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 kindergarten readiness for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Since 2017, LENA has served 6,800 children and 430 early childhood educators in Texas, and LENA technology has recorded over 13.7 million 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.
LENA also has crosswalks with Head Start, CLASS, The Pyramid Model, ZERO TO THREE, and more!
“Because the LENA Grow reports provided instant results that teachers could see, they gained more of an understanding of some of the CLASS dimensions and indicators. So teachers gained a better understanding of what a high-quality, interactive classroom looks like.”
LENA is scaling quickly and has a goal to impact over 100,000 children annually worldwide by 2025. Whether you're with a library, school district, CCR&R, state agency, university-community partnership, public health initiative, or any other organization interested in improving early childhood outcomes, we invite you to learn more about bringing LENA to your community.
Connect with
Ginger Galban,
Regional Partnerships Director
GingerGalban@LENA.org
Read these and other stories about partner success stories and research findings in Texas and beyond.
Classrooms that used LENA Grow, a practice-based professional development program for early childhood educators, increased scores in key CLASS domains compared to classrooms that did not.
What if we looked at early childhood education as an extension of “school”?
LENA and Texas Children’s Hospital are pleased to announce the launch of upWORDS, a program for families in the Houston area beginning this summer.
Rhonda Rakow, Director of Provider Services of ChildCareGroup, shares more about her work with LENA Grow in Dallas, Texas. This webinar explores what quality means now, and offer strategies improve teacher-child relationships and reduce provider stress at the same time.
While we’ve long known about the importance of early adult-child interactions, a research focus on children’s language experiences in child care classrooms has been long overdue.
In Texas, the most recent review of the early childhood QRIS called for a greater emphasis to be placed on caregiver-child interactions. How is Workforce Solutions for North Central Texas using LENA Grow to help child care providers increase quality adult-child interactions?
