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Every Moment Is a Language Moment – A Guide to Activating Your Classroom’s Language Environment 
Creating a language-rich environment in your early childhood classroom doesn't have to be hard. There are moments already built into your day!
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Webinar: What is a Language Environment? Making Space for Every Child’s Voice
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The Quiet Crisis in ECE: How Conversational Turns Protect Children from Language Isolation 
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Holiday Recipes for Quality Time
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Does an Early Childhood Program’s Star Rating Reflect What Children Actually Experience? 
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Latest Blog Posts

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What’s a “Language Environment” in Early Childhood Education? 
For an early childhood education professional, understanding how to create supportive and engaging language environments is so important!  
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Honoring MLK in Early Childhood Education: Because Every Child Deserves a Voice 
Honoring MLK Day in early childhood education gives us time to reflect on how his mission plays a part in ours every day.
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The Conversations That Changed Everything: LENA’s 2025 Year in Review 
In early childhood education, we talk a lot about building foundations. Preparing children for school. Closing gaps. But 2025 reminded us of something simpler.
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Improving CLASS® Scores and Child Outcomes With Teachstone: Webinar Highlights
As an early childhood education leader, how do you know if what's going on in early childhood classrooms is actually working for children?
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Redefining Quality in Early Childhood: From Checklists to Conversations 
The very definition of quality in early childhood education has evolved. Just about everyone agrees: There’s one key factor driving child outcomes.
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Funding LENA Grow: Three Tips for Early Childhood Funding Success
When it comes to securing early childhood education grants, we make the path forward clearer! 
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Webinars

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What is a Language Environment? Making Space for Every Child’s Voice

March 5, 1 p.m. ET

Even in classrooms full of noise and activity. We call it language isolation. It’s prevalent in early child education and something we all need to address. But what if language isolation — like so many of the biggest challenges facing early childhood educators today — can be improved by focusing on improving the language environment?
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Collaborating on Quality: Improving CLASS Scores and Child Outcomes
What are quality interactions in early childhood education? How can we measure them? And what’s the best way to improve?

In Partnership With Teachstone...
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Funding Your LENA Grow Program
Join us for a practical 1-hour webinar on how to identify, secure, and manage grant funding for LENA Grow....
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A Year of LENA Grow in The Hoosier State
This special webinar in partnership with Early Learning Indiana and with generous support from Lilly Endowment Inc. celebrates the wins for LENA Grow in Indiana....
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The Right Way To Invest in Early Childhood Educators
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...
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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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What Is a language environment? Making Space for Every Child’s Voice

This webinar reveals the hidden crisis of language isolation and shows how interaction-focused language environments drive child outcomes and help tackle some of the toughest challenges in early childhood education. Read more here > 

March 5th at 1:00 p.m. ET

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