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 Labor Day International Sign-up Mo. Literacy Day 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Sept 15 - Mayflower Day Grandparents’ Patriot Day 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: Rosh Hashanah*
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 National Good Sept. 29-30: Yom Kippur Neighbor Day
October 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 2017 Child Health Day International German Walk to School American Day October 1-31: Day Crime 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Prevention Columbus Day 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 Halloween 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* 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 Christmas Kwanzaa 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 Groundhog Day 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 Mardi Gras Valentine's Day Chinese New National PTA Birthday Ash Wednesday 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 Good Friday
March 30-31: Passover* (First Days)
Month Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat April 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 2018 April Fool’s Day International World Health Day Children’s Book April 1-30: Easter 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 Earth Day Administrative Take Our National Arbor Professional Daughters and Day Day Sons to Work Day
April 22-28: Administrative Professionals Week AND April 23 - 27: National Volunteer Week
29 30
May 1 2 3 4 5 2018 Law Day World Press Horace Mann’s Cinco de Mayo 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. Ramadan
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 Memorial Day 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 Flag 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 Juneteenth 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
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
*Begins at sunset on the preceding day