Chrysalis International, Elizabeth Youmans, Orlando, FL

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Dr. Elizabeth Youmans

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Elizabeth Youmans has served North American Christian education as a classroom teacher, school administrator, trainer of teachers, graduate school professor, curriculum writer, and editor of The Noah Plan, a K-12 published Principle Approach® curriculum. With a quarter century of pioneering experience in Word-centered education at the local and national level, she now imparts the vision for educational reform internationally by laying teaching and learning solidly on the foundation of Christ and His Word through her role as founder and VPO of Chrysalis International.

Dr. Youmans is associated with many outstanding Christian educators. For over twenty years she co-labored with Dr. Carole Adams as a founding parent and educator at StoneBridge School to establish the vision and pioneer the expression of Christian education as a national demonstration school in the Principle Approach®. StoneBridge School is an A.C.S.I. accredited, K4-12 day school located in Chesapeake, Virginia, where she continues to serve on the Board of Directors.

Dr. Youmans served four years as the director of StoneBridge Educational Foundation and developed a national training program for teacher training in the Principle Approach. She also labored with Rosalie Slater, the architect of the Principle Approach, at the Foundation for American Christian Education. As the director of educational projects for six years, she compiled and wrote curriculum guides and edited The Noah Plan®, a published K-12 curriculum for Christian schools and home school settings.

For the past eighteen years, she has traveled throughout the United States and the world as a conference speaker and consultant to Christian school founders, pastors, faculties, and home schoolers. She has helped establish their vision and expression of Christian education by consulting with pastors and administrators and training faculties.

Dr. Youmans is a visiting professor at Regent University, a Christian graduate school located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She has taught on-line distance and traditional campus courses in the School of Education for 10 years where she mentors students and international leaders and sees them return to their countries and establish institutes, Christian schools, and training centers.

She served as a dietitian at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, minored in music at the undergraduate level, has lived with her family in Stuttgart, Germany, and is the mother of four grown children and grandmother of six grandchildren.

Educational Background:

Ed.D., Whitefield Theological Seminary and College: Christian Education and Curriculum
M.A.Ed., Regent University: Independent Studies
A.D.A. Internship, Fort Sam Houston Medical Center, Texas: Hospital Dietitian
B.S., The Pennsylvania State University: Hospital Dietetics

Current Affiliations:

Member, First Presbyterian Church of Orlando, Florida, USA
Board of Directors Integrity University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Board of Directors Emeritus, StoneBridge School, national
demonstration school, Virginia, USA
Advisory Board, Neemias Instituto, São Paulo, Brasil
Member, EurECA, Basel, Switzerland

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