LENA (Language ENvironment Analysis) is a national nonprofit on a mission to transform early childhood education.
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LENA Grow
offers evidence-based professional development for early childhood educators.
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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.
In Maryland, LENA has reached 450 children and 120 early childhood educators since 2018, and LENA technology has recorded more than 890k conversational turns.
LENA Grow is approved as a training by the DEC-Office of Child Care, Credentialing Branch. LENA Grow PD hours count toward required annual professional development hours for child care licensing and the voluntary Maryland Child Care Credential.
LENA also has crosswalks with Head Start, CLASS, The Pyramid Model, ZERO TO THREE, and more!
Whether you're with a school district, CCR&R, state agency, library, university-community partnership, public health initiative, or any other organization dedicated to improving early childhood outcomes, we want to help you put your organization on the LENA map.
