Celebrate Diversity!

Days Weeks and Months

September

  • 1: Labor Day
  • 7: National Grandparents Day
  • 11: Patriot Day
  • 17: Citizenship/Constitution Day
  • 23: Rosh Hashanah

  • National Deaf Awareness Month
  • 8-12: National Arts in Education Week
  • 15-16: Central American Independence Days
  • Sept 15 - Oct 15: National Hispanic Heritage Month

October

  • 1: Yom Kippur
  • 6: Child Health Day
  • 6: World Day of Bullying Prevention
  • 6-13: Sukkot
  • 9: Ombuds Day
  • 13: Indigenous Peoples' Day
  • 13: Columbus Day
  • 20: Diwali
  • 25: Make a Difference Day
  • 31: Halloween

  • National Hispanic Heritage Month
  • Polish American Heritage Month
  • Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month
  • National Bullying Prevention Month
  • National Farm to School Month
  • National Principals Month
  • Crime Prevention Month
  • Learning Disabilities Awareness Month
  • 5-11: Fire Prevention Week
  • 13-17: National School Lunch Week
  • 20-24: National Character Counts! Week
  • 20-24: National School Bus Safety Week
  • 23-31: Red Ribbon Week

November

  • 1: All Saints Day
  • 4: Election Day
  • 11: Veterans Day
  • 13: World Kindness Day
  • 21: Substitute Educators Day
  • 27: Thanksgiving Day

  • National Native American Heritage Month
  • 3-7: National School Psychology Awareness Week
  • 17-21: Geography Awareness Week
  • 17-21: American Education Week
  • 23-29: National Family Week

December

  • 7: Pearl Harbor Day
  • 10: Human Rights Day
  • 14-22: Hanukkah
  • 15: Bill of Rights Day
  • 24: Christmas Eve
  • 25: Christmas Day
  • Dec 26 - Jan 1: Kwanzaa
  • 31: New Year's Eve
 

January

  • 1: New Year's Day
  • 6: Epiphany
  • 15: FCPS Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration
  • 18: World Religion Day
  • 19: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday Observance

  • 25-31: National School Choice Week

February

  • 1: National Freedom Day
  • 12: Abraham Lincoln's Birthday
  • 13: Frederick Douglass Day
  • 14: St. Valentine's Day
  • 16: President's Day
  • 17: Mardi Gras
  • 17: Ramadan
  • 18: Ash Wednesday
  • 22: George Washington's Birthday

  • National Black/African American History Month
  • National Career and Technical Education Month
  • National Children's Dental Health Month
  • 2-6: National School Counseling Week
  • 16-20: Take Your Family to School Week
  • Feb 18-Apr 4: Lent
  • 21-28: National FFA Week

March

  • 2: Purim
  • 4: Holi
  • 7: Youth Art Month Opening, Delaplaine Visual Arts Center (exhibit ends March 29)
  • 8:International Women's Day
  • 14: Pi Day
  • 17: St. Patrick's Day
  • 19: Eid al-Fitr
  • 20: Nowruz
  • 29: Palm Sunday

  • American Red Cross Month
  • Irish American Heritage Month
  • Middle Level Education Month
  • Music in our Schools Month
  • National Nutrition Month
  • Women's History Month
  • Youth Art Month
  • 1-7: National School Social Work Week
  • 1-7: National Foreign Language Week
  • 2-6: National School Breakfast Week
  • 15-21: National Poison Prevention Week

April

  • 1-9: Passover
  • 3: Good Friday
  • 5: Easter Sunday
  • 6: Easter Monday
  • 7: World Health Day
  • 12: Orthodox Easter
  • 22: Earth Day
  • 24: National Arbor Day

  • National Poetry Month
  • School Library Month
  • National Child Abuse Prevention Month
  • World Autism Month
  • 6-10: National Assistant Principals Week
  • 19-25: Administrative Professionals Week
  • 19-25: National Library Week
  • 19-25: National Volunteer Week
  • 20-24: Public School Volunteer Week
  • 24-30: National Student Leadership Week

May

  • 1: Law Day
  • 1: School Lunch Hero Day
  • 5: Cinco de Mayo
  • 5: National Teacher Day
  • 6: National School Nurse Day
  • 6: National Bike and Roll to School Day
  • 8: World Red Cross Day
  • 10: Mother's Day
  • 14: Ascension
  • 16: Armed Forces Day
  • 21: Shavuot
  • 24: Pentecost
  • 25: Memorial Day
  • 26: Eid al Adha

  • Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
  • Jewish American Heritage Month
  • National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
  • National Speech-Language-Hearing Month
  • Mental Health Awareness Month
  • 1-7: National Physical Education and Sport Week
  • 3-9: National Children's Mental Health Awareness Week
  • 3-10: National Music Week
  • 3-9: Be Kind to Animals Week
  • 4-10: National Children's Book Week

June

  • 5: World Environment Day
  • 14: Flag Day
  • 19: Juneteenth
  • 21: Father's Day

  • Caribbean-American Heritage Month
  • Great Outdoors Month
  • LGBTQI+ Pride Month

July

  • 4: Independence Day