What’s LGBTQ got to do with it‪?‬ Member Voices: An NJEA Podcast

Welcome to Member Voices, an NJEA Podcast.  In this episode, we welcome Tom Tamburello, a Mathematics teacher and Department Chair from Lenape High School in Medford New Jersey.
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About Our Guest: Tom Tamburello Tom Tamburello lived in Maryland until moving to New Jersey in 1988. A product of public schools, Tom is a graduate of Cherokee High School in Marlton, NJ and earned his bachelor's degree in Mathematics from The College of New Jersey. In 2002 Tom earned his master's degree in Education from Nova Southeastern University. For the past 20 years, Tom has been a high school math teacher at Lenape High School in Burlington County. At the school he also serves as the advisor to the Gender Sexuality Alliance club, is the math department coordinator, and trains new staff in the Research for Better Teaching program. 
In 2006 Tom was awarded the  N.J. Center for Science, Technology & Mathematics Education Center from Kean University. Two years later he was the Lenape Regional High School District Teacher of the year. Tom has a passion for not only teaching math but understanding and implementing strategies and research about educational practices in his classroom.
During the past 20 years, Tom has served his local by being a building vice president, association representative, and is currently serving as a member at large on the executive board. Tom has also served as Secretary of the Burlington County Education Association, was a member of NJEA's Election Committee, and has been the chairperson of NJEA's Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee for over a decade.
In his free time, Tom enjoys the outdoors, traveling the world with his husband, and is an avid game show fan. Tom and his husband are active in their church, enjoy discussions about the intersection of religion and sexuality, and recently became licensed to be foster parents in the state of New Jersey.
Show Hosts Sean Spiller Sean Spiller, a high school science teacher in the Wayne public schools, is vice president of the New Jersey Education Association. Spiller was elected as NJEA vice president beginning Sept. 1, 2017.
At NJEA, Spiller has served as chair of the Congressional Contact Committee, as a member of the Urban Education Committee and as an ethnic minority-at large representative to the Delegate Assembly. He was also a member of the National Council of Urban Education Associations (NCUEA).
Jeffrey Bradbury Jeffrey Bradbury, author of Kidblog: An Introduction to Blogging With Your Students, is the creator of TeacherCast.net, TeacherCast University, and Educational Podcasting Today, is an ASCD Emerging Leader, Google Certified Teacher, Google Education Trainer, PBS Learning Media Digital Innovator, speaker, writer, broadcaster, consultant and educational media specialist. He is currently the Coordinator for Technology Integration for the Westwood Regional School District in New Jersey. 
In 2012, Jeff was recognized as one of Top 50 educators using social media at the first-ever Bammy Awards and has been nominated three times in the category of Innovator of the Year. Jeff has Keynoted for the Pearson Authentic Learning Conference, EdTechNJ and most recently at Columbia University’s Teacher College and Podcast Mid-Atlantic.