Mission Statement
Our mission is to serve homeschooling families through a Christ-centered hybrid model of education. Our goals are to offer support for home education, to provide a Charlotte mason-inspired classroom experience, to promote God-honoring friendships, and to nurture a genuine love for learning in our students.
Our Approach
We are a Christian hybrid program inspired by the methods of Charlotte Mason and classical education. Our focus is to come along side homeschooling families and partner with them by providing two days of tutor-led, on-site learning and optional lesson plans for your days at home. Our program meets at our secure facility in Saylorsburg (Kresgeville beginning fall of 2026) on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 9am-3pm. On-site days consist of shorter, age-appropriate class times with a push for educating the whole child through rich literature, character building, and multiple opportunities for outdoor play and learning. We offer multiple subject areas including Bible, math, language arts/phonics, history, science/nature study, artist/composer study, art and more during our days here on site. We would love to team up with you and support you on your homeschooling journey.
Meet Our Staff
Jillian Ripley
Co-Founder - CEO
Jillian was born and raised in the East Stroudsburg area of Pennsylvania. She is a wife and mother of three and has seven years of homeschooling experience. Jillian has her bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education and seven years of teaching experience at a private school. Opening and running a school has always been a dream of hers. She has a passion for home education and she wants to share it with you.
Lindsay Medina
Co-Founder - COO
Lindsay was born and raised near the shores of South Jersey. She is a wife and mother of six with a passion for honoring God, loving children, and serving families. She has been homeschooling for ten years after spending five years working with children as a pediatric nurse. She is excited to have opportunity to offer support and encouragement to the homeschooling community.
Jen Smoke
Director
Jen was born and raised in Pennsylvania and currently resides in Mount Bethel with her three daughters. She is excited to be in her sixth year homeschooling! She serves her church in several ministries, including an archery club held at Mount Eaton Church. A voracious reader of homeschooling and Charlotte Mason books, she loves to share homeschool resources and to encourage new homeschooling parents. She and her family also love hiking, camping, and all forms of wilderness adventures.
Debra Stettler
Administrative Assistant
Debra was born and raised in New Jersey and later moved to Pennsylvania. She is a wife of 39 years and counting! She has raised four children and is blessed with seven grandchildren. She loves the Lord and enjoys sharing that love with all of our students and families.
Cindy Witten
Kindergarten Instructor
Cindy Witten was born and raised in Monroe county, Pennsylvania. She has been married for 14 years and is a mom of 3 beautiful children and one pup. Cindy has been homeschooling her kids for 8 years and is loving it! For the past 4 years, she has served as a Sunday school teacher for Calvary Bible of Stroudsburg in the pre-school, kindergarten, and 1st grade classes. Her favorite things are teaching, crafting, butterflies and the color purple.
Janyll Ferrante
1st Grade Instructor
Bio Coming Soon
Tiffany Barcene-Rubio
2nd-3rd Grade Instructor
Bio Coming Soon
Maggie Miller
4th/5th Grade Instructor
Maggie was born and raised in East Stroudsburg, PA. She graduated from a local Christian school and later earned an associate degree in elementary education. Maggie taught at a Christian school for 16 years then homeschooled her youngest son for 12 years. She and her husband have been happily married for forty years and have 3 awesome children and 9 beautiful grandchildren. She is also very active in her church ministry teaching jr. church on Sundays and kid's club on Wednesdays. Maggie loves teaching children and watching them light up each time they learn something new.
Paul James
6th-9th Grade Instructor
Paul James was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, joined the Navy after graduating high school and served for 21 years. He is a devout Christian, a father of 3 daughters and 1 son and has 3 grandchildren. In addition, he is the West Easton Borough Council President, sits on the Easton Area Joint Sewer Authority, and serves as the Emergency Management Coordinator for the Borough of West Easton.
Paul brings a plethora of life experiences, being in the Navy and traveling the world, as well as working for a number of different manufacturing facilities as a Technical Training Specialist. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University with a bachelor’s degree in education. In addition, was an educator in the Navy, Teacher at PPL, and a Manager of Training at JBS Foods. The beauty of all these experiences is dealing with all the challenges posed at all these different locations with documented success.
Paul loves his church where he is part of the Men’s ministry and a sound board engineer for Sunday services. He loves creating projects from wood, riding his motorcycle, and spending time with his family, who live in Bangor, Detroit and Chicago. He has found great joy in working at Grace, helping the next generation understand God and their responsibilities as young adults in our society. His hope is that he has done his very best to prepare them for what lies ahead.
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