Ochoa's Vision
"We see the child, every child, as a gifted child for whom there has to be a gifted teacher."
Children and adults of Ochoa School are committed to creating a learning community that values caring relationships, inquiry and innovation, creativity and a democratic way of life.
Our vision is inspired by the values and practices of the Reggio Emilia approach to learning.
We welcome your visit
101 W. 25th Street
Tucson, AZ 85713
Phone: (520) 225-2400
Fax: (520) 225-2401
Office Hours
Mon - Fri: 7:30 - 4:00
School Hours
Mon Tues Thurs Fri: 8:10 - 2:30
Wed: 8:10 - 1:00
Ochoa Bulletin Board
A Conference for Teachers and Families Brings 175 to Ochoa On January 12th, Superintendent John Pedicone welcomed 175 educators, families and university students to Ochoa and opened the international conference, The Dilemma of Reggio–inspired Programs in the Age of Standardization sponsored by the Tucson Children’s Project. Our Ochoa teachers and staff played a key role throughout the three day conference. On Saturday all of our classrooms were open for visitors who were very interested in learning more about the Reggio approach at the elementary school level. |
Ochoa Newsletter: February 2012 Click here to view a PDF of the Ochoa Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 2! |
Children, Families and Teachers Transform the Landscape On November 19th, a crisp Saturday morning, children, families and staff met at the Early Learning Campus for a breakfast potluck and a full day of digging, hauling and planting. Today, the outcome of this work day is all around the Early Learning Campus—fruit trees, rock pathways, new garden plots, grapevines and a place for the new chicken coop. |
Discovering Our Ochoa Neighborhood On October 27th, the 4th and 5th graders em- barked on a Neighborhood Walk. Led in small groups by Cameron, Carrie, Hortencia, Maria, Mimi, Pauline and Yoli, the children left the school with clipboards, compasses and maps in hand. |
Ochoa Newsletter: December 2011 Click here to view a PDF of the Ochoa Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 1! |
Ochoa's Community Garden featured on KVOA! For the past ten years, Paula McPheeters has been teaching her elementary students how to grow and appreciate their urban garden. |
The Hunger Project: A Story of Love During the school year, we make many kinds of soup from our garden vegetables. Since we often have a bounty, the children share the soup they make with the people visiting to our neighborhood soup kitchen, Casa Maria. |
Ochoa Construction 2011 We would like to share with you photos of construction over the summer. Environment is the third teacher at Ochoa, and we are pleased to see it evolve with us as we start a new school year! |
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The Hundred Languages of Children
The childis made of one hundred.
The child has
a hundred languages
a hundred hands
a hundred thoughts
a hundred ways of thinking
of playing, of speaking.
A hundred always a hundred
ways of listening
of marveling of loving
a hundred joys
for singing and understanding
a hundred worlds
to discover
a hundred worlds
to invent
a hundred worlds
to dream.
The child has
a hundred languages
(and a hundred hundred hundred more)
but they steal ninety-nine.
The school and the culture
separate the head from the body.
They tell the child:
to think without hands
to do without head
to listen and not to speak
to understand without joy
to love and to marvel
only at Easter and Christmas.
They tell the child:
to discover the world already there
and of the hundred
they steal ninety-nine.
They tell the child:
that work and play
reality and fantasy
science and imagination
sky and earth
reason and dream
are things
that do not belong together.
And thus they tell the child
that the hundred is not there.
The child says:
No way. The hundred is there.
- Loris Malaguzzi
(translated by Lella Gandini)
Los Cien Idomas de Niños
El niñoestá hecho de cien.
El niño tiene
cien idiomas
cien manos
cien pensamientos
cien formas de pensar
de jugar y de hablar.
Cien siempre cien
formas de escuchar
de maravillar de enamorar
cien alegrías
para cantar y comprender
cien mundos
que descubrir
cien mundos
que inventar
cien mundos
que soñar.
El niño tiene
cien idiomas
(y cientos cientos cientos mas)
pero les quitan noventa y nueve.
La escuela y la cultura
separan la cabeza del cuerpo.
Le dicen al niño:
que piense sin sus manos
que haga sin la cabeza
que escuche sin hablar
que comprenda sin alegría
que ame y que maraville
solo en Navidad y en Pascua.
Le dicen al niño:
que descubra el mundo que ya está ahi
y del ciento
le roban noventa y nueve.
Le dicen al niño:
que trabajo y juego
fantasia y realidad
ciencia y imaginación
cielo y tierra
verdad y sueños
son cosas
que no pertenecen estar juntas.
Y así le dicen al niño
que el cien no existe.
El niño dice:
No puede ser. El cien está ahi.
- Loris Malaguzzi
(traducido del inglés por Caty Franco)
