Peach Smith

Peach Smith is a wife, mother, and a dedicated classical educator.

A life-long learner, she has devoted decades to the teaching of students, the development of curricula, and the forming of educational programs around the world. She has assisted hundreds of families with educational planning from home education to school choices to college consulting. She has built educational programs for private schools and assisted in the building of co-ops, pods, and developing curricula in private schools. Peach has instructed classes in all subjects from Pre-K to the high school level.

Peach is the founder of Sacred HEART Academy, which provides college preparatory classes and educational consultations for homeschoolers, private schoolers, and public schoolers. She currently teaches at the Sacred HEART Academy and at Koinonia Academy in Plainfield, NJ. At Koinonia Academy Peach teaches Chemistry, Classical Sciences, (including Anatomy & Physiology), Physics, Cultural Geography, and US History; she is also the curriculum coordinator, a lead teacher, and the guidance counselor.

As a speaker and consultant, Peach works with Classical education, special needs, arts consultations, curricula development and consultations. She also works with the creation of transcripts for homeschoolers, and assists with college counseling and military entry, diplomatic and international relations forms for boarding schools, foreign academic documents and school documentation. She founded and ran the HEART Convention in New Jersey, and has spoken on education, homeschooling, special needs and dyslexia in conventions and online programs in the USA and in Europe. Her talks include discussions on literature, history, educational methods, and the Holocaust. Peach also runs professional development programs to help homeschoolers, teachers, and administrators in the better understanding of the Classical method of learning and what a Liberal Arts education means - from single talks to all day seminars, her focus is on supporting the educator in implementing the good, the true and the beautiful in their classrooms.

““Freedom” is not just for playtime or break, although playing is an essential part of education. In a sense, the goal of education—certainly the goal of a Liberal Arts education, which begins in kindergarten—is the growth in freedom, both intellectual and spiritual, that comes from knowing the truth. It is the truth that sets us free. Or at least, through learning the truth—about the world, about ourselves—we gain a more important kind of freedom than any we acquire by, let’s say, increased mobility, or more shelves in the supermarket. So our education, which leads us out of ourselves, or beyond ourselves (the word educare means “leading out”), is all the time leading us into a wider world, a greater freedom.” ~ Stratford Caldecott