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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, before moving to Melbourne, Victoria, where she taught at several inner-city schools. In 1985, Jayneen transitioned her career to become an educational editor and publisher.

In the early 1990s, Jayneen and her partner lived in Japan for over three and a half years, working as English teachers. Her first daughter was born there.

Upon returning to Australia, Jayneen worked as an educational author/packager, authoring and producing numerous award-winning titles for the educational publishing industry. She is also an accomplished children’s book author, having written 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, for which she has written over 150 titles.

A mother of three daughters and a former school councillor, Jayneen’s seven years spent in schools as both a teacher and a parent inspired her to address child protection. Realizing that little was being done to protect children from inappropriate touch, she used her authoring and publishing skills to write ‘Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept’, a book aimed at helping parents, carers, and teachers discuss this subject with children and encourage them to speak up.

Following the positive reception of ‘Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept’, Jayneen recognized a need for further prevention education. She underwent Protective Behaviours professional development and attended numerous conferences on child safety, equipping herself to provide age-appropriate and empowering body safety and consent education.

Jayneen subsequently developed and published a comprehensive Body Safety and Respectful Relationship Teacher’s Resource Kit, and authored more children’s books focusing on body safety, consent, respect, gender equality, social and emotional intelligence, and diversity and inclusion.

Currently, Jayneen works with her partner, Mark Sanders, running Educate2Empower Publishing. Her commitment to the safety and empowerment of children remains strong, with new manuscripts and free resources regularly in development.

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