John Burroughs Elementary serves students in NE Washington, DC emphasizing STEM instruction to develop curious and confident learners. a. To bring together the home and the school so that parents and teachers, school administrators and the community may cooperate mutually in the education and enrichment of our children. b. To develop closer connections between school and home by engaging parent involvement. c. To encourage communication between parents, teachers and school administration. d. To provide those resources to the school that are not provided or not provided sufficiently for in the school budget and are deemed necessary or desirable by the staff for the support and education of the children at John Burroughs Elementary. e. To promote the school motto, “It's always a wonderful day for teaching and learning at John Burroughs.”