You may know exactly how you wish to use the Engaging Empathy lessons in your curriculum. If not, you might consider using the lessons with holidays and celebration months. The Empathy Calendar begins in August to align with the school year.
Introducing Empathy for back to school.
Women's Equality Day (August 26)
Labor Day (First Monday in September)
National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 through October 15)
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day (September 17)
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Bullying Prevention Month
International Day of the Girl (October 11)
World Values Day (Third Thursday in October)
Native American Heritage Month
World Kindness Day (November 13)
World AIDS Day (December 1)
Day Without Art (December 1)
International Day of Persons with Disabilities (December 3)
Human Rights Day (December 10)
Hanukkah (Varies)
Christmas (December 25)
Kwanzaa (December 26-30)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Day of Service (Third Monday in January)
Note: The Association for the Study of African American Life and History provides a black history theme each year.
Day of Remembrance for Japanese American Internment of WWII (February 19)
Earth Day (April 22)
Independence Day (July 4)