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Arkansas, say hello to LENA Grow

96% of teachers recommend it!

LENA Grow is evidence-based professional development that delivers powerful data without the hassle. Backed by 20+ years of research, LENA Grow focuses on the key marker of quality in early childhood education: teacher-child interactions.

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100,000+ children

attend child care or preschool in Arkansas.

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1 in 5 children

spends most of the day in language isolation.

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Only 1 in 14 children

gets the optimal amount of language interaction.

LENA Grow Empowers Early Childhood Education

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LENA helps create Better Beginnings in Arkansas.

You can’t improve what you don’t measure. LENA Grow measures — and improves — the teacher-child interactions that play such a large role in the Better Beginnings quality improvement system and the Arkansas Child Development and Early Learning Standards.

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Improving child outcomes, and proving our results.

Studies show that increasing interactions with LENA Grow boosts CLASS® scores, early literacy skills, kindergarten readiness, teacher confidence, and more. 

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LENA Grow preschool classrooms saw significant increases in all three CLASS® domains, especially Instructional Support.

Children in LENA Grow classrooms saw significant increases in TS GOLD® early literacy scores.

Children in LENA Grow classrooms were approximately two times more likely to demonstrate school readiness on the BRIGANCE, i-Ready®, and KRA assessments.

Teachers who participated in LENA Grow reported feeling significantly more valued as early childhood professionals.

Five Weeks That Change Everything

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Teachers are loving LENA Grow

  • 91% of Arkansas teachers report improved language development in their children after LENA Grow.
  • 92% would recommend LENA Grow to other teachers.
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LENA helped me to connect more with my children and to take more chances with them. I like that the program was not complicated to understand or learn. It didn’t take up a lot of my time.

– Lesley Lemus, teacher at The Learning Center of North Arkansas, Green Forest Campus

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Ready to transform your early childhood program in Arkansas?

Whether you’re ready to implement LENA Grow or just want to learn more, we’d love to connect. 

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Connect with Jodi Whiteman

Senior Director of Partnerships JodiWhiteman@LENA.org

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