Lisa Nehring

About Lisa

Lisa Nehring is the founder and director of True North Academy — a fully Cognia-accredited online school serving families across the country — and a thirty-year veteran of educational leadership. Married to Dr. David Nehring and mother to five, she began homeschooling her own children in 1991, and that early calling has shaped her vocation ever since.

Known for straight-talking, strategic coaching, Lisa has walked countless parents out of the fog of “am I doing this right?” and into a clear plan they can trust. She introduced the innovative SAMR method at True North and leads It’s Not That Hard to Homeschool and Blue Collar Homeschooling, encouraging families nationwide. As True North’s Dual Degree Senior Advisor, she guides families whose students are earning college credit in high school.

Experience & Credentials

Lisa holds two graduate degrees — a Master’s in Human Development and a Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy — and authored a thesis, Why Parents Homeschool, with an extensive historical review of American education. Her career has spanned nearly every role in the field: academic advisor, admissions counselor, curriculum reviewer, event planner, program developer, and classroom teacher of composition, literature, poetry, apologetics, Bible, speech, drama, geography, and Latin.

She frequently speaks alongside her husband, Dr. David Nehring — a clinical psychologist and biblical scholar — on classical education, homeschooling, parenting, and vision. Her philosophy is unmistakable: education is the transmission of culture — a culture of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, rooted in Christ and aimed True North.

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