Jacqueline Lynch, together with collaborator Ron Owston, received $120,235 in the recent SSHRC competition for their project “Professional Development for Preschool Teachers: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Literacy Teaching and Learning”. Little is known regarding early educators’ beliefs about how children learn early literacy concepts and how this impacts on their literacy practices with young children. To address the deficit in the research, this project will implement and comparatively study a literacy program for preschool teachers, incorporating two different modes of professional development – face-to-face meetings and a blended approach consisting of face-to-face meetings and online learning. Pre-and post-assessment will entail a survey, interviews with teachers, classroom observations, and children’s literacy assessments. The findings of the proposed research will be of importance to scholars in the field and to early childcare institutions.