GISD Fiesta Night

fiesta!

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage

Fiesta Night originally started over 10 years ago to highlight Hispanic Heritage month in October. Each year, the event grew in attendance and student participation, and last year an estimated 1,000 parents came to watch their students perform folkloric dances.

The event took on a new life this year, when it was moved to May and held off campus at the Gainesville Farmers Market. It was a huge success, and the estimated attendance reached 4,000 people! The event is now a way to celebrate the diversity and unity of our entire community. It is a time to come together to dance, smile, and enjoy the true spirit of Gainesville.

“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.”

Mahatma Gandhi

In looking at our students in Gainesville ISD, we see a rainbow of students who mesh beautifully in all aspects of their lives and friendships. This is where unity begins: in our schools.

“In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” Maya Angelou

Just like in a dance or on a team, it takes all of the participants to collaborate to bring out the best in each of us. Each of our students contribute their talents for the betterment of the group! This happens on the athletic fields as well as in the classroom and in real-world situations.

“Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.” Helder Camara

Our students at Edison and Chalmers are learning from each other. Our dual language program strives for our students to be bilingual, biliterate, and bicultural.

Our teachers dedicate themselves to developing the whole child by creating opportunities to become productive and responsible students who will each contribute in their own way.