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

Supporting educators’ mental health–with contract language and joy

May, 2024

By Amy Moran, Ph.D. and Kate Okeson With May being Mental Health Awareness month, let’s acknowledge that educators are charged with juggling it all: designing lessons that engage and expand,

Involved and evolving

Mar, 2025

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

Feb, 2025

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

Jan, 2025

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

November is Indigenous Peoples Month

Nov, 2024

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