to tak…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 2, 2016 | Featured, #scchat, free, school counselor, tips
…ier each year. Some of you may have it even easier if you have a tool like Naviance. With Naviance, I simply have it prepare and print labels for any school that a student applied to in the last 10 years. It spits out just under 200 different schools from down the road to France and lets me put them on mailing labels really easily. Now if you don’t have Naviance, like I didn’t the first year I did this, I actually sent out the letter via email. I…
by Jeff Ream | May 17, 2014 | Featured
…the tool is how action oriented it is. You can create categories and then label them as “decision” “action” “info” etc. This lets people reviewing minutes later have a much more streamlined approach to find out what needs to happen. From that, you can also assign specific people to tasks and give them a deadline all within the same line. At the end of the meeting, if you have added all members names and email addresses to the meeting, all you nee…
by Jeff Ream | May 8, 2017 | Featured, counseling
…you use on a regular basis (on a laptop or mobile device): Twitter, Excel, Naviance, Tyler & Tyler Pulse (our school data reporting system). I also love my scanner. It allows me to keep so much info that I do not have to file. I really try to minimize paper in my workspace. Describe your workspace: Bright office with purple walls, several (real) plants, lots of student artwork and a neat desk. I enjoy sentimental clutter, but I do not enjoy excess…
