Be the Difference by Jayneen Sanders
Over 40 powerful and interactive ideas on how kids and the people who love them can contribute to positive change.Using child-friendly text and beautiful illustrations, the focus is on three key areas: empathy and kindness, racial and gender equality, and caring for the environment.
Research shows that 'doing good is good for you'. The participant benefits mentally and physically. Encouraging a mindset of giving and being part of positive change when a child is young makes for a kinder and more caring world.
This book provides ideas for actionable change. The text can be read over a number of sessions by children, or to children by parents and caregivers, or integrated into a classroom setting.
There are in-depth Discussion Questions/ideas to encourage meaningful conversations and further ideas for positive change.
Sanders, Jayneen: - Jayneen (aka Jay Dale) is an experienced early years educator, author and publisher. She started her teaching career in the 1980s as a primary school teacher in rural Australia. She then moved to Melbourne and taught at a number of inner-city schools. In 1985, Jay had a change of career and became an educational editor and publisher. In the early 90s, Jay 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, Jay's first daughter was born there. On returning to Australia, Jay began work as an educational author/packager. Since that time, she has authored and produced numerous award-winning titles for the educational publishing industry. Jay is also an accomplished children's book author, writing a number of titles for such literacy series as ZigZags, Totally Kidz, Deadly and Incredible, and a children's picture book series for Penguin. She is currently working with an educational publisher as lead author of a literacy series. Jay has written over 100 titles in that series. Jay 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 unsafe touch?' When she realised very little was actually 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 the subject of self-protection and to encourage children to speak up. After the encouraging response to Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept, she realised there was a need to further build upon the idea of children not keeping secrets about unsafe touch. Jay 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 prevention education. Jay then went on to develop and publish a comprehensive Body Safety and Respectful Relationship Teacher's Resource Kit as well as writing several more children's books on the topics of Body Safety, consent, respect, body boundaries and gender equality. Jay's ongoing passion for the safety and empowerment of children continues today with new manuscripts and free-to-download Body Safety resources always in the wings.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781925089417 |
| ISBN 10 | 192508941X |
| Title | Be the Difference |
| Author | Jayneen Sanders |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Educate2empower Publishing |
| Year published | 2019-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 42 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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