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Caring About Children Is the Beginning. Knowing How to Help Matters.
Adults who care for, teach, mentor, coach, counsel, and advocate for children want them to be safe, supported, and successful. But caring doesn't always mean knowing what to say, what to look for, or how to respond when a child is struggling.
Landon Learns training experiences help close that gap by equipping adults with practical knowledge, tools, and strategies they can use to better support the children in their care.
RECOGNIZE
Help adults recognize what they’re seeing.
Build the knowledge to identify warning signs, distinguish between different behaviors and situations, and better understand what a child may be experiencing.
RESPOND
Help adults know what to do next.
Develop practical strategies for responding to concerns, communicating with children, addressing difficult situations, and determining when additional action or support is needed.
EQUIP
Give adults tools they can actually use.
Leave with practical resources, language, activities, conversation strategies, and tools that can be applied with children at home, at school, and in the community.
Practical Training. Real-World Application.
Landon Learns training experiences are built around practical tools, real-world scenarios, and ready-to-use strategies that help adults recognize concerns, respond appropriately, and create safer, more supportive environments for children.
Bullying vs. Conflict
Learn to distinguish conflict from bullying, identify power imbalances and