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Burcham Elementary School is committed to creating a community where teaching fosters a safe, challenging, and joyful environment where strategies are used to bring social and academic learning together so that children thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. In cooperation with parents and community, the staff establishes high expectations for all students as the standard and provides a safe, nurturing environment where our students have the opportunity to become productive, knowledgeable, and responsible citizens.

Belief Statements

All students can learn and reach their highest potential.
Parents, students, and staff share in the responsibility of students reaching their full potential - academically and socially.
Daily attendance is vital to academic success and is the responsibility of the parents.
Teachers, staff, administration, parents, and community members share the responsibility for providing a physically and emotionally safe environment.
Children need a nurturing and structured environment to achieve optimal learning.
All students are recognized for their diversity and individuality.
Teachers must continue to learn and grow personally and professionally to adapt and respond to the needs of the children.
A variety of teaching strategies, meaningful materials, and emerging technology should be used to maximize the students’ individual learning styles.
The social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum.
How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and content go hand in hand.
Knowing the children we teach - individually, culturally, and developmentally - is as important as knowing the content we teach.
Knowing the families of the children we teach and working with them as partners is essential to children’s education.
How the adults at school work together is as important as individual competence.
Based upon research, physical activity increases learning and academic achievement.