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Guide to Naviance

Overview of Naviance Succeed! (Family Connection) for Middle School Students and Families

LMSD middle school counselors are pleased to introduce Family Connection from Naviance Succeed! Family Connection is a web-based service designed specifically to assist students in becoming college and career ready through self-exploration. All of these exploratory activities are developmentally appropriate and follow the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) student competencies. ASCA is the foremost authority on best practices for school counselors.

One benefit of Naviance is that it allows students to take a Learning Style Inventory in school to gain insight about how they most effectively learn and study. A second feature of Naviance is a Resume Builder tool. Resume Builder allows students to keep an electronic record of their skills, achievements, and interests. Students also use Naviance to take the Career Key test which matches students' personality types, based on Holland's Codes, with potential careers. These exploratory activities facilitate the process of students understanding themselves in the context of high school course selection, college planning, and ultimately finding career satisfaction.

We encourage you to review the results of your child's Career Key Test and Learning Styles Inventory with him/her. The website can be accessed at the links below:

Family Connection supplements the middle-to-high school transition process.

  • The results of The Career Key, Learning Styles Inventory and Resume Builder activities completed in middle school will travel with students to the high school via an electronic portfolio.
  • Students will become familiar with Naviance in middle school, thus easing its use as a tool that both LMSD high schools are using for college and career readiness.

We hope that you find this resource helpful and encourage you to contact your grade-level school counselor with questions.

Log on Directions for Naviance

For Student Access

Your child will be given his/her access information by the school counselor.

For Family Access

  1. Have your registration code handy that your school provided you with
  2. Navigate to your school's Naviance Student web page
  3. From the school's Naviance Student login page, select I'm new and need to register!
  4. Enter the registration code you were provided in the Registration Code field and then select Register.
  5. Enter a Username, Password, and Password Confirmation and then select CONTINUE.  Your username is the email linked to your PowerSchool account
  6. Click Continue to return to the Naviance Student login page.
  7. From the Naviance Student login page, select Student or one of the other classifications.
  8. From the login page, enter the email or username and password that you just created and then select CONTINUE to log in.

Each year we send registration codes via email to all new (to the district and entering 6th grade) families using the email address supplied when they enrolled their child in LMSD.  New families should follow the directions above after receiving registration codes.  If you have already registered an account from a previous school year, you do not need to take additional steps. 

Note:  Naviance requires families to set up separate accounts for children in different LMSD schools. Families that indicate that they do not have internet access will be mailed their registration codes.

Summary of Learning Activities Using Naviance Succeed!

Pennsylvania Department of Education Career Education & Work Standards

Essential Questions

  1. What are my unique interests, aptitudes, and abilities?
  2. What careers would fit my unique interests, aptitudes and abilities?
  3. How do changes in the global economy effect the career world?
  4. How do changes in the world effect my career options and choices?
  5. What is a lifelong learning?
  6. How will lifelong learning play a part in my career journey?
  7. What high school courses will best prepare me for my career journey?
  8. Will post-secondary education improve my career opportunities?

Grade 6/7 Competencies

  1. Describe the influences that impact personal career choices.
  2. Locate, evaluate, and interpret career information.
  3. Given examples of traditional and nontraditional careers, explain how they might offer or hinder career opportunities of an individual.
  4. Compare the types of employment opportunities available after graduation from several different training programs.
  5. Given an occupation, identify some economic factors that would have an impact on it.
  6. Given an occupation, identify some school subjects, extracurricular activities, and community experiences that would positively affect preparation.
  7. Create an individualized career plan such as a career portfolio.
  8. Identify several personal electives and extracurricular activities that match your personal career interests, abilities and academic strength.
  9. Select course work that supports career interests.

Grade 8 Competencies

  1. Factors that impact career choices.
  2. How change in a person's life and environment impacts career choices.
  3. Varieties of traditional and nontraditional careers.
  4. Sources of information about the types of employment opportunities available after graduation from a career training program.
  5. Economic factors impact employment opportunities.
  6. Effect of school subjects, extracurricular activities and community experiences on career preparation.
  7. Components of a career plan.
  8. Types of educational and training opportunities that  are available to prepare for careers.
  9. The relationship of career interests to career choice.
  10. The part a systematic plan plays in successful career planning.
  11. The importance of educational plans to successful career choice.