Do you have a child that is participating in speech competitions, debates, or pageants? This is a chance to get one-on-one guidance and support from award-winning competitors and coaches.

Each tutoring session is tailored to your request. This can include preparing for an upcoming debate, writing a speech, presentation practice, and more. This flexible one-on-one class is designed to allow your student to work on whatever they feel they need improvement: or we can design a specific curriculum with help from you and your student to help them become the best version of themselves.  This can be a one-time class or an ongoing class. 

About Our Tutors:


- Bill Thompson: 
     Bill has coached and instructed speech and debate for more than 30 years with a variety of University, high school, & middle school programs around the country. In the last decade, he has coached 7 high school national finalists and 11 middle school national finalists. He has coached 5 high school national champions and 3 middle school national champions in his career.     
     Bill has an extensive history of building curriculum to teach speech and debate in both intensive speech and debate camp and classroom settings. Central to his curriculum is a focus on helping learners find their voices and helping them develop skills that allow them to hear and appreciate others voices.  His classes are designed to meet learners where they are and develop their research, refutation, speech writing, speaking and overall rhetorical skills.

- Coach Ben
Coach Ben has taught Speech & Debate professionally for over a decade to students ranging from 4th grade all the way through college. Whether your student is brand new or experienced, Ben has mastered the art of turning anyone into a Rockstar Speaker.
Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, Ben’s classes are tailored to an individual’s needs and progress. Ben can help with learning how to speak with confidence and clarity, how to perfect the art of argumentation, how to research and write more effectively, and more! With enough time, every student can become an elite debater and public speaker. Some of the accomplishments of Ben’s students include earning 1st Place at: Middle School Tournament of Champions, High School Tournament of Champions (x2), Harvard University (x3), Stanford University (x2), Princeton University (x4), Columbia University (x3), Yale University (x2), Georgetown University (x6), and more.