You, Me and Empathy

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, to teach at several inner-city schools. In 1985, Jayneen transitioned to a career as an educational editor and publisher.

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

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, contributing to 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, Jayneen served as a school councillor at her local school for over seven years. Her experiences as both a teacher and a parent inspired her to address child safety in schools. Witnessing a lack of action, she utilized her authoring and publishing skills to write ‘Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept’ to help parents, carers, and teachers discuss inappropriate touch 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 completed Protective Behaviours professional development and attended numerous conferences on child safety, empowering 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 many more children’s books focusing on body safety, consent, respect, gender equality, social and emotional intelligence, and diversity and inclusion.

Jayneen currently co-manages Educate2Empower Publishing with her partner, Mark Sanders. Her commitment to the safety and empowerment of children remains strong, with ongoing work on new manuscripts and free resources.

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