Diversity Calendar 2013/2014 Diversity Calendar Mission Statement The purpose of this calendar is to address and support the diversity of students, staff and families in K-­‐12 education settings. We recognize that by increasing our understanding of diverse cultures, their group experiences, traditions, values and beliefs we can enhance our relationships with one another and hence, create culturally responsive environments where everyone feels valued and respected. How Dates Were Chosen Due to the extensive number of cultural holidays, dates for this calendar were determined by the following four criteria: 1. Might a student or staff member be absent as a result of this day? 2. Might a student or staff member be disengaged as a result of this day (e.g., hunger or a negative association with a particular day/date such as Thanksgiving, or a day of remembrance of a tragic event)? 3. Might a student, family, or staff member not be able to participate in a school activity during or after school as a result of this day? (e.g., Many of our students do not participate in Halloween or Valentine’s Day. There are students, families and staff who can not participate in district/school events that are scheduled on the evening of an important religious day observed by the Jewish and Muslim communities.) 4. Does the day provide opportunity for a teachable moment regarding ethnic or cultural diversity that might not otherwise be discussed, particularly those dates associated with a continued history of oppression, discrimination, or racism? Work In Progress We ask for your patience in the event that we have missed important dates that apply to the four criteria. This was an enormous task taken on by a handful of individuals of good will and intention. If you know of another date that meets the above criteria and therefore should have been included, or if there is a date listed that does not meet the criteria and therefore should not have been included, please contact Ilsa Govan at ilsa.govan@culturesconnecting.com. Additional Information If you know of appropriate websites, books, or other resources email Ilsa Govan. Also, please inform us of any websites that were inappropriately chosen to explain a particular day. Acknowledgements This calendar began as a project of Seattle Public Schools. We would like to thank the following contributors that made this Diversity Calendar possible. Special Thanks:  Bilingual Instructional Assistants, SPS Willard Bill, Jr., Huchoosedah  Anita Morales, Instructional Services Shannon McMinimee Legal Office  Mohamed Roble, Bilingual Community Liaison  Keisha Scarlett, STAR Consultant  Ilsa Govan, Equity & Race Specialist Diversity Calendar Committee Members:  Caprice Hollins, Director of Equity and Race Relations  Hung Pham, Bilingual & Community Liaison  Shelly Rosen, SPS Parent  Carl Shutoff, Instructional Technology Resource Teacher Cultures Connecting, LLC www.culturesconnecting.com Diversity Calendar 2013/2014 Notes: Starred (*) holy days begin at sunset of the date listed and go to sunset of the following day. Due to regional and cultural differences, the holidays listed may be celebrated on different dates by individuals of the same faith. Muslim holidays are based on actual sighting of the moon and therefore the day may vary. September 2013 Hispanic Heritage Month 4-­‐6* 9 11 10 13* 16 18*-­‐25 19 22 25* 26* Rosh Hashanah (New Year) Ganesh Chaturthi Enkutatash (New Year) Paryushana Parva Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) Mexican Independence Day Sukkot Tet Trung Thu (Vietnam) Moon Festival (Hong Kong, China,
http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday2.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesh_Chaturthi http://rastaites.com/Ethiopia/newyear.htm http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/paryushan.html http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/holiday4.html
