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

This is YOUR month to make queer history!

Oct, 2023

By Kate Okeson and Amy Moran, Ph. D. This year, we challenge YOU to make queer history in ways you haven’t before! Consider adding some of these affirmations of

The state of education in NJ is… SUPPORTED

Sep, 2023

By Kate Okeson and Amy Moran, Ph. D. A common thread woven through Rainbow Connection articles is highlighting what educators have done and can do in classrooms across New

Celebrating queer PRIDE

Jun, 2023

…at the NJEA Carol Watchler LGBTQIA+ Advocacy Conference By Amy Moran, Ph. D. and Kate Okeson The Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Committee’s first overnight conference last month was a

Creating the Bergen County GSA Consortium

May, 2023

Educator organizing and activism By William Andresen with Amy Moran, Ph. D. and Kate Okeson William Andresen is a social studies teacher and Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) adviser at

School libraries are for every person in school every school

Apr, 2023

By Kate Okeson and Amy Moran, Ph.D., with Martha Hickson, MLIS April is School Library Month. Libraries and media centers are essential resources—places to connect and find refuge. They’re also

What NOT to Do

Mar, 2023

By Amy Moran, Ph.D. and Kate Okeson Has any mascot—bulldog, cougar or tiger—ever stood up for you in a terrifying moment in which you were being verbally, emotionally or