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A webinar graphic titled "Help From Day One: Redesigning Support for New Teachers" features five women’s headshots on the left and a smiling teacher holding a child on the right, with colorful geometric accents on a purple background.
Help From Day One: What New Teachers Actually Need to Stay and Thrive
Children need teachers to stay. So what can we do from a teacher's very first day to help them stay and thrive? Find out!
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A woman lies on her stomach smiling at a seated baby holding a teething toy. Both are surrounded by colorful clouds and stars on a purple and orange background, with toy balls nearby.
Magic Moments: 4 Everyday Moments for More Conversations 
A language development guide for caregivers that covers some unique places to have conversational turns! Check it out and share these tips!
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A woman plays guitar while a baby sits nearby, reaching towards her. Musical notes and creative doodles flow from their heads, symbolizing music and imagination. The background is colorful with purple and orange tones.
More Than a Song: How Music Opens the Door to More Conversations 
Music is a powerful “instrument” for fostering early literacy, language development, vocabulary acquisition, and reading readiness
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A young woman wearing glasses smiles while sitting at a table with a toddler holding a spoon. Colorful dishes and toy food are on the table, with speech bubble graphics in the background.
Every Coo Counts: How Responsive Care for Infants and Toddlers Can Support Conversational Turns 
Are you an infant or toddler teacher? Responsive care is likely very important to you. And this is a very important part of that.  
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Tip Sheets
An infographic titled “Talking Tips for Transitions” features four sections—Arrival, Personal care, Activity changes, and Travel time—with brief parenting tips and colorful icons beside each section. The LENA logo is at the bottom.
Talking Tips for Transitions
Talking with children during transitions builds the brain systems they use for communication and learning. 
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A colorful illustration of a house with photos of adults and children reading and playing, surrounded by icons of a magnifying glass, atom, and pencil, symbolizing learning and education.
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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The Quiet Crisis in ECE: How Conversational Turns Protect Children from Language Isolation 
Children within the same classroom can have very different experiences. And for many children, part of their experience is language isolation. 
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Webinars
A young child and an adult sit on the floor playing with an educational board game inside a colorful, cartoon-style school building illustration, creating a language rich environment with books, a globe, pencil, and magnifying glass icons.
Webinar: What is a Language Environment? Making Space for Every Child’s Voice
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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A young child and an adult sit on the floor playing with an educational board game inside a colorful, cartoon-style school building illustration, creating a language rich environment with books, a globe, pencil, and magnifying glass icons.
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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Free Webinar: Interaction Data as Quality Systems Evolve

Every state’s quality system is designed to answer an important question: is a program providing high-quality care and learning experiences for children?

Yet quality is a moving target — in how it’s defined, how it’s measured, how it’s communicated, what it means for children in the classroom. As states evolve their approaches – some using rating systems and others emphasizing continuous quality improvement – understanding the indicators that matter most has never been more important.

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October 14 at 1:00 p.m. ET