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
I love this. It’s great for planning purposes. Thank you!
Thank you for providing this information! It will help our Staff Assembly Board in sending out fun recognition information to our staff and faculty.