Dear friend of GLEN World, Our very best wishes to you and your loved ones as we head into the holiday season. This is a time to reflect on all that we have accomplished in terms of helping children take the first steps towards literacy and school readiness. Regarding our work here at home in …
Dear friend of GLEN World, The challenges posed by these Covid-19 years have inspired us at GLEN World to work harder than ever to help children take their first steps towards literacy and school readiness. With spring in full swing, and the pandemic hopefully entering its final phase, we are taking a moment to reflect …
Dear friend of GLEN World, Hope you are staying healthy and safe. Our very best wishes to you and your loved ones as we head into the holiday season. It’s been another difficult year for everyone as the Covid-19 pandemic drags on. Here at GLEN World, we are taking a moment to reflect on all …
The GLEN (GLobal ENglish) World team is excited to announce the public release of GLEN Learn, our app for early English literacy and school readiness, as an iOS app and as an Android app. The GLEN Learn app guides children through the building blocks of early English literacy and is aligned with research-based standards for …
GLEN (GLobal ENglish) World is excited to announce that Donna Barranco Fisher and Prof. Emeritus Mike Furlong have joined our board to help us take the next step in our journey. Donna and Mike are joining our board at a pivotal moment. We are embarking on a multi-year strategic plan focusing on school readiness for …
GLEN World welcomes two new board members: Donna Barranco Fisher and Michael Furlong Read More »
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 …
GLEN Learn aligned with standardized school-readiness assessments Read More »
Dear friends of GLEN World, Hope you and your loved ones are safe and healthy. What a year this has been! As the scope of the pandemic started becoming clear early this year, we decided to double down on our efforts to make our learning content globally accessible to children stuck at homes everywhere. As …
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 …
What we learned from GLEN Learn’s pilot deployment at IVYP in Goleta, California Read More »
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 …
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 — …
GLEN Learn: From Language Acquisition Principles to Digital Content Read More »