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

• National Picnic Month
• National Ice Cream Month
• July 4: Independence Day
• July 28: System Administrator Appreciation Day (#SysAdminDay)
• July 30: International Day of Friendship

August 2022

• National Truancy Prevention Month
• Get Ready for Kindergarten Month
• August 9: Book Lovers Day
• August 1-6: International Youth Week (#YouthWeek)
• August 26: Women’s Equality Day

September 2022

• Suicide Prevention Month
• College Savings Month
• Hispanic Heritage Month
• September 5: Labor Day
• September 8: International Literacy Day
• September 11: National Grandparent’s Day
• September 17: Substitute Appreciation Day
• September: 20: International IT Professionals Day
• September 21: National School Backpack Awareness Day

October 2022

• National Principals Month (#ThankaPrincipal)
• National Disability Employment Awareness Month
• Down Syndrome Awareness Month
• Careers in Construction Month
• October 2: National Custodian Day
• October 3: Child Health Day
• October 5: World Teachers Day
• October 6: National Instructional Coach’s Day
• October 7: Manufacturing Day
• October 9-15: Fire Prevention Week
• October 10: Indigenous Peoples Day/Columbus Day
• 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 7: 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 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 5-11: Computer Science Education Week

January 2023

• National Mentoring Month (#MentoringMonth, #MentorIRL)
• Thank You Month
• 100th Day of School (most school districts)
• January 16: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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 14-20: Random Acts of Kindness Week (#MakeKindnessTheNorm)
• 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 (#GirlDay2021)
• 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 13: National Good Samaritan Day
• March 14: Pi Day
• March 17: St. Patrick’s Day
• March 18: National Speech Pathologist Day
• March 21: World Down Syndrome 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 2: Paraprofessional Appreciation Day
• April 2-7: National Assistant Principals Week
• April 7: Walk to Work Day
• April 16: National School Librarian Day 
• April 22: Earth Day
• April 23: International World Book Day
• April 23-29: National School Library Week 
• April 26: Administrative Assistants Day
• April 26: Administrative Professionals Day (#WeLeadUp, #AdminProfessionalsDay)
• 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 1-5: Teacher Appreciation Week (#ThankATeacher)
• May 5: School Lunch Hero Day
• May 10: National School Nurses Day
• May 12: School Communicators Day
• May 14: Mother’s Day
• May 29: Memorial Day

June 2023

• National Safety Month
• Pride Month
• June 12: World Children’s Day
• June 18: Father’s Day
• June 19: Juneteenth
• June 21: First Day of Summer
• June 30: Federal FAFSA application deadline