Jayneen Sanders (aka Jay Dale) is an experienced Australian early
years educator, children’s book author and publisher.
She began her teaching career in the 1980s as a primary school
teacher in rural Queensland, Australia. She then moved to
Melbourne, Victoria, and taught at several inner-city
schools.
In 1985, Jayneen had a change of career and became an educational
editor and publisher.
In the early 90s, Jayneen and her partner moved to Japan to work as
English teachers. They lived and worked in Japan for over three and
a half years. In fact, Jayneen's first daughter was born there.
On returning to Australia, Jayneen began working as an educational
author/packager. Since then, she has authored and produced numerous
award-winning titles for the educational publishing industry.
Jayneen is also an accomplished children's book author, writing
titles for literacy series such as ZigZags, Totally Kidz, Deadly
and Incredible, and a children's picture book series for
Penguin.
Jayneen is currently the lead author of the literacy series ‘Engage
Literacy’ published by Capstone. She has written over 150 titles
for that series.
Jayneen is a mother of three daughters and was a school councillor
at her local school for over seven years. This time spent in
schools both as a teacher and a parent inspired her to ask the
question of her community: 'What are we doing in schools to protect
our children from inappropriate touch?' When she realised very
little was being done, she decided to use her authoring and
publishing skills to write 'Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept' to
help parents, carers and teachers to broach this subject and
encourage children to speak up.
After the encouraging response to 'Some Secrets Should Never Be
Kept', Jayneen realised there was a need to further build upon the
idea of prevention education. Jayneen participated in Protective
Behaviours professional development and attended numerous
conferences on the topic to educate herself in how to keep children
safe and provide them with age-appropriate and empowering body
safety and consent education.
Jayneen then went on to develop and publish a comprehensive Body
Safety and Respectful Relationship Teacher's Resource Kit as well
as writing many more children's books on the topics of body safety,
consent, respect, gender equality, social and emotional
intelligence, and diversity and inclusion.
Jayneen currently works with her partner, Mark Sanders to run
Educate2Empower Publishing. Her ongoing passion for the safety and
empowerment of children continues today, with new manuscripts and
free-to-download resources always in the wings.
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