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You’re already making a meaningful difference!

Enhance your professional practice with these professional development tools and resources.

As an early childhood professional, you’re already making a meaningful difference in the lives of young children.

With the roll-out of 3-year-old preschool in 2026, there’s an even greater opportunity to make a lasting impact.

To help you get ready to play your part in their flying start, we’re developing a bank of resources, tools, and professional learning opportunities for you to access from this page.

Flying Start Professional Network Grants

The Flying Start Professional Network Grant round has now closed.

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Coming soon

A range of support tools will soon be available for teachers and educators to grow their capability and enrich service quality. Keep an eye out for the launch of these resources.

  • Professional development for aspiring or experienced leaders. Strengthen your leadership capability, capacity, and practice with soon to be launched these opportunities.
  • Preschool toolkit. Become better prepared to create engaging, developmentally appropriate, and culturally responsive programs, for 3-year-old and 4‑year-old preschool children. Access evidence-informed resources to strengthen understanding and confidence in teaching and learning across 5 developmental domains: social, emotional, language, cognitive and physical.
  • Mentoring for early career teachers. Early career teacher will be able to access support through mentoring as they transition from provisional, to full registration with the Teacher’s Registration Board of South Australia.
  • Coaching. Coaching for early childhood teachers and educators re-entering the workforce.
  • Professional learning in coaching and mentoring for experienced teachers. Enhance knowledge and skills through professional learning in coaching and mentoring to support early career teachers.

Register for more information on these initiatives as they become available.

Do you run an early childhood education service?

If you run a service, you may find the following resources helpful in supporting your staff to upskill or engage in professional development.

For centres supporting staff to upskill from a certificate III to a diploma, financial support of $1000 is available to offset costs such as backfilling during the educator’s placement.

If your service is rated as Working Towards the National Quality Standard, is approved to deliver 4-year-old preschool or intends to deliver a 3-year-old preschool program, you may want to participate in the new, free Quality Uplift Program delivered by ACECQA. Find out more at Quality Uplift Program (SA) | ACECQA.

The following subsidies to support professional development are available through the Australian Government:

Read about other supports available at Support for the early childhood workforce - Department of Education, Australian Government.

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