Your room’s arrangement, materials, and how you present them all affect learning, for both the children and you. How can you create a space that lets you focus on strong relationships with the children you care for?
LENA (Language ENvironment Analysis) is a national nonprofit on a mission to transform children's futures through early talk technology and data-driven programs. LENA works with a wide range of partner organizations to boost early brain development and improve school readiness for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Since 2018, LENA has served 1,000 children and 160 early childhood educators in Indiana, and LENA technology has recorded over 890,000 conversational turns. Put your community on the map!
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LENA Grow
offers evidence-based professional development for infant, toddler, and preschool teachers.
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LENA Start
builds school readiness and strengthens families with parent-group classes.
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LENA SP
offers reliable, detailed language environment data in research and clinical applications.
The Early Years Initiative, a competitive grant opportunity made possible with generous support from Lilly Endowment Inc., is helping Indiana's early childhood advocates make unprecedented strides in improving children's lives and bolstering their future success. Early Learning Indiana has recognized LENA Grow and LENA Start as model programs for prospective Early Years Initiative grantees to consider. 
LENA satisfies all four foundational goals of the Early Years Initiative:
In addition, the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) has incorporated an evaluation of LENA Grow into its comprehensive analysis of child care programs and child development in Indiana.
Great things are happening in the Hoosier State, and we’d love to be part of them with you!
📂 Click here to download "LENA Grow Crosswalk with Indiana Early Learning Standards."
LENA also has crosswalks with Head Start, CLASS, The Pyramid Model, ZERO TO THREE, and more!
Explore our national crosswalks and partnerships!
Whether you're with a library, school district, CCR&R, state agency, university-community partnership, public health initiative, or any other organization dedicated to improving early childhood outcomes, we invite you to learn more about bringing LENA to your community.
Connect with
Luis Bernal,
Regional Partnerships Director, Indiana
LuisBernal@LENA.org
Read these and other stories about partner success stories and research findings in Indiana and beyond.
Your room’s arrangement, materials, and how you present them all affect learning, for both the children and you. How can you create a space that lets you focus on strong relationships with the children you care for?
Dr. Lucy Hart Paulson, co-author of LETRS for Early Childhood Educators, on how learning to talk and learning to read and write happen in parallel. Learning to read starts earlier than you think, and conversational turns are an important piece of the puzzle!
One veteran teacher’s LENA Grow journey: “It kind of goes back to my childhood. I struggled with learning. I never really had anyone who taught me that as long as I kept trying, I could.”
It’s more important than ever to equip early childhood educators to address children’s unique needs and help get their language and social-emotional development on track. There’s strong new evidence to suggest that LENA Grow, a language-focused professional development program for early educators, is effective at doing just that.
What role may a child’s earliest interactions play in laying the foundation for learning to read? In this webinar, we take an expert deep dive into how conversational turns from ages birth to five fit into the ongoing discussions around the “science of reading.”
It’s no easy task for early childhood leaders to strategically disburse funds from PDG B-5, CCDBG, CLSD, and ARPA grants into the hands of LEAs and CCR&Rs. In fact, the alphabet soup of early childhood education funding streams can be a bit hard to digest, so to speak. In this webinar, state leaders will tell the stories of how and why they invested in initiatives for statewide implementation, as well as their visions for further expansion and impact.