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Welcome to the REHQ Professional Development Hub

From critical reflection frameworks to leadership strategies, the REHQ Hub gives you everything you need to grow as an educator and lead with clarity.

Everything we offer at REHQ — from professional learning modules and leadership resources to critical reflection tools and team training guides — flows from this signature methodology.

READ: WHAT IS REFLECTIVE LEADERSHIP?

The Reflective Leadership Framework offers a practical system for embedding reflection into leadership, team culture, and daily practice.

The framework unfolds in five stages:

  1. Setting the Foundation – Understanding what reflective leadership is and why it matters.

  2. The Core Principles – Building trust, creativity, recognition, and shared responsibility.

  3. Deepening the Practice – Pausing, self-awareness, courageous conversations, and team reflection.

  4. Leading Reflective Cycles – Using structured cycles and tools to guide reflection.

  5. Broader Horizons – Sustaining reflection, shaping culture, and leaving a leadership legacy.

This framework gives leaders the clarity, tools, and confidence to move from reactive management to intentional leadership.

READ: 5 CORE PRINCIPLES OF REFLECTIVE LEADERSHIP

Explore our 'What is Deep & Meaningful Critical Reflection?' introductory module

  • $79

Module 1: What is deep & meaningful critical reflection?

  • Course

In the first module in the Deep & Meaningful Critical Reflection Mastery series, we aim to elevate your understanding of characteristics of quality critical reflection, and why it's so important to professional growth and the effective operation of an early childhood service. We introduce you to our signature reflection framework and proven strategies that you can implement to deepen your pedagogy and practice.
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EXPLORE REHQ RESOURCES

Access journals, toolkits, and downloadable PDF guides - easy to implement critical reflection resources designed to save you time & energy, while supporting meaningful reflective practice.

  • Free

REHQ Critical Reflection Framework

This PDF resource provides an overview of the Reflective Educators HQ Critical Reflection Framework. The framework is a flexible tool that provides educators and leaders with a structured pathway for analysing and responding to complex situations. It offers a way of thinking about different stages and modes of reflection, so leaders and educators can engage in the process thoughtfully and collaboratively.
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  • $12.95

The Inner Compass Journal - A 4-Week Journey to Self-Trust in Leadership

Strong leadership doesn’t begin with policies or programs — it begins within. Self-trust is the foundation of authentic and resilient leadership, helping you make grounded decisions and create stability for those you lead. The Inner Compass Journal is a 4-week guided journey of daily reflections and practical prompts to strengthen your values, trust your judgment, and lead with clarity.
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  • $49

Quality Area 1: Self-Assessment Toolkit

Our 'Quality Area 1: Self-Assessment Toolkit,' offers ready-to-use templates, guided reflective questions, and strategy development tools to help you assess your strengths and areas for improvement, set SMART goals, and create action plans. This toolkit empowers educators to enhance their pedagogy, programming, and practice in alignment with Quality Area 1, promoting continuous improvement and professional growth.
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  • $49

Quality Area 2 Self-Assessment Toolkit

The Quality Area 2 Self-Assessment Toolkit is designed to serve as a robust support system for early childhood educators aiming to embed critical reflection into regular practices. The toolkit provides educators with structured tools for self-assessment across the six quality elements in NQF Quality Area 2 - Health and safety, encouraging deep examination of strengths, areas for improvement and potential strategies.
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  • $9.95

Reflecting on Theoretical Perspectives Journal

This 52 page resource empowers educators to enhance their pedagogy and practice. With key quotes and ideas from theorists including Piaget, Vygotsky, Montessori, Erikson and Froebel, this editable PDF journal provides a flexible platform for deep reflection. Explore theoretical perspectives, analyse your practices, and align them with evidence-based principles through thought-provoking reflective questions.
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  • $14.95

Strategies for Collaborative Reflection Journal

This 64 page journal is an editable PDF resource that equips educators with three highly effective collaborative reflection strategies: professional learning conversations, action research projects, and case studies. Includes ready-to-go templates for implementing structured reflection on quality elements: child directed learning, inquiry-based learning, child-centred programming, and professional collaboration.
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  • Free

Schon's Modes of Reflection Activity

This 3 page editable PDF resource is specifically designed to introduce educators to the four modes of reflection proposed by Donald A. Schön: reflection in action, on action, for action, and for learning, with a concise overview of each mode and reflective questions for individual or collaborative reflection. To further support your learning, we have also included a link to a mini video lesson within the PDF.
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  • Free

Element 1.2.1: Intentional Teaching - Professional Learning Conversation Guide

This guide empowers leaders to facilitate collaborative reflection on NQF Element 1.2.1: Intentional Teaching, offering insights into how intentional teaching enhances outcomes for children. It underscores the importance of intentional educators promoting critical thinking and utilising professional knowledge, guiding educators through reflective discussions and collaborative problem-solving.
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  • Free

Reflection in-action: tips & reflection activity

This two page PDF tip and reflection activity focuses on reflection in-action, providing a definition, recommendation for further reading, tips for engaging in on-the-go reflection, and a reflection activity with guiding questions for discussion or written reflection. To learn more about the different forms of reflection, check out our 2022 workshop series, 'Deep & Meaningful Critical Reflection Mastery.'
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  • Free

Dweck Critical Reflection Resource PDF

This two page printable PDF resource provides 7 guiding questions that allow educators to explore a prominent idea from Dr Carol S. Dweck's 2006 book, 'Mindset.' The key quote, questions and reflection template prompt educators to deeply examine the belief that human qualities, including our intelligence, personality and abilities, are not indeed "fixed," but can be developed over time with effort and experience.
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  • Free

Malaguzzi Critical Reflection Activity

This critical reflection resource draws on a key quote from early childhood educational theorist, Loris Malaguzzi. The guiding questions offer inspiration, unpacking the quote to provoke deeper inquiry into how it resonates with your current pedagogy and practice as an educator.
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  • Free

Cultivating Curiosity and Inquiry: The Path to a Reflective Mindset - Article & Activity

This 14 page resource uses an article and accompanying reflective questions to inspire educators to explore the significance of cultivating an enquiring mind in the context of 21st century learning. It draws on theoretical perspectives to highlight the benefits of developing an enquiring mindset, sharing strategies for cultivating curiosity, a reflective mindset, and the qualities of a lifelong learner.
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  • Free

Webinar: Inspiring Creativity and Innovation through Collaborative Reflection

In this 16 minute webinar, Dr Angela Andonopoulos discusses the importance of embracing diverse perspectives, creating a safe and supportive space, encouraging risk-taking and experimentation, leveraging collective wisdom, and inspiring continuous learning - all to create a culture of continuous improvement. Follow-on reflection questions stimulate team discussion, creating a 30 minute Professional Learning session.
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Webinar activity: Inspiring Creativity and Innovation through Collaborative Reflection

This collaborative reflection activity is designed to accompany the webinar: 'Inspiring Creativity and Innovation through Collaborative Reflection.' This resource contains a choice of guided reflection questions, space for reflection, and an action plan template for educators to record identified strengths, areas for improvement, strategies and goals for action, and plans for tracking and reviewing progress.
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