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Self-Paced Public Speaking & Debate

Private Coaching. Guided Learning. Your Schedule.

A flexible program for students who want to build public speaking and debate skills without committing to a fixed weekly class.

101 — Foundations 201 — Advanced Start Anytime Coach D Practice
1 Set Up Your Account
2 Meet Your Coach
3 Learn & Practice
4 Progress at Your Pace
✓ Follow an eight-week rhythm, move faster, or pause when your schedule gets busy.
✓ Learn through Capitol Debate's Learning Center, instructional videos and guided curriculum.
✓ Practice with Coach D between private coaching sessions.
✓ Build confidence, reasoning, persuasion, communication and debate skills.
START ANYTIME • LEARN AT YOUR PACE

Choose Your Learning Path

Private coaching included with every course.

Best for New Students

101 — Foundations

Build the essential skills first.
$899 ACTIVE tuition
8 private 30-minute coaching sessions • Learning Center • Videos • Coach D
Best for Experienced Students

201 — Advanced Communication & Debate

Deeper reasoning, persuasion and strategy.
$899 ACTIVE tuition
8 private sessions • Advanced pathway • Readiness review • Foundations Bridge
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Choose Your Starting Point

Build the foundation. Then go deeper.

Most students begin with 101 Foundations, then continue into 201 as their confidence, reasoning and speaking skills grow.

Level 1 • Course 101

Foundations

Essential public speaking, reasoning and communication skills.

Students learn how to turn an idea into a clear, persuasive message and deliver it with growing confidence.

  • Confidence & speaking comfort
  • Choosing a topic
  • Audience & purpose
  • Thesis development
  • Catchy openings
  • Main-point organization
  • Evidence & source use
  • Reasoning & explanation
  • Impact
  • Powerful conclusions
  • Delivery fundamentals
  • Introductory refutation
Level 2 • Course 201

Advanced Communication & Debate

Understand why arguments succeed or fail — and learn how to respond strategically.

Students move beyond basic speech construction into deeper reasoning, persuasion, rhetoric and sophisticated argument strategy.

  • Advanced reasoning & warranting
  • Logical fallacies
  • Underlying assumptions
  • Ethos, pathos & logos
  • Rhetorical devices
  • Persuasive framing
  • Advanced refutation
  • Counter-evidence & turns
  • Comparison & weighing
  • Cross-examination strategy
  • Audience adaptation
  • Advanced delivery
Designed as the next step after Foundations.

Course 201 builds on the core speaking, reasoning and delivery skills from 101 with deeper persuasion, refutation and debate strategy.

Student practicing public speaking with Capitol Debate

The schedule belongs to your family.

Each course includes eight private 30-minute coaching sessions. Students can use them over eight consecutive weeks, move more quickly, or spread the learning over a longer period.

Follow an 8-week rhythm One coaching session each week alongside the learning path.
Move faster Complete lessons and schedule coaching more frequently when time allows.
Slow down Take additional time on a skill when the student needs more practice.
Pause when life gets busy Resume the learning journey without missing a weekly class.
More Than Online Videos

A complete learning system around the student.

Private coaching provides the human relationship. The Learning Center, video library and Coach D give students tools to continue learning between sessions.

1:1

Private Coach

Eight individual 30-minute coaching sessions with each course.

LC

Learning Center

Guided lessons, tools and learning pathways organized around speaking and debate skills.

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Video Library

Watch explanations, examples and demonstrations before practicing.

AI

Coach D

Practice skills, receive immediate feedback, revise and try again.

Start here. Grow from here.

A student does not need to decide today that they want a competitive debate league. Start by developing powerful communication skills and let progress reveal the best next opportunity.

Club Debate League — weekly coaching, team learning and competition.
Club Debate Flex — continue the Club pathway without a fixed weeknight.
Summer Camp — apply these skills in an immersive speaking and debate environment.
Capitol Debate student delivering a speech