Education Advances

Welcome

Craig Heldman | CEO Hobsons

College and Career Readiness Admissions and Enrollment Student Success and Advising

Hobsons helps students identify their strengths, explore careers, create academic plans, match to best-fit educational opportunities, and reach their education and life goals. Through our solutions, we enable thousands of educational institutions to improve college and career planning, admissions and enrollment management, student success and advising for millions of students around the globe.

 

 

 

What we do

Support for students and institutions across the education lifecycle

Advising and Student SuccessEarly alert, case management, communications, online scheduling, academic planning, and reporting.

Admissions and Enrollment ManagementProspect communications, event planning, inquiry managment, application processing, reporting and analytics.

College and Career ReadinessCollege and career exploration tools for K-12 students.

How we do it

Our Global Footprint 12,000+ institution

s

13 million students

100 countries

The Challenge

Bridging the Gap

ELIGIBILITY READINESS

READINESSMany students are not ready for the next step

ELIGIBILITYAny student with a high school diploma is technically eligible for college or a career

Bridging the Gap

ASPIRATIONS ACHIEVEMENT

ACHIEVEMENTAchievement falls short of those aspirations

ASPIRATIONSStudents and parents have high aspirations for college and careers

The Aspirations Gap

Percentage of middle school students who

aspire to go to college

Percentage of middle school students who

actually enroll

Percentage of first-time, full-time students who

complete an associate’s degree within 3 years

44%

Percentage of first-time, full-time students that complete a bachelor’s degree within 6 years

93% 31%59%

Source: Educational Policy Improvement Center Source: NCES

Where To Start?

The School Cliff: Students’ Engagement Drops Over Time% Engaged

ElementarySchool

Middle School

HighSchool

76

61

44

Impacting Engagement

Increase in likelihood of engagement

When schools increase engagement by one percentage point

30x

Percentage point increase in reading achievement

+6

When schools focus on student strengths and they have at least one teacher that makes them excited about the future

Percentage point increase in math achievement

+8

70% Engagement level of hopeful students When students have

hope for their future, their engagement levels rise significantly

Source: Gallup

High School Student to Counselor Ratio

471 : 1

The average high school student spends 20 minutes or less talking about postsecondary plans with a counselor per year.

Student success is not easy

Who am I?

How will I succeed?

What do I want to be?

How will I get there?

What do I care about? What are my talents? How do I learn?

Who will advocate for me?What resources will help me reach my goals?

Which career path will I enjoy?What education is required?

What’s my plan for success?Where should I go after high school?

Educators have similar struggles

Who are our students?

How do we knowwhat’s working?

How are we helping them?

What could wedo better?

The Solution

The Educator’s Perspective

Support All Students &

Families

Track & Measure Progress

Make Data-Driven Decisions

Provide all students with the same critical college and career

information

Identify students needing support and track results year-

over-year

Use data to determine results for specific students and

groups

Self-Discovery Career Exploration

Academic Planning

College Preparation

College and career readiness for all

• College Planning• Career Planning• Success Planning• Naviance eDocs• Naviance Alumni Tracker

• Naviance Course Planner• Naviance Curriculum• Naviance Test Prep

• AchieveWORKS• Career Key• x2VOL• Total Reader• Gallup Professional Development

Naviance Core Extended Modules Naviance Marketplace

A platform to meet all needs

Naviance Objectives

Improve

Student Engagement

Test Scores

College-Going Rates

Reduce

Drop Out Rates

Costs

Dormant Data

8+ MillionStudents utilizing Naviance

40%of US students have a Naviance account

10,000+Naviance schools

104Countries with Naviance schools

26 MillionApplication documents submitted via eDocs

“Naviance has given our counselors less reactive work and replaced it with a much more positive, powerful, and data-driven outcomes-based expenditure of time.”

-Chuck Palmer, Assistant PrincipalUnion Mine High School

Union Mine High School improved their four-year college-going rate from 26% to 43%.

Create a Culture Around Data

Adams 12 Five Star Schools in Colorado improved their graduation rate by 12 percentage points in 4 years, from 62% to 74%

Improve Graduation Rates

“I’m able to have conversations on career planning that weren’t able to happen five years ago. With Naviance, kids are expanding their world.”

-Tony Romano, CounselorAdams 12 Five Star Schools

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