Resources to help recruit center directors, educators, and families.
You are excited to bring LENA Grow to your community. But how do you build that same excitement with your recruitment audience?
LENA Grow Recruitment online course
Create a recruitment plan for your program! Our online course features advice, tips, and real-life solutions to help build buy-in and excitement as you recruit for LENA Grow. Personalize your recruitment efforts with editable email templates and materials, plus get ideas, advice, and tips from other LENA partners.
Duration: 20 min
Shareable resources
LENA provides customizable resources to help raise awareness and support your program recruitment efforts. For ideas on how and when to use these resources to promote your program, visit the LENA Grow Recruitment course listed above.
Center directors
- Site Recruitment flyer
This flyer helps generate interest in the program. It highlights important details about the program along with testimonials and benefits. Customize with your recruitment information.
Download English | Spanish - Bringing LENA Grow to Your Site slide deck
This presentation explains the benefits and expectations of the LENA Grow program to center directors and site leaders. Use to generate interest in the program. Customize with your recruitment information.
Download English | Spanish - LENA Grow Provider Application template
Customizable Google form to help interested sites sign up to participate in LENA Grow.
Copy Google form - Site Guide
This document provides an overview of benefits and responsibilities for sites and center directors when their center participates in a LENA Grow program. Use this as a follow-up to the above slide deck presentation. The Site Agreement included at the end of this guide helps ensure providers you work with understand Grow program expectations and commitments.
Download Guide Download customizable Site Agreement
Educators
- Teacher Recruitment webpage
Encourage visiting this page to build excitement (and buy in) about participating in LENA Grow. Use to support first or follow-up conversations about LENA Grow. This page provides an overview of how LENA Grow works, video testimonials, and personal benefits of the program.
Visit English | Spanish - Our LENA Day story
This printable story uses real LENA Day photos and cute illustrations to help teachers share the important basics of a LENA Day with the children in their classroom. Available in English or Spanish.
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Families
- Introducing LENA Grow to Families slide deck
This presentation explains the LENA Grow program to families. Use to help families understand more about the program: how LENA Grow works, why teachers like it, how participating will benefit their child. Customize with your recruitment information.
Download English | Spanish - Family Recruitment flyer
This flyer highlights the benefits of conversational turns — plus the gains children experience from participating in the LENA Grow program.
Download English | Spanish - Family Recruitment webpage
Explain LENA Grow in family-friendly terms! Get an overview of what LENA Grow is, how it works, and the benefits of the program. Share with families to help answer the question: "Why should my child participate in LENA Grow?"
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