Rainbow Connection

LGBTQIA+ resources for members and students.

NJEA SOGI Committee shares LGBTQIA+ resources by age

The NJEA Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee has compiled age-appropriate LGBTQIA+ resources for educators.

These resources were assembled by former and current members of NJEA’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee and have not all been screened by NJEA or other members of the committee. Websites, book editions, links etc. are subject to change at any time.

NJEA Review Columns

Roadmap for representation

By Amy Moran, Ph.D. with Jeannette Sena and Henry Goodhue  Rainbow Connection first featured the activism of Jeannette Sena, her colleagues and their newly formed HEA LGBTQIA+ Alliance Committee in

Holding Power

Teaching in trying times By Amy Moran, Ph. D. and Allison Connolly  “In just 71 days,” our state’s own Sen. Cory Booker started in his record-breaking speech last month, “the

Holding Power

Teaching in trying times By Amy Moran, Ph. D. and Allison Connolly  The first months of the new presidential administration have yielded astonishing developments that compromise our civil society. We’ve

Involved and evolving

By Amy Moran, Ph. D. with Cheryl Bell-Fortes  This Women’s History Month, we honor Cheryl Bell-Fortes! Cheryl started her teaching career through alternate route certification in 2004 at Science Park

Teaching out and proud

Amy Moran, Ph. D. with Terron Singletary  This February, we honor Terron Singletary. Terron is the choral music teacher at Burnet Middle School in Union, New Jersey—the same middle school

New Jersey’s public schools offer a how-to for Congress

By Amy Moran, Ph. D. with Maika Schulman  Good news! Delaware elected our country’s first (known) transgender person to Congress, 34-year-old Rep. Sarah McBride (D). McBride’s platform supports expanding access

Making histories visible

by Amy Moran, Ph. D. On the line in this past election was the possibility of increased access to critical literacies versus book bans, civil rights for all versus legislation

November is Indigenous Peoples Month

By Amy Moran, Ph.D. In the schools of our childhoods, white colonial histories, norms and perspectives were reinforced at the expense—indeed, the omission—of those of Indigenous people who were already