Leadership Hub

• AECEO — Pedagogical Leadership — what pedagogical leadership means and how Ontario educators are growing it.
• ECEBC Leadership Initiative — BC’s cohort-based leadership program, built on reflective practice and community.
• ECEBC Leadership Library — projects, interviews and change stories from the initiative’s first phase.
• ECE HR Council — The Role of Pedagogical Leadership in Early Learning Settings — a clear primer for new and aspiring leaders.
• McCormick Institute for Early Childhood — research and training on whole leadership in early childhood, from National Louis University.
• How Does Learning Happen? — Ontario’s pedagogy for the early years, a touchstone for pedagogical conversations anywhere in Canada.
• Early Childhood Education Report (ecereport.ca) — benchmarks every province and territory’s ECE policy across funding, access and quality; essential context for advocacy.
• Nurturing Play & Beyond — Tyler J. Summers’ government-funded PL for school-age leaders and their teams.
• Imagine Institute for Learning — Leadership Development — trauma-informed leadership training from Edmonton’s long-running social enterprise, including Stepping Up and the 25-hour Depolarizing Leadership certification series.

• Centre for the Study of Child Care Employment — research and tools on healthy early childhood work environments, including the SEQUAL measure.
• Lillio — Why employee engagement matters in ECE — a practical case for investing in your team’s daily experience.
• Technology Rich Inquiry Based Research (Diane Kashin) — reflective-practice provocations that make wonderful staff meeting conversation starters.
• HiMama webinar — Culturally responsive recruitment & retention — building teams where everyone belongs.
• Devereux — Adult resilience resources — free tools for building your team’s protective factors, not just the children’s.
• Book Club — Leadership & Teams shelf — The Culture Code, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Dare to Lead and friends, one scroll away.

• Lillio — 10 interview questions for hiring educators — questions that surface philosophy, teamwork and heart.
• HeadStart.gov — Essential interview questions for exceptional staff — a values-and-working-style question bank from the US Head Start network.
• Brightwheel — Preschool teacher interview questions — scenario-based questions with what-to-listen-for notes.
• Region of Peel — Child care onboarding — a Canadian municipal model for welcoming new child care employees well.
• Brightwheel — Onboarding checklist for child care programs — a 30–90 day structure that turns orientation into retention.
• Lillio — How to retain your best educators — because the best hiring strategy is keeping the people you have.
• Job Bank — ECE job prospects and wages — national outlook data for writing fair, competitive postings.
• CSLS — Addressing the ECE labour shortage in Canada (PDF) — the research picture behind today’s hiring market.

• CTRI — 3 priorities for having a difficult conversation — a kind, Canadian framework for the talks we tend to postpone.
• CTRI — 6 tips for dealing with a difficult person — steadying strategies for high-friction moments.
• Workplace Strategies — How to have difficult conversations — free, practical guidance from Canada Life’s workplace mental health hub.
• HeadStart.gov — Practice-Based Coaching — the widely used coaching cycle for strengthening educator practice.
• ACHIEVE Centre for Leadership — workshops — Canadian live and on-demand training on difficult conversations, coaching and management.
• Crucial Conversations on our Book Club shelf — the classic playbook when stakes are high and opinions differ.

• CCCF — Understanding educator burnout — what burnout looks like in early learning, and what actually helps.
• CMHA — The Burnout Crisis (PDF) — the national report on burnout among ECEs and child & youth workers.
• ZERO TO THREE — Preventing burnout — practical self-care strategies for early childhood professionals.
• Workplace Strategies for Mental Health — free Canadian tools for leaders supporting psychologically safe teams.
• Devereux — Your Journey Together for adults — resilience-building resources made for caring professionals.
• ECE Report — Workforce — the policy context behind workload, pay and wellbeing in the sector.

Pedagogy is the science, art and intentional practice of guiding how children learn and thrive. It’s the why and the how behind everything educators do — every environment you set up, every conversation you join, every plan you make. When leaders tend to pedagogy, the whole program grows around it.

Our framing here is inspired by The Pedagogy Palace (Angela Hines), one of the independent voices we love for making pedagogy feel this warm.

What is pedagogy?

• How Does Learning Happen? — Ontario’s pedagogy for the early years — the four foundations (belonging, well-being, engagement, expression) that anchor pedagogical thinking across Canada.
• Flight — Alberta’s Early Learning and Care Framework — a warm picture of children as mighty learners and educators as co-learners alongside them.
• BC Early Learning Framework — British Columbia’s vision of living, reflective pedagogy, from big principles to everyday moments.
• CECE Practice Guideline — Pedagogical Practice (PDF) — how Ontario’s College describes child-centred, play- and inquiry-based pedagogy in action.
• Te Whāriki — New Zealand — the beloved bicultural curriculum that shows how a whole country can weave pedagogy together.

Pedagogy in daily ECE practice

• Think, Feel, Act — Ontario — research briefs and videos on pedagogical documentation and making children’s learning visible.
• From Theory to Practice (PDF) — BC — a gentle, step-by-step companion to pedagogical narration.
• Introducing the Early Learning Framework — free online course — a self-paced way to bring BC’s framework into daily practice.
• Flight resources — practical tools and stories for living Alberta’s framework every day.
• CECE — Reflective Practice and Self-Directed Learning (PDF) — a kind, practical guide to building reflection into your week.
• Play and Exploration: Early Learning Program Guide (PDF) — Saskatchewan’s warm guide to emergent, play-based programming.

Pedagogical leadership

• AECEO — Pedagogical Leadership — Ontario voices on what it means to lead learning, not just manage a program.
• Early Childhood Pedagogy Network (ECPN) — BC’s network of pedagogists working alongside educators to deepen everyday practice.
• ECEBC — Early Childhood Pedagogy Network — how the pedagogist role supports educators and communities across BC.
• Westcoast CCRC — Working with a Pedagogist — a friendly look at what happens when a pedagogist joins your team.
• McCormick Institute for Early Childhood — research and tools on whole leadership, where pedagogy and administration meet.
• CCCF — Interaction Magazine archive — Canadian practitioners writing about leading pedagogy, mentoring and communities of practice.

Keep growing on this site

• Identify Your Pedagogy — Resource Hub tool — a gentle reflection to help you name the approach already living in your practice.
• Pedagogy-tagged PL in our directory — Reggio Emilia–inspired professional learning we’ve sourced from independent voices across the sector.