Leadership Structure
Each location of PEP has its own Campus Administrator. This is who you’ll interact with the most and who will know and serve your family the most closely. We have an Operations Manager who serves to support and walk alongside the Campus Administrators, Tutors and families, as well as a Financial Manager who ensures our fiscal integrity. Additionally, we have our Visionary and Founder who continues to make PEP a passion project and pour her gifts and skills into serving us all. And as always, you as the parent remain the final authority in your child’s education. We are not a school, but our college-like class schedule provides a type of hybrid homeschooling model for Christian education.
Beth Smith, Visionary & Founder
We’re All About: Excellence
We’re on a mission at PEP to disciple and equip a generation of students to live for the kingdom of God here on earth as it is in heaven. We believe all truth is God’s truth and that every discipline and every subject comes to life when we view it through the heart and mind of God. This motivates our commitment to academic excellence. It’s not about being hard. It’s about seizing the day, stewarding this moment in time, and educating your children with the highest quality of education by means of teaching through the lens of the truth of Christianity.
“We should be consciously preparing the next generation for the new battles it will face.”
Joanne Mastronicola, Operations Manager
We’re All About: Embracing life
Don't be surprised if our Founder, Beth Smith, breaks out in song mid-sentence. Everything in life reminds her of a song lyric, which is why her grandkids call her "Grammy". Our Operations Manager, Joanne Mastronicola (known to students as “Mrs. M”, because let’s be honest… who really knows how to say her last name?), has a tradition of going on a solo trip on the day of her birthday which has included sky diving and going to Boston for lunch (yes, just for lunch… from Florida to Boston). Don’t let our commitment to a challenging course of study at PEP fool you. In fact, it is precisely because we do care passionately about instilling our students with true knowledge and wisdom that we cultivate a culture that embraces the fullness of the Christian life, including joy. We believe this joy can really only come from a deep and abiding trust that God is really here with us and is holding all things. Together, we get to find joyful fulfillment and deep connection!
“The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject, and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.”
“Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee as Thou deservest:
To give and not to count the cost;
To fight and not to heed the wounds;
To toil and not to seek for rest;
To labor and not ask for any reward
Save that of knowing that we do Thy will.”