Date Submitted: Fall 2023
Contact information: Ginger Galban, gingergalban@lena.org
Focus population: Children, Teachers, Owners, Caregivers, Guardians, Administrators, Parents
Goals and outcomes: Program was not implemented through Oklahoma Clearinghouse
Brief/executive summary of program: LENA Grow is an innovative, research-based professional development program for infant, toddler, and pre-K teachers. LENA Grow supports stakeholders at every level, helping educators gain the skills to measurably improve classroom quality by boosting interactions, helping coaches adopt a novel, data-driven approach to complement their other observations of a teacher’s practice, and helping leadership make more informed planning and policy decisions. With weekly coaching sessions, teachers gain data insights that go far beyond typical feedback, leading to quality improvement without additional burden on their schedules. The program is language agnostic and has been proven to be effective in multilingual environments.
LENA’s programs help caregivers across the globe tap into this power of conversational turns. LENA pairs our industry-leading ‘talk pedometer’, which measures a child’s language environment and generates easy-to-read data reports, with personalized, actionable feedback crafted through research-based strategies, with the ultimate outcome being increasing the quantity of early talk in both home and classroom settings.