Presentation Team

Presentation Team

Not a place to skimp

The K–12 student performance concerns voiced by ordinary parents are often obvious to the parents themselves.

Parents may clearly recognize the challenges facing K–12 students—together with all the complex, real-world subtleties involved—and yet not always be able to articulate those challenges in terms that capture the attention of decision-makers and potential sponsors.

And the HSe4Metrics founder is not a presenter. Therefore, a temporary professional presentation team is a must.

This explainer site serves as a training resource for professional presenters, lobbyists, and—where appropriate—a specialized law firm experienced in engaging federal agencies, Congress, and the nation’s leading corporations. Cognitive specialists, such as developmental psychologists, would be prepared to participate in presentations on an on-call basis.

For information about the cost of training and retaining a professional presentation team, click Presentation Team—Presentation Cost.

In the interest of K–12 student performance, the federal government could fund a professional presentation team, subject to applicable legal, appropriations, and procurement requirements.

If federal funding is not provided—even as federal agencies and Members of Congress review this explainer site—HSe4Metrics could seek to cover the cost of retaining a professional team through a limited fundraising campaign, such as the example at the top of this page.

Although there is no fundraising campaign at this time, click the No Donations menu item at the top of this page to see an example that has not been activated. (Google might generously support that effort through its Ad Grants program.)

The team’s goal: secure a sponsor for the HSe4Metrics platform.

The professional team would present the platform to appropriate federal agencies and departments, Members of Congress, and corporate decision-makers; assist prospective sponsors with their due diligence; and, where appropriate, help coordinate the platform’s implementation and testing.

Lobbyists—like parents across America—can appreciate the urgency of achieving transformative change in hard-number K–12 student-performance results. 

A lobbyist might note that years of a young person’s participation in the HSe4Metrics platform could translate into day-to-day benefits in the K–12 classroom—better enabling teachers to teach and students to learn.

A professional lobbyist’s repertoire would include an informed, persuasive voice for the platform, together with the ability to identify and articulate its far-reaching potential implications through thoughtful extrapolation. The following is just a small sampling of possible outcomes:

  • Better-prepared college students, including reduced need for remediation and lower college-dropout rates
  • Dramatic reductions in national K–12 dropout, chronic absenteeism, and truancy rates
  • Stronger outcomes for students in higher-performing K–12 schools across a broad range of performance metrics
  • Stronger outcomes for students in lower-performing K–12 schools—not limited to reading, writing, and mathematics
  • Growing numbers of qualified candidates for the nation’s workforce
  • A stronger national GDP, supported by growth in the nation’s skilled, homegrown workforce
  • Broad quality-of-life improvements resulting from the combined effects of the outcomes above
The purpose of HSe4Metrics and its platform is to transform lives, focusing on young people during their K-12 years and the critical years before kindergarten.
Helping orient the presentation team are videos.

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Among its key points, this avatar’s message reminds the presentation team to engage with marketing agencies. If the team identifies an agency with established relationships with a major corporation, they could collaborate to co-present the HSe4Metrics platform.

A major corporation may view the HSe4Metrics platform as both a high-profile national marketing initiative and a potentially unparalleled corporate social responsibility (CSR) opportunity—one of importance to the federal government and the public alike.

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The presentation team could strengthen its outreach by coordinating meetings with multiple corporations simultaneously, allowing multiple companies to begin their due diligence in parallel.

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In theory, potential government sponsors are not limited to federal agencies and departments. They could also include state or local governments—or public-private partnerships involving government entities and major corporations.

However, funding and coordinating a highly complex platform across 50 states could introduce unnecessary administrative complexity and delay. Because rapid adaptation and flexibility would be paramount in serving a nationwide K–12 audience whose participation would be voluntary, a more centralized sponsorship structure may better support near-instantaneous adaptation at HSe4Metrics speed—with results ultimately verified through hard-number metrics such as NAEP.

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BRINGING THE HSe4Metrics PLATFORM TO AMERICA’S K–12 STUDENTS COULD BE THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT PUBLIC EDUCATION INITIATIVE IN THE HISTORY OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.

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