Lena Klenke

Lena is a national nonprofit on a mission to transform children’s futures through early talk technology and data-driven programs. Lena online™ v3 is a platform for accessing lena's early talk technology and data-driven programs to transform children's futures. Meet our lena leadership team and board of directors.

Discover lena grow's impact on child development and teacher retention. Backed by 20+ years of research, lena grow focuses on the key marker of quality in early childhood education: Or, what lena calls “conversational turns.”

Our community advisory board brings together a coalition of leaders and thinkers across the early childhood community to inform key strategic decisions at lena. Lena’s researchers describe a child as experiencing language isolation if they engage in fewer than five conversational turns per hour for all but the single hour during which the most conversational turns. Lena grow is an evidence-based program designed to enhance language environments and improve outcomes for children through data-driven approaches.