Welcome! Come join our community.
If part of your mission is to really create a strong foundation for children's love of learning, love of school...then this is the place to be.”
Questions?
The Atlanta Speech School provides an unmatched opportunity to learn from both peers and experts in the field.
Beyond seeking proficiency, we work to construct a Deep Reading Brain for each child. Deep reading requires learning to make connections between what we read to what we think, feel, and do. Through deep reading, children develop empathy, hone critical thinking and go on to make the greatest possible difference in the lives of others.
Over its 85+ years, the Atlanta Speech School has evolved into four school divisions, a clinic, and our Rollins Center for Language & Literacy (for professional development) and Rollins’ free online Cox Campus. Across all our programs we are committed to equity and driven to ensure that each child can find their voice.
The educational equivalent of a teaching hospital, we lead change by extending our work through our free online learning platform, Cox Campus. Cox Campus’ membership is composed of more than 300,000 educators, leaders, healthcare professionals and parents representing all fifty states and 130 countries.
The School, across all its programs, attracts a staff of the most gifted and committed teaching professionals who apply the research of the nation’s leading educational experts to achieve transformational language and literacy outcomes for children. Through our Career Growth program, we encourage staff to pursue their own aspirations and we help them do so through Leadership and Continuing Education tracks, professional development opportunities and mentoring.
7 : 1
student: teacher Ratio
$500K
annual professional development budget
66%
of faculty and staff hold advanced degrees
100%
we 100% follow the science in our instruction
Our focus on language and literacy is through the construction of the Deep Reading Brain. This means that:
- We believe in connection over compliance. Rather than silencing children, we teach them to listen - and to think, to question, and to solve.
- Our staff works together to know and serve each child from within an intentional learning ecosystem that is as joyful as it is rigorous.
- Our practices are grounded in structured literacy and built on the sciences of healthy brain development, language acquisition, and the construction of the Deep Reading Brain. This work is intentionally centered around critical thinking, empathy, problem solving and the development of executive functioning.