Five Tips for Parents from a Principal

Point your kids in the right direction; 

when they’re old they won’t be lost.

— Proverbs 22:6

Imagine a school that’s “loose enough for creativity and structured enough for students to learn.”

That’s the environment Rodney Lewis, Elementary School Principal in Ballwin, MO, has in his school.  This month he tied for the 1st place Administrator’s Excellence in Education Award from St. Louis Magazine.

His “Five Tips for Parents” are

1.  Being involved matters.

2.  Tell your child you love them every day.

3.  Read with your child every day, and ask questions.  We have to create thinkers.  Our society and our world rest on innovation.

4.  Don’t work so much that you miss your child growing up.

5.  Be excited about school, teachers, principals.  It all matters because all kids are listening to the conversation.