Kindy Uplift professional development that begins with the educator
Kindy Uplift is designed to build teacher and educator capability and strengthen outcomes for children participating in Queensland kindergarten programs.
At The Educators Well, our approach begins underneath the practice, with the educator.
The Depths of the WELL is a 12-month whole-service educator development and implementation journey designed to strengthen wellbeing, self-awareness, reflective capacity, professional learning and the conditions that help learning move into everyday practice.
Your service identifies its priorities. Your educators tell us where they are. The Depths builds the journey between the two.
Kindy Uplift 2026
What is Kindy Uplift?
Kindy Uplift is a Queensland Government initiative that provides eligible kindergarten services with funding to build teacher and educator capability, support inclusion and strengthen children’s learning and development. Funding can be used for eligible professional development, programs, resources and supports.
For 2026, eligibility and use of funding remain matters for the service under Queensland Government requirements. Confirm your eligibility, planning and proposed expenditure with your Kindy Uplift advisory support organisation and current Department of Education guidance.
Services identify their priority area or areas through their own data-informed Kindy Uplift planning. The Educators Well does not select or assess a service’s priority.
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Culturally safe, inclusive and responsive kindergarten programs
Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, equity and access.
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Social and emotional learning
Supporting identity, relationships, emotional awareness and connection.
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Physicality
Supporting movement, physical confidence, wellbeing and engagement.
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Executive function
Strengthening attention, flexibility, working memory and self-regulation.
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Language and literacy
Building communication, language, meaning-making and early literacy.
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Mathematics and numeracy
Growing curiosity, confidence, patterns and mathematical thinking.
An educator-first lens
The priority may be about children. The development still involves the educator.
The Depths of the WELL does not replace a service’s Kindy Uplift planning. Once a service has identified its priority, we explore the educator knowledge, confidence, wellbeing, reflection and professional practice underneath it.
Culturally safe, inclusive and responsive practice
How do my identity, experiences, assumptions and knowledge influence the way I show up?
We explore self-awareness, belonging, cultural humility, inclusion, recognising what we do not know, willingness to listen and learn, and whose perspectives are noticed or overlooked.
Cultural knowledge and the embedding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives require appropriate cultural expertise and relationships. The Educators Well does not position itself as a cultural authority.
Social and emotional learning
What happens within me when emotions, relationships and behaviour become challenging?
We explore educator regulation, emotional awareness, triggers, responses, boundaries, empathy, connection and assumptions about behaviour. Before asking how an educator can support a child’s regulation, we create space for the educator to explore their own regulation and capacity to remain present.
Physicality
How connected am I to my own body, energy, comfort with movement and perception of risk?
We explore energy, fatigue, sensory needs, movement, body awareness, attitudes to physical play, risk tolerance and how educator comfort can influence practice.
Executive function
How do I manage my own attention, organisation, flexibility and responses when things do not go to plan?
We explore cognitive load, overwhelm, planning, transitions, working memory, flexibility, attention, competing demands and recognising when capacity is stretched.
Language and literacy
How does the way I communicate influence the relationships and learning around me?
We explore listening, pausing, questioning, tone, assumptions, communication habits, confidence, curiosity, giving others space and whose voices are heard.
Mathematics and numeracy
What beliefs and confidence do I bring to mathematics, and how do they influence what I notice?
We explore confidence, curiosity, beliefs such as ‘I’m not a maths person’, noticing patterns, relationships and problem-solving, fear of wrong answers and willingness to explore.
From priority to implementation
Plan
Learn
Implement
Reflect
Evidence
Evaluate
The service remains responsible for its Kindy Uplift planning, identified priorities, QIP and service documentation, expenditure decisions and evaluation requirements. The Depths can sit alongside that work by providing a structured educator development and implementation journey.
1The service identifies its priority.
2Educators begin with private reflection and The WELL Framework.
3De-identified collective themes help shape the service learning journey.
4Monthly Deep Dives move learning into practice.
