Learning Loops

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The Learning Loops program aims to make literacy learning — both on and off the screen — a family experience. To do this, we create small-scale coach-family networks centered around children’s play on custom-built, open-ended literacy learning apps. Through building relationships between families and coaches, these networks empower young children as authors and facilitate children’s narrative development.

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