Welcome to Senior Year
 Jostens
 Senior All-Night Party
 Graduation Requirements
 College Application Process: Clarifying Roles
 Student PPT
 Counselor Panel Q and A
Graduation Dates
 June 10 at the Memorial Coliseum in the Rose Quarter
at 8pm.
 Students get tickets after Senior Check out when books
returned and all fines paid.
 Families get 10 tickets, more are available if needed.
 Senior class meeting, October 26th, Friday flex.
Jostens – Got a cap and gown?
 Dan Peters is your contact 503-690-7488
 Friday, October 26th – Ordering packets available
 Cap, gown, tassel = $24.75
 Monday, Nov 5th – Orders taken
 December 7th – Deadline for Group Orders
 Talk to your counselor if paying for a cap and gown is
an issue.
Senior All-Night Party
 Great alcohol free, chaperoned event at an undisclosed location
for graduated seniors.
 Busses leave right after graduation at the Memorial Coliseum and
bring them back to Lincoln at 5am.
 Nothing but the clothes on their backs…Swimsuits need to be
dropped off at school prior.
 $100 for the party, scholarships are available.
 Our goal is 100% attendance…
 Party planning meeting on October 8 at 6pm, here.
 Contact: Janet Schroer or Sarah Fredericks at sfrederi@pps.net
Graduation Requirements
 Career Related Learning
Experience, CRLE
 Resume
 Essential Skills
 24 Credits
 Credit Recovery Options
College Application Process
 Counselor Role – Chris Barrar
 Parent Role – Annie Walsh
 Student Role – Neil Gibson
 Teacher Role – Danielle Parks
Senior Class Presentation - FALL 2012
 Naviance Family Connection log-in
 Graduation Requirement
 Document your CRLE (Graduation Requirement)
 Complete your Resume (Graduation Requirement)
 Essential Skills (Reading and Writing)
 Research your career interest and/or understand your personality better
 Find Scholarships
 Research Colleges and make a list.
 Request Letters of Rec from Teachers and Counselors
 Request Transcript
Sign in to Naviance Family Connection
Bikinibabe14@gmail.com
Superstud666@hotmail.com
• Parents can get there own
password from Meg Kilmer
• Complete the “Parent Brag
Sheet” on Naviance…if a
counselor rec required.
Home Screen
My Planner, Tasks, To-Do’s and Goals
 You will be assigned Tasks from Counselors, IB
Coordinator, Career Coordinators or PPS.
 You can create S.M.A.R.T. Goals.
 Use the To-Do list to keep track how you will achieve Goals
or achieve Tasks.
 Tasks show up:
 In My Planner
 Welcome page
 Email
 PRACTICE making a Goal and adding an item to your
To-Do List.
Graduation Requirement:
CRLE
Career Related Learning Experience
 Graduation Requirement
 Something that you want to explore…what are you
interested in?
 Job, job shadow, internship, career day/weekend.
 Ideas to get one? Go to “CRLE grad req” on home page
 How do I document it? Go to “about me”, CRLE reflection.
 PRACTICE: Explore options and add a couple
sentences about what you want to do in the CRLE
reflection.
Resume
 Graduation Requirement
 Needed for Counselor Letter of Recommendation
 Working Document
 Should be constantly updated and tweaked
 There is no one right way to do a Resume
 You can complete it using Naviance or upload
your own.
 PRACTICE: Add information into your
“education” field.
Career and Personality type
 Nosce te ipsum… Know thyself…
 Scary accurate most of the time
 Based on Meyers/Briggs and Holland Code
 May help with:
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Letters of recommendation
Job choices
College choices
Confidence
Becoming a better person
 PRACTICE: Start one of these and save your
answers, you can finish later.
Find Scholarships
 Start looking now
 Plan on completing the FAFSA Jan 1st.
 Sign up for OSAC scholarships
 1. Naviance under the “College” tab.
 2. LHS Scholarship website link:
 Counseling Page > College Planning, Financial Aid.
 PRACTICE: Go find the Scholarship page on Naviance
or LHS Scholarship page and look around.
Research Colleges
 In the “College” tab
 Research and search Colleges
 Check out the scattergrams with a grain of salt
 Add to: Colleges I’m thinking about.
 Email notices when they visit
 Add to: Colleges I’m applying to.
 These are the ones you also indicate on your blue sheet
 PRACTICE:
 Research a few schools,
 Check out the scattergrams
 Add them to the “Colleges I’m thinking about” list.
Letter of Recommendation - Counselor
HAND OUT COLLEGE HANDBOOK?
 Determine if you need one: It’s not always easy to find out.
 Call the Admissions Department.?
 Consider OUS programs, UO, SOU, OSU, WOU, EOU
 No Letter, some still have automatic acceptance
 Counselor Rec? Page 9-10
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Naviance “Request for Counselor Letter of Rec”
Fill out Blue Sheet, turn in to Counseling Office
Parents complete Brag Sheet!!!
Give out 3-5 copies of Teacher Eval forms page 13
Letter of Recommendation – TEACHER
 Page 11
 Not required of teachers. They may not have time or
reached capacity.
 Speak with Teacher in person.
 Could be any teacher that knows them well.
 Request on Naviance in “College’s I’m Applying to”
 Provide stamped and addressed envelope if needed
 Gratitude is the attitude! Send a thank you note.
TRANSCRIPT
 Private document
 Confirm it’s correct
 Request a transcript?
1. $1 per request
2. Clip Board on Jennifer V’s desk
3. Blue form if it’s to be sent with other documents
Q and A
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Let’s Talk about Stress
reduction!!!