Taiwan) http://www.inside-­‐mexico.com/featureindep.htm http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday5.htm http://www.pongalfestival.org/tet-­‐trung-­‐thu-­‐vietnam.html http://www.regit.com/hongkong/festival/mooncake.htm http://www.pbs.org/hiddenkorea/chusok.htm ChuSok (Korea) Mabon Shemini Atzeret Simchat Torah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabon_%28Wicca%29#Mabon http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday6.htm http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday6.htm Jewish Hindu Ethiopian Jain Jewish Mexican Jewish Vietnam, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Korea Neo-­‐Pagan Jewish Jewish October 2013 Cultural Diversity Month/Coming Out Month/Filipino American History Month 5-­‐19 14 11 13-­‐18 12 15* 20* 31 31 Dashain Indigenous People’s Day/Columbus Day National Coming Out Day Hajj Día de la Raza Eid ul Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) Birth of the Báb Halloween Samhain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasain http://www.homemadejam.org/rethinking-­‐columbus.html Nepalese European American http://www.hrc.org/ncod/ http://www.religioustolerance.org/isla1.htm http://festivales.wikispaces.com/Dia+de+la+Raza http://www.religioustolerance.org/isl_feast.htm http://www.planetbahai.org/cgi-­‐bin/articles.pl?article=16 http://www.history.com/topics/halloween Keep in mind that not all families view Halloween positively. http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usaz&c=holidays&id=12905 LGBTQ and allies Islamic Latin America, Mexican Islamic Bahá'i USA Neo-­‐Pagan Cultures Connecting, LLC www.culturesconnecting.com Diversity Calendar 2013/2014 November 2013 Native American Heritage Month All Saint’s Day http://www.churchyear.net/allsaints.html Anglican & Roman Catholic 1 & 2 3 Día de los Muertos Diwali http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/ http://hinduism.about.com/od/diwalifestivaloflights/a/diwali.htm 4* 11 11* 13* 27*-­‐Dec 5 28 AlHijra (Muharram) Veterans Day Birth of Bahá'u'lláh Ashura Hanukkah http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/muslim/muharram-­‐new-­‐year http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/ http://bahai.org/ http://www.religionfacts.com/islam/holidays/ashura.htm http://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanukah/default_cdo/jewish/Chanukah.htm Mexican Hindu, Jain, Sikh and Buddhist Islamic USA Bahá'i Islamic Jewish Thanksgiving http://americanindiansource.com/mourningday.html Keep in mind that not all families view Thanksgiving positively. 1 European American December 2013 8 8 Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) Feast of the Immaculate Conception 12 Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe
16-­‐24 Simbang Gabi (Christmas) 16-­‐24 Las Posadas 21 Winter Solstice/Yule 25 Christmas 26-­‐ Jan 1 Kwanzaa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhi_Day http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/beliefs/immaculateconcept
ion.shtml http://www.inside-­‐mexico.com/guadalupe.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simbang_Gabi http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/2816-­‐las-­‐posadas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_the_Year http://www.history.com/minisites/christmas/ http://www.history.com/topics/kwanzaa-­‐history Buddhist Catholic Mexican Catholic Filipino Catholic Mexican Neo-­‐Pagan Christian African American January 2014 1 5 6 New Years Day Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh Día le los Reyes (Three Kings http://www.infoplease.com/spot/newyearhistory.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/sikhism/people/gobindsingh.shtml International Sikh http://www.inside-­‐mexico.com/ReyesMagos.htm Mexican Christian Cultures Connecting, LLC www.culturesconnecting.com Diversity Calendar 2013/2014 Day/Epiphany) 20 31
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Lunar New Year (Year of the Horse) http://www.mlkday.gov/ http://www.asianamericanbooks.com/lny_ch_a.htm#general USA China, Taiwan, Viet-­‐ nam, Singapore, Korea February 2014 African American History Month 1 14 Imbolc(g) Valentine’s Day 17 19 President’s Day Holiday Day of Remembrance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolc http://www.history.com/minisites/valentine/ Be mindful that not all of our students celebrate Valentine’s Day http://usparks.about.com/library/weekly/aa021499.htm http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?displaypage=output.cfm&file_id=9464 Neo-­‐Pagan International USA USA March 2014 Women’s History Month/Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month 8 5 5-­‐Apr 19
