I Am Kind

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 changed careers and became an educational editor and publisher.In the early 90s, Jayneen and her partner moved to Japan to teach English. They lived and worked in Japan for over 3.5 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 a former school counsellor at her local school for over 7 years. This time spent in schools, both as a teacher and a parent, inspired her to ask 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 on how to keep children safe and to provide them with age-appropriate, 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 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.