2023

September

2023

  • Back to School
  • Suicide Prevention Month
  • 4: Labor Day
  • 6: Read a Book Day
  • 15: Hispanic Heritage Month begins
  • 15: Rosh Hashanah Begins
  • 17: Rosh Hashanah Ends
  • 10: National Grandparents Day
  • 11: September 11/Partriot Day
  • 17: Citizenship Day
  • 22: Native American Day
  • 25-26: Yom Kippur
  • 23: First Day of Autumn

October

2023

  • Bullying Prevention Month
  • Dyslexia Awareness Month
  • Filipino American History Month
  • LGBTQ+ History Month
  • Mental Illness Awareness Month
  • National Book Month
  • National Down Syndrome Awareness month
  • Principals Month
  • 1-7: Mental Illness Awareness Week
  • 5: World Teachers' Day
  • 9: Inidgenous Peoples' Day
  • 9-13: National School Lunch Week
  • 11: National Coming Out Day
  • 15: Hispanic Heritage Month ends
  • 16: Boss's Day
  • 16-20: Invisible Disabilities Week
  • 16-20: National School Bus Safety Week
  • 16-20: National School Bus Safety Week
  • 24: United Nations Day
  • 31: Halloween

November

2023

  • Native American Heritage Month
  • 1-2: Dia de los Muertos
  • 5: Daylight Savings Time ends
  • 7: Election Day
  • 11: Veterans Day
  • 13-17: American Education Week
  • 13: World Kindness Day
  • 15: National Education Support Professionals Day
  • 23: Thanksgiving

December

2023

  • International Human Rights Month
  • Learn a Foreign Language Month
  • 1: World AIDS Day
  • 2: Special Education Day
  • 7: Hanukkah begins (Dec. 18-26, 2022 Hanukkah)
  • 10: Human Rights Day
  • 15: Bill of Rights Day
  • 15: Hanukkah ends
  • 21: First day of winter
  • 25: Christmas
  • 26: Kwanzaa begins

January

2023

  • School Board Recognition Month
  • 1: New Year's Day
  • 1: Kwanzaa ends
  • 9: First day of Legislative Session
  • 16: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
  • 22: Lunar New Year
  • 27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

February

2023

  • Black History Month
  • 6-10: National School Counseling Week
  • 14: Valentine's Day
  • 17: National PTA Founders' Day
  • 20: Presidents' Day

March

2023

  • Music In Our Schools Month
  • Women's History Month
  • 2: NEA's Read Across America Day
  • 6-12: National School Social Work Week
  • 5-11: National School Breakfast Week
  • 12: Daylight Savings Time begins
  • 13-17: Education Support Professionals Week
  • 17: St. Patrick's Day
  • 20: First Day of Spring
  • 22: Ramadan begins

April

2023

  • Arab American Heritage Month
  • National Volunteer Month
  • 1: April Fool's Day
  • 2: WEA's 134th anniversary. WEA was founded in 1889 as the Washington State Teacher's Association, with 124 members. The annual salary for teachers and administration was $266.30. Annually, the per-pupil expenditure was $16.06.
  • 5: Passover begins
  • 9: Easter
  • 13: Passover ends
  • 22: Ramadan ends
  • 23-29: National Library Week
  • 24: Last Day of Legislative Session
  • 17-21: National Volunteer Week
  • 26: Administrative Professionals Day
  • 22: Earth Day

May

2023

  • Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
  • 2: National Teacher Day
  • 5: Cinco de Mayo
  • 6-12: National School Nurse Week
  • 8-13: Teacher Appreciation Week
  • 10: National School Nurse's Day
  • 14: Mother's Day
  • 29: Memorial Day

June

2023

  • Immigrant Heritage Month
  • Jewish American Heritage Month
  • LGBTQ+ Pride Month
  • 14: Flag Day
  • 18: Father's Day
  • 19: Juneteenth
  • 21: First Day of Summer

July

2023

  • Disability Pride Month
  • 4: Independence Day
  • 23: Parents' Day

August

2023

  • 1: Primary Election Day