15* 17 20 20 21 21 31 Internatn’l Women’s Day Ash Wednesday Lenten Season Purim St. Patrick’s Day Persian New Year Ostara Nowruz International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination César Chávez Day http://www.internationalwomensday.com/ http://christianity.about.com/od/holidaytips/qt/whatisashwednes.htm http://wilstar.com/holidays/lent.htm Many Filipino families return to the Philippines during this time. http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday9.htm http://www.history.com/minisites/stpatricksday/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/0317_050317_nowruz.html http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usma&c=holidays&id=1991 http://www.funsocialstudies.learninghaven.com/edu/naw-­‐ruz.html http://www.hrea.org/index.php?doc_id=975 International Christian Christian http://www.ufw.org/_page.php?menu=research&inc=history/07.html USA Jewish Irish Iranian Neo-­‐Pagan Bahá'i International Cultures Connecting, LLC www.culturesconnecting.com Diversity Calendar 2013/2014 April 2014 Holocaust Remembrance Month 6 13 13 14 13-­‐19 14*-­‐22 14 18 20 20 18 20*-­‐May 2 27* 28* 30* National Tartan Day Palm Sunday Bun Pi Mai (New Year) Vaisakhi Holy Week Pesach/Passover Birthday of Guru Nanak Good Friday Easter Sunday Orthodox Easter/Pascha National Day of Silence First Day of Ridván Holocaust Remembrance Day Ninth Day of Ridván Beltane http://www.tartanday.org/ http://www3.kumc.edu/diversity/ethnic_relig/palm_wc.html http://goseasia.about.com/od/laos/a/bun_pi_mai.htm Begins on the first full moon in April http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=Vaisakhi http://www.crivoice.org/cyholyweek.html http://www.jewfaq.org/holidaya.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/sikhism/people/nanak.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/easter-­‐sunday http://www.factmonster.com/spot/easter1.html http://www.dayofsilence.org/ http://bahai-­‐library.com/walbridge_encyclopedia_ridvan http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/yomhashoah.html Scottish American Christian/Orthodox Laotian http://bahai-­‐library.com/walbridge_encyclopedia_ridvan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltane Bahá'i Sikh Christian Jewish Sikh Christian/Orthodox Christian Eastern Orthodox LGBTQ and Allies Bahá'i International Neo-­‐Pagan May 2014 Asian American and South Pacific Islander Heritage Month 1 1* 5 10 May Day (Internatn'l Worker’s Day) Twelfth Day of Ridván Cinco de Mayo Mother’s Day 13 22* 26 29* Vesak Declaration of the Báb Memorial Day Holiday Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh http://www.iww.org/projects/mayday/origins.shtml International http://bahai-­‐library.com/walbridge_encyclopedia_ridvan http://www.mexonline.com/cinco.htm http://www.bajainsider.com/baja-­‐life/holidays/mothersdaymexico.html Mother’s Day (always May 10th in Mexico) is very important for Mexican families. http://www.buddhanet.net/vesak.htm http://www.planetbahai.org/cgi-­‐bin/articles.pl?article=37 http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyseneca/memorial.htm http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art31523.asp Bahá'i USA/Mexican Mexican Buddhist Bahá'i USA Bahá'i Cultures Connecting, LLC www.culturesconnecting.com Diversity Calendar 2013/2014 June 2014 Gay & Lesbian Pride Month 3* 8 12 12 19 21 28-­‐July 27 28-­‐29 Shavuot Pentecost Philippine Independence Day http://www.holidays.net/shavuot/ http://www.stpaulskingsville.org/pentecost.htm http://www.msc.edu.ph/centennial/independence.html Jewish Christian Filipino Loving Day Juneteenth Summer Solstice/Litha Ramadan Pride http://www.lovingday.org/ http://www.juneteenth.com/ http://www.wicca-­‐spirituality.com/summer-­‐solstice.html http://www.colostate.edu/orgs/MSA/events/Ramadan.html http://www.seattlepride.org/index.html USA African American Neo-­‐Pagan Islamic LGBTQ and Allies July 2014 15 12 13-­‐15 23 28 17th of Tammuz Dharma Day Obon Birthday of Haile Selassie EidalFitr (End of Ramadan) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_of_Tammuz http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism/holydays/dharma.shtml http://www.buddhistchurch.com/events/Obon.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Selassie_I http://www.islamicity.com/ramadan/Eid_default.shtml Jewish Buddhist Japanese Buddhist Rastafarian Islamic August 2014 1 4* 12 17 Lughnasadh (Lammas) Tisha B’Av International Youth Day Krishna Jayanti http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/paganism/holydays/lughnasadh.shtml http://www.jewfaq.org/holidayd.htm http://social.un.org/index/Youth/InternationalYouthDay.aspx http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/holydays/janamashtami.shtml Neo-­‐Pagan Jewish International Hindu and Sikh Note: Starred (*) holy days begin at sunset of the date listed and go to sunset of the following day. Due to regional and cultural differences, the holidays listed may be celebrated on different dates by individuals of the same faith. Muslim holidays are based on actual sighting of the moon and therefore the day may vary. Cultures Connecting, LLC www.culturesconnecting.com