Clear Speech
Say what you mean.
For Parents
This curriculum trains children to construct sound arguments, understand how language shapes perception, negotiate effectively, communicate with clarity, and resist manipulation — without becoming manipulative themselves. Every lesson is anchored in moral seriousness: honesty, courage, kindness, and responsibility.
The goal is not to produce children who “win every argument.” It is to produce young people who think clearly, speak precisely, listen generously, and use their words to build rather than destroy. We teach skill and virtue together, because one without the other is dangerous.
Governing Principles
Five Levels of Growth
Using Your Words Well
Children learn the foundations of clear communication — how to ask for what they want, say what they mean, listen before they talk, disagree without fighting, and use words to build rather than tear down.
How Arguments Work
Students learn how arguments actually work — claims, evidence, reasoning, and persuasion. They practice building their own arguments, spotting bad ones, reading between the lines, understanding framing and spin, distinguishing persuasion from manipulation, negotiating, disagreeing with authority, and speaking clearly under pressure.
Language, Power, and Strategy
About how language operates as a tool of power in groups, institutions, and public life.
Rhetoric, Influence, and Institutional Communication
Students examine rhetoric, propaganda, institutional language, and the architecture of persuasion at scale — in law, media, politics, and public discourse.
Mastery, Judgment, and Public Responsibility
The capstone level integrates everything into mature communication — negotiation, public speaking, written argument, ethical persuasion, and the responsibility that comes with the ability to shape what others think.