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GLEN Learn aligned with school readiness standards

GLEN Learn aligned with standardized school-readiness assessments

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We are excited to share that the learning content in GLEN Learn, GLEN World’s flagship learning app for young English Learners,  is now closely aligned with two research-backed school readiness assessments, the Kindergarten Student Entrance Profile (KSEP) and the Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP). KSEP and DRDP are used in school districts in California to […]

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What we learned from GLEN Learn’s pilot deployment at IVYP in Goleta, California

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Our flagship learning app, GLEN Learn, was piloted at the Isla Vista Youth Project (IVYP) Children’s Center in Goleta, California from November 2019 to March 2020. IVYP serves a large fraction of families with English Learners (ELs) in Santa Barbara, California, and has decades of experience providing a diverse set of educational and social programs

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GLEN Books mobile app now available: beautifully illustrated and warmly narrated children’s stories in English and Spanish

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We are excited to announce the public release of our GLEN Books app: available for free as an Android app on the Google Play Store and an iOS app on the Apple App Store! GLEN Books features a collection of illustrated children’s storybooks in English and Spanish, narrated (by our expert storytellers!) with synchronized text-highlight

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GLEN Learn: From Language Acquisition Principles to Digital Content

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While we are charting exciting new research territory with our goal of enabling “zero to reading” with minimal skilled supervision, our efforts are firmly grounded in decades of research in language learning and sociocultural psychology. Our team includes well-established ISLA and dual language learner education researchers from UC Santa Barbara and Carnegie Mellon University —

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GLEN World’s Learner Analytics Dashboard for Deployment and Research Partners

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A key advantage of digital learning is that we can use the data collected during the process of learning, not just to drive personalized adaptation of the learning content presented to the child in a given moment, but also to derive learning analytics for individuals and groups that can be used for longer-term understanding and

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“Zero to reading”? What? How?

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“Zero” means that we do not assume prior exposure to English, or indeed, to any other language. “Zero to reading” means guiding a child from “learning to read” to “reading to learn.” There is a significant research literature on “Instructed Second Language Acquisition,” or more simply, how to teach languages. This literature tells us that

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GLEN World: An Introduction

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In today’s globalized world, proficiency in English is the key to educational and economic opportunity.  Our mission at GLEN (GLobal ENglish) World is to scale English literacy to unlock these opportunities for every child.   The need for scaling is clear.  Even in an English speaking country like the United States, a significant percentage of schoolchildren

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