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Early literacy success doesn't mean teaching babies to read. They build early literacy skills through simple interactions with caring adults.
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Growing Confident Learners: Webinar Highlights
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A Classroom Transformed by Confidence: Patricia’s LENA Grow Story
After 25+ years in early childhood education, you might think she'd seen it all. But she discovered something that changed everything. 
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5 Ways To Build Confidence in Early Childhood Classrooms
A child's self-esteem is already well formed by age 5! Check out these tips on supporting children's confidence in your classroom.
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Early Literacy is an Open Book: Webinar Highlights
When does a child start learning to read? In "Early Literacy Is an Open Book," experts shared how early literacy shapes success in early childhood education and beyond.
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How To Turn Children’s Books Into Early Literacy Tools
Are you using children's books and read aloud time to it's fullest potential? Explore how early literacy skills develop through both!
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The Importance of Early Literacy in Early Childhood Programs
What exactly IS early literacy anyway? And how can early childhood education program decision makers help support these critical skills?
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10 Simple Ways To Support Early Literacy: A Guide for Caregivers and Educators
Whether you're a caregiver or educator, you already have everything you need to nurture early literacy skills.
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Webinar: The Right Way To Invest in Early Childhood Educators

July 30, 1 p.m. ET

What really works in supporting the early childhood workforce? Let’s explore together! We’ll start by learning what inspires educators to improve, and what helps them thrive. Then we’ll explore how targeted, supportive PD that focuses on what matters to educators leads to greater job satisfaction, better retention, and improved outcomes.
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Understanding Challenging Behavior in Early Childhood Education
In this webinar we will discuss how a focused approach on educator-child interactions can enhance relationships and support healthy social behaviors....
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Growing Confident Learners
If a child’s sense of self affects academic and lifelong outcomes, how can we set them up for success in their earliest years?...
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Early Literacy Is an Open Book
Literacy is a powerful thing. When you can read and write, you can aspire to anything....
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Sustainable, Scalable Initiatives in Early Childhood: What’s Next for Funding and Quality Improvement?
It’s no easy task for early childhood leaders to strategically disburse funds from PDG B-5, CCDBG, CLSD, and ARPA grants into the hands of LEAs and CCR&Rs. In fact, the alphabet soup...
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Rethinking School Readiness
“School readiness” often gets tangled in a web of standards and divided responsibilities. So let’s simplify it. We’re rethinking school readiness by focusing on the essentials: early language skills that form the...
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Multilingualism and Heritage Languages in Early Childhood Education: Amplifying a Call to Action
In this webinar, LENA’s researchers will expand on their findings about inequities in child care and preschool settings with a new dataset. These findings will act as a springboard to a solutions-based...
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