Key Education Dates, Events and Celebrations Throughout the Year
UPDATE: Our team has now added dates and celebrations for the 2022-23 school year. Please see below!
For any school leader, administrator or communication professional, it can be a challenge to keep track of all the holidays, holidays, events, appreciation days, weekly celebrations and other occasions that take place throughout the year.
To help make this a little easier, we have compiled a list of these events for the next year, starting in July 2022 and running through June 2023. These events include national recognition months, staff appreciation weeks and various well-known and more obscure holidays and days of awareness.
We hope you find this resource helpful as you plan events, communications and social media content this year.
July 2022
- July 4: Independence Day
- July 30: International Day of Friendship
- July 30: System Administrator Appreciation Day (#SysAdminDay)
August 2022
- National Truancy Prevention Month
- Get Ready for Kindergarten Month
- August 9: Book Lovers Day
- August 26: Women’s Equality Day
September 2022
- Suicide Prevention Month
- College Savings Month
- September 5: Labor Day (No School)
- September 8: International Literacy Day
- September 11: National Grandparents’ Day
- Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15)
- September 20: International IT Professionals Day
- September 21: National School Backpack Awareness Day
October 2022
- National Principals Month (#ThankaPrincipal)
- Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
- Down Syndrome Awareness Month
- Careers in Construction Month
- October 1: Manufacturing Day
- October 2: National Custodian Day
- October 3: Child Health Day
- October 4-5: Yom Kippur
- October 5: World Teachers Day
- October 6: National Instructional Coach’s Day
- October 7: Manufacturing Day
- October 10: Indigenous Peoples Day/Columbus Day
- October 10-14: Fire Prevention Week
- October 16: National Boss’s Day
- October 17-21: National School Bus Safety Week
- October 19: Unity Day/Stop Bullying Day
- October 23-31: Red Ribbon Week/Drug-Free America Week
- October 28: National First Responders Day
November 2022
- National Career Development Month
- National Scholarship Month
- Native American Heritage Month/American Indian & Alaska Native Heritage Month
- November 6: Daylight Saving Time Ends
- November 8: National STEM and STEAMDay
- November 11: Veterans Day
- November 14-18: American Education Week
- November 15: America Recycles Day
- November 16: Education Support Professionals Day
- November 17: National Parent Involvement Day
- November 18: Substitute Educators’ Day
- November 20: World Children’s Day
- November 24: Thanksgiving
December 2022
- Human Rights Month
- Learn a Foreign Language Month
- December 2: Special Education Day
- December 3: International Day of People with Disabilities
- December 5: International Volunteer Day
- December 6-12: Computer Science Education Week
- December 18-December 26: Hanukkah
- December 26-January 1: Kwanzaa
January 2023
- National Mentoring Month (#MentoringMonth, #MentorIRL)
- Thank You Month
- 100th Day of School (most districts)
- January 16: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- January 22: Chinese New Year
February 2023
- African American History Month (#AfricanAmericanHistoryMonth, #BlackHistoryMonth)
- Career and Technical Education Month® (CTE Month®) (#CTEMonth)
- Financial Aid Awareness Month (#FinAidFeb)
- Dental Health Month
- February 2: Groundhog Day
- February 6-10: National School Counseling Week
- February 14: Valentine’s Day
- February 15: School Resource Officers Day
- February 17: Random Acts of Kindness Day (#MakeKindnessTheNorm)
- February 20: President’s Day (third Monday in February)
- February 22: School Bus Driver Appreciation Day
- February 23: Introduce A Girl to Engineering Day
- February 27-March 3: Public Schools Week
March 2023
- Women’s History Month
- Youth Art Month
- National Nutrition Month
- Music in Our Schools Month
- March 2: Read Across America Day
- March 3: Employee Appreciation Day
- March 3: Maintenance Workers Appreciation Day
- March 5-11: School Social Work Week
- March 8: International Women’s Day (#EachforEqual, #IWD2023)
- March 10: International Social Emotional Learning/SEL Day (#SELDay #SocialEmotionalLearning)
- March 12: Daylight Saving Time Begins
- March 14: Pi Day
- March 17: St. Patrick’s Day
April 2023
- World Autism Awareness Month
- Financial Literacy Month (#MySavingsStory #FinancialLiteracyMonth #FinLitMonth)
- Counseling Awareness Month (#CounselorsHelp)
- School Library Month
- National Internship Awareness Month
- Mathematics Awareness Month
- National Volunteer Month
- April 1: April Fool’s Day
- April 1-8: National Robotics Week (#NationalRoboticsWeek, #RoboticsWeek, #Roboweek)
- April 4-8: National Assistant Principals Week
- April 4: National School Librarian Day
- April 5: Paraprofessional Appreciation Day
- April 22: Earth Day
- April 23-29: National School Library Week
- April 26: Administrative Assistants Day/Administrative Professionals Day
- April 28: Arbor Day
May 2023
- National Mental Health Awareness Month
- Military Appreciation Month
- National Physical Fitness & Sports Month
- Asian & Pacific-Island Heritage Month/Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month
- May 1: National College Decision Day (#DecisionDay #CollegeBound)
- May 1: School Principals Day
- May 5: School Lunch Hero Day
- May 8-12: Teacher Appreciation Week (#ThankATeacher)
- May 10: National School Nurses Day
- May 12: School Communicators Day
- May 14: Mother’s Day
- May 18: National Speech Pathologist Day
- May 29: Memorial Day
June 2023
- National Safety Month
- Pride Month
- June 18: Father’s Day
- June 19: Juneteenth
- June 21: First Day of Summer
- June 30: Federal FAFSA application deadline