LENA Grow provides practice-based professional development for infant, toddler, pre-K teachers, and family child care providers. Children wear talk pedometers one day per week for the five weeks of implementation. The talk pedometer measures back-and-forth teacher and child interactions that are recorded to document conversational turns in the classroom.
LENA Grow helps to improve children's language, literacy, and social-emotional development while improving both teacher satisfaction and classroom quality.
As a participating provider, teachers will participates in coaching sessions provided by the ELC to learn new techniques and talk strategies while families receive weekly resources to use at home.
For More Information
Contact the ELC of Manatee County's Community Educational Initiatives Team
(941) 212-4996
communityengagement@elc-manatee.org
