Aman Lado was named assistant principal of the Normandy Kindergarten Center. Lado has taught in the Normandy Schools Collaborative since 2007, when he worked as a Pre-Kindergarten teacher at the Normandy Early Childhood Center. In 2016, he was recognized as the Normandy Teacher of the Year. Lado’s philosophy as an educator is that the whole child is valuable: the social and emotional being, physical body, and cognitive abilities must be nurtured.
Lado, who served in the U.S. Marines and is a veteran of Operation Desert Storm, is committed to building relationships with families and maintaining a strong personal presence with students. A former mortgage banker, Lado realized his calling to education after his trip to Washington, D.C., for the Million Man March in 1995. After listening to a young man speak at the event, he was inspired to return to his community and make a difference through education.
Lado holds a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education from Harris-Stowe State University. He earned a certificate in Child Development from the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. He is currently completing his graduate studies at Northwest Missouri State University.
The Normandy Schools Collaborative reorganized the leadership structure for the Normandy Early Childhood Center and the Normandy Kindergarten Center in anticipation of the new Early Learning Center scheduled to open in fall 2019. Each school will have an assistant principal providing instructional leadership. Both assistant principals will report to the director of the Early Learning Center, Crystal Hunter. This management structure will move to the new building in August 2019.
“The Early Learning Center will serve as the academic foundation for the next generation of Normandy scholars, so we must ensure that the leadership is strong, cohesive and working together from day one,” said Charles J. Pearson, Normandy Superintendent of Schools.
