Key 2017-18 Dates for School Calendars Here are special days you may want to note on your 2017-18 school year calendar or take into consideration as you establish programs for next year. Published and distributed by Educational Research Service and National School Public Relations Association.

Month Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat September 1 2 2017

Sept 1-30: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Library Card International Sign-up Mo. Literacy Day 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Sept 15 - Mayflower Day Grandparents’ Oct 15: Sept. 15-16: Mexican Independence Days Hispanic Day

Heritage Mo. Sept. 10 - 16: National Arts in Education Week

Sept 17-23: 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Constitution Citizenship Day International Day First Day of Week of Peace Autumn

Sept. 20-22: *

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 National Good Sept. 29-30: Neighbor Day

October 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 2017 International German Walk to School American Day 1-31: Day Crime 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Prevention Month Oct. 8 – 14: National Metric Week Czech Heritage Canadian Month Thanksgiving Italian Oct. 9 - 13: National School Lunch Week American Heritage and Oct 9-15: Fire Prevention Week AND National Educational Office Professionals Week Culture Month

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 National World Food Day Bullying Prevention Oct. 15 - 21: National Character Counts Week Month October 16-20: National School Bus Safety Week National Principals Month 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 United Nations Make a Polish Day Difference Day American Oct. 23 - 31: Red Ribbon Week (Drug Free America) Heritage Month

Trick or Treat 29 30 31 for UNICEF Month

Month Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat November 1 2 3 4 2017

Nov 1-30: 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Native Daylight Saving Election Day Veterans' Day American Time Ends Heritage Month 12 13 14 15 Education 16 17 18 Support National Parental Substitute Professionals Involvement Day Educators Day Day Nov. 13 - 17: American Education Week

19 Gettysburg 20 21 22 23 24 25 Address Thanksgiving Anniversary Day Nov. 19 - 25: National Family Week

26 27 28 29 30

December 1 2 2017 World AIDS Day

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Pearl Harbor Day

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Human Rights * Hanukkah* Hanukkah* Hanukkah* Hanukkah* Day Bill of Rights Day

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Hanukkah* Hanukkah* Hanukkah* Hanukkah* First Day of Winter

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Kwanzaa Kwanzaa Kwanzaa Kwanzaa 31 Kwanzaa January 1 2 3 4 5 6 2018 New Year’s Day

Kwanzaa Jan 1-31: School Board Emancipation Recognition Proclamation Month Anniversary 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Martin Luther King Jr. Day 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 World Religion Day 28 29 30 31

Month Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat February 1 2 3 2018 National Freedom Day Feb 1-28: African 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 American History Month

National Feb. 5 - 9: National School Counseling Week Children’s Dental Health 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Month Abraham Lincoln’s Valentine's Day Chinese New National PTA Birthday Year Founders Day February 14- Feb. 13 - 17: Take Your Family to School Week March 31: Lent 18 19 20 21 22 George 23 24 Presidents' Day Washington’s Birthday

Feb. 17 – 24: National FFA Week

25 26 27 28

March 1 2 NEA’s Read 3 2018 Across America

(Dr. Seuss’s March 1-31: Birthday) American Red Cross Month 4 5 6 7 8 International 9 10 Women's Day Irish Ameri- March 5 - 9: National School Breakfast Week can Heritage Month March 5 - 11: National Foreign Language Week

Music In Our 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Schools Mo. Daylight Saving Absolutely St. Patrick’s Day Time Begins Incredible Kid National Day Middle Level Johnny Education Appleseed Day March 12 - 16: Classified School Employees Week Month 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 National First Day of Baha’i New Nutrition Mo. Spring Year’s Day

Social Work International Day for the Month Elimination of Women’s Racial History Mo. Discrimination

March 18 - 24: National Poison Prevention Week Youth Art Month 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

March 30-31: * (First Days)

Month Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 2018 April Fool’s Day International World Health Day Children’s Book April 1-30: Day National April 6-7: Passover Autism (Concluding Days) Awareness Month 8 9 10 11 Holocaust 12 Holocaust 13 14 National Remembrance Remembrance Poetry Month Day* Day*

April 8 - 14: National Library Week

15 16 Patriot’s Day 17 18 19 20 21

April 15 - 21: National Student Leadership Week AND National Coin Week

April 17 - 21: Public School Volunteer Week 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Administrative Take Our National Arbor Professional Daughters and Day Day Sons to Work Day

April 22-28: Administrative Professionals Week AND April 23 - 27:

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May 1 2 3 4 5 2018 World Press Horace Mann’s Freedom Day Birthday

May 1-31: School Lunch Asian Pacific Hero Day American May 1 - 7: National Physical Education and Sports Week Heritage Month 6 7 8 National 9 National Bike 10 11 12

Teacher Day to School Day Better Hearing and Speech World Red National School Month Cross Day Nurse Day

Food Allergy May 6 - 12: Be Kind to Animals Week AND May 6 - 13: National Music Week Action Month May 7 - 11: Teacher Appreciation Week National Physical 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Fitness & Mother's Day First Day of Sports Mo.

Preservation 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Month Armed Forces Victoria Day Day (Canada)

May 20 - 26: National Educational Bosses’ Week

27 28 29 30 31 World No Tobacco Day

Month Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat June 1 2 2018

June 1-30: 3 4 5 World 6 7 8 9 Caribbean- Environment American Day Heritage Mo.

Great 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Outdoors Mo. Race Unity Day International Day of the African June - July: Child Fireworks June 10 - 14: National History Day Contest Safety Month 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Father's Day First Day of Summer

24 25 26 27 28 29 30

July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 2018 Independence Day June - July: Fireworks 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Safety Month

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*Begins at sunset on the preceding day