Backed by 20+ years of research, lena grow focuses on the key marker of quality in early childhood education Our programs help child care centers, school districts, and families worldwide boost early language development — creating measurable results that transform children’s futures. Or, what lena calls “conversational turns.”
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Lena’s researchers describe a child as experiencing language isolation if they engage in fewer than five conversational turns per hour for all but the single hour during which the most conversational turns occurred.
From head start classrooms to family child care homes and private child care centers, and from libraries to public health initiatives and research universities, lena’s programs are creating measurable differences in children’s lives around the world. Meet our lena leadership team and board of directors Our community advisory board brings together a coalition of leaders and thinkers across the early childhood community to inform key strategic decisions at lena Learn more about working at lena and see our current openings.
At lena, we turn the science of measuring conversational turns into action
