Help young children feel valued, confident, and ready to learn!

In this report, we examine the role conversational turns may play in a child’s early development of self-esteem.

One of the most effective ways to increase emotional intelligence is to talk about feelings! These tips offer ways to support children in identifying, acknowledging, and working through their emotions.

This resource (available in English & Spanish) helps support children in learning to recognize, understand, and navigate their feelings and emotions. Share with educators and families in your community!

Language and interactions are key to noticing, expressing, and managing feelings and emotions.

If a child’s sense of self affects academic and lifelong outcomes, how can we set them up for success in their earliest years?

A child's self-esteem is already well formed by age 5! Check out these tips on supporting children's confidence in your classroom.

A study from MIT and Harvard uses LENA technology to investigate how children’s brains changed following an early language intervention.

Many previous studies have drawn connections between the quantity of back-and-forth interactions in early childhood and later linguistic and cognitive skills. Importantly, newly published research conducted in Chile has taken a novel direction, determining that infants’ language environments predict their socioemotional skills one year later.