The relevance of the article lies in the study of understanding of mentoring, from the point of theory and practice of application by managers and menti-teachers in the education system of the Russian Federation. In our previous studies, we considered the coefficients of development of the personality of a teacher, such as: intellectual development, emotional development, spirituality — affecting the formation of managerial and performing qualities of a personality. We also gave examples of domestic and Western approaches to the development of scientific foundations of mentoring, studied the spatial environment: the period of development during thePandemic, means of digital learning and interaction with the teaching staff, as well as the transition from digital environment to familiar, academic format. To date, the topic of applying mentoring in practice, understanding it in theory, as well as studying aspects suitable for domestic education has turned out to be relevant. The purpose of this study is to analyze the respondents’ answers on the use of mentoring in the practice of a preschool educational organization.