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.

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Rainbow Connection celebrates Susan M. Waldron for women’s history month

Mar, 2026
By Amy Moran, Ph.D. This Women’s History Month, let’s celebrate Susan M. Waldron, a 20-year New Jersey educator, currently working in North Brunswick Township where she is an elementary school

Mentorship Matters

Feb, 2026
By Amy Moran, Ph.D. I’ll never forget the day, some 10 years ago, when a Muslim sophomore and her girlfriend came to an after-school GSA meeting where I was the

Hopes and dreams for LGBTQIA+educators, students and families

Dec, 2025
Workshops and networking opportunities for educators seeking more inclusive and enriching schools for all students, including LBGTQIA+ students, were offered at the 2025 NJEA Convention. “Standing Up for Transgender and

Two-Spirit histories and present-day erasures 

Nov, 2025
by Amy Moran, Ph.D.   It’s Indigenous Peoples’ Month, and we acknowledge and honor the existence of trans, nonbinary and Two-Spirit people who have existed throughout history in the U.S. and

Holding on to our humanity

Oct, 2025
LGBTQIA+ History Month and beyond  By Amy Moran, Ph. D  In 1820, German-Jewish playwright Heinrich Heine wrote: “This was but a prelude; where they burn books, they ultimately burn people.”

Holding power

Sep, 2025
Start strong and stay aware By Amy Moran, Ph.D. and Allison Connolly  Welcome back! As we begin the 2025-26 school year, wonderful possibilities exist for deepening our practice as educators

Roadmap for representation

Jun, 2025
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

May, 2025
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

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