5Ripple Leaders facilitate reflection, professional conversations and shared learning.
6Whole-service professional development supports priority areas.
7Beginning-to-end collective reflection helps the service see themes in educator growth and identify questions to take forward.
The Depths of the WELL
More than a one-off professional development session
The WELL Framework develops the individual.
The Depths of the WELL takes that individual growth deeper into practice.
Ripple Leadership helps that growth spread.
The Depths is a personalised 12-month whole-service educator development and implementation journey. No package pricing is shown here because the journey is shaped around your service.
The WELL Framework for participating educators
Private educator reflection
An initial de-identified Service Reflection Snapshot
A personalised 12-month learning journey
Eight online Deep Dives
Ripple Leaders embedded within the team
Whole-service professional development
Service Portal and professional development records
End-of-year reflection and a Beginning to End collective snapshot
Your educators have their space. Your service has its space.
Educators own their individual account and private reflections. Services do not receive educator journals, check-ins, lesson responses or private written reflections.
Where an educator chooses to share WELL progress, the service sees only the permitted overall completion information. The service receives de-identified collective insights designed to support learning and implementation, not individual assessment.
How Kindy Uplift planning fits
Queensland’s Kindy Uplift planning is an annual cycle involving collecting and analysing data, planning and implementation, and evaluation and critical reflection. Services identify priorities through that process and work with their advisory support organisation.
After priorities are identified, The Depths can support educator capability, professional learning and implementation. It does not replace advisory support or the service’s planning responsibilities.
Important Kindy Uplift information
Clear roles and responsibilities
The Educators Well is an independent provider. The Queensland Department of Education does not maintain an approved or preferred list of Kindy Uplift professional learning and practice support suppliers and does not endorse individual providers.
Participating services remain responsible for determining their Kindy Uplift priorities, checking eligibility and allowable expenditure, completing required planning and documentation, conducting supplier due diligence, and working with their Kindy Uplift advisory support organisation.
The Depths of the WELL is educator development and implementation support. It is not government approval, funding advice, a QIP audit, compliance consultancy or a guarantee that expenditure will be accepted under Kindy Uplift.
Kindy Uplift is a Queensland Government initiative providing eligible kindergarten services with funding to build teacher and educator capability, support inclusion and strengthen children’s learning and development.
Can Kindy Uplift funding be used for professional development?
Funding can be used for eligible professional development, programs, resources and supports. Each service remains responsible for checking current eligibility and allowable expenditure with its advisory support organisation and official guidance.
Is The Educators Well an approved Kindy Uplift provider?
There is no Queensland Department of Education approved or preferred supplier list for Kindy Uplift professional learning and practice support. The Department does not endorse individual providers. The Educators Well is an independent provider.
Does The Educators Well decide our Kindy Uplift priority?
No. Your service identifies and documents its priority area or areas through its own data-informed planning process.
Can The Depths of the WELL support more than one priority area?
Your service identifies the priorities relevant to its context. The personalised journey can respond to your selected focus while retaining its educator-first approach, but this does not guarantee how expenditure will be treated for funding purposes.
Does The Educators Well complete our QIP?
No. Your service retains responsibility for its QIP and compliance obligations. We support educator development, reflection and implementation rather than QIP or compliance consulting.
What does our service receive?
The Depths is a personalised 12-month journey that can include The WELL Framework, private reflection, de-identified collective insights, eight Deep Dives, Ripple Leadership, whole-service professional development, implementation support and Service Portal records.
Are educator reflections private?
Yes. Individual reflections remain private. Services receive only permitted overall progress information and de-identified collective insights, in line with the existing privacy model.
How do we find out what The Depths could look like for our service?
Use the existing service proposal builder to share your service context, participating educators, identified priorities and hopes for the next twelve months.
Build your Kindy Uplift-aligned educator development journey
Tell us about your service, the educators participating, the priorities you have identified and what you hope will be different twelve months from now. We’ll use that information to create a personalised Depths of the WELL service proposal.
