Through continuous professional development and lifelong learning, educators acquire new and improve existing competencies important for improving educational work. According to the opinion of many authors, they are the bearers of the quality of educational practice and, ultimately, the persons who, through their overall actions, make and change the culture of the educational institution in which they operate. The theoretical part of the paper refers first to the culture of the institution (complexity of the concept, dimensions and models and ways of changing culture), and then to the professional development of educators as one of the dimensions of the culture of the kindergarten. In the focus of the research part of the work, while relying on the methodology of systematic review research, an analysis of contemporary research on professional development and culture of kindergartens was carried out, and the search for an answer to the question: "In what way are the concepts of professional development of educators and changing the culture of education related?". By searching the databases, a total of twenty studies in English from different countries were found, ten of which refer to the culture of educational institutions, and ten to the professional development of educators. In the presentation of each research, the following are highlighted: title, objective, research questions, metric characteristics of the journal in which the research was published, methodology (type of research, measuring instruments and data collection process) and results.