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LENA Our goal is to build strong families and communities by increasing the amount of interactive talk between adult caregivers and children.

Early talk shapes a child's life. LENA shapes early talk by providing advanced language measurement technology and programs that help parents and educators talk more with children. Learn more at www.lena.org.

LENA is excited to be a part of the New Mexico Early Childhood and Education Care Department's Choose Connection Confere...
06/01/2026

LENA is excited to be a part of the New Mexico Early Childhood and Education Care Department's Choose Connection Conference this week! If you're attending, we hope you'll join Jill for her presentation on how we can better support multi-lingual learners in early childhood. And don't forget to stop by the LENA booth and chat with Rocy!

What are the most effective, achievable, and accessible ways to support infant and early childhood mental health? May is...
05/28/2026

What are the most effective, achievable, and accessible ways to support infant and early childhood mental health?

May is the perfect month to bring back this past webinar recap!

Kathleen Mulrooney is the director of the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Strategy-Program at ZERO TO THREE. In the webinar, she describes how “anyone who touches the life of a young child and their family is involved in promoting infant and early childhood mental health.”

Think how many people are touchpoints for young children each day, each month...each YEAR. Let's all stay informed about how we can continue to support infant and early childhood mental health through responsive interactions!

Check out the full recap at https://bit.ly/4nqzXRX

What if the key to a stronger early childhood workforce isn't just better hiring — it's better beginnings?New research f...
05/27/2026

What if the key to a stronger early childhood workforce isn't just better hiring — it's better beginnings?

New research from LENA, in partnership with Porter-Leath in Tennessee, points to a critical insight. The early months of a teacher's career are a pivotal window for retention, quality, and confidence. And most programs aren't capitalizing on it.

We're hosting a free webinar, "Help From Day One: Redesigning Support for New Teachers" on Wednesday, June 10 at 1 p.m. State leaders, program directors, and workforce experts will dig into what early educators actually need, and what the data says about keeping them.

Panelists include:
⭐Rebecca Vlasin, Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC)
⭐Erin Kissling, Early Learning Indiana
⭐Larissa Fullilove, Porter-Leath (TN)
⭐Plus LENA research and moderation by Susan Butler-Staub

We'd love to see you there!

Save your seat at https://bit.ly/4vfITwn

05/26/2026

It's day one at the Louisiana Teacher Leader Summit in NOLA, hosted by the Louisiana Department of Education! And Regional Partnerships Director, Gina Gates, is so excited to be talking with all of you wonderful early childhood professionals in attendance. If you're there and haven't stopped by booth #214 yet, we hope you will!

Music is a powerful “instrument” for fostering early literacy, language development, vocabulary acquisition, and reading...
05/26/2026

Music is a powerful “instrument” for fostering early literacy, language development, vocabulary acquisition, and reading readiness in children through rhythm, rhyme, and repetition.

And when used with intention, it's one of the most natural tools you have for sparking the kind of interactions that build brains!

We teamed up with Kindermusik to talk about how songs are more than just songs. They spark conversational turns! Give this new blog post a read to learn more about how music and conversational turns work together to support the skills children need to thrive in school and beyond! 🙌 (There's even some fun activities to try!)💜

You can find it at https://hubs.la/Q04hv-t_0

Memorial Day asks us to stop, acknowledge loss, and remember people whose lives were cut short in service to our country...
05/25/2026

Memorial Day asks us to stop, acknowledge loss, and remember people whose lives were cut short in service to our country.

Today, LENA pauses, with respect, for those who've died, and for the families who carry that loss forward.

Language, culture, and communication are deeply connected. And when adult-child interactions are a focus in early childh...
05/20/2026

Language, culture, and communication are deeply connected. And when adult-child interactions are a focus in early childhood programs, every language has a place in learning.

For example, Head Start programs support over 140 different languages! Many immersion preschools support Asian languages and Spanish. There are even community-based cultural early childhood programs.

Research on early multilingual development has found that children’s language growth isn’t determined by narrowing communication to one language. It’s shaped by whether adults stay engaged — responding, building, and sustaining back‑and‑forth interaction as languages change.

When (and why) do young children start saying "I can"? When do they know they can take that big jump safely or wash thei...
05/19/2026

When (and why) do young children start saying "I can"? When do they know they can take that big jump safely or wash their hands by themselves? When do they finally figure out how to go down the slide on their own?

And how do they get from "I can't" to "I can"?

We've got an inkling of what plays a big part in it!

Find out the answers in our latest blog post >>> https://bit.ly/4uOfNUe

05/18/2026

We want to extend a huge congratulations to Tennessee CCR&R for receiving the Igniting Opportunity Award at the Child Care Aware of America Symposium! It's such a huge honor and we are so grateful to have gotten to witness it but are most grateful for all the amazing work you've done to support and advocate for early childhood programs for children in Tennessee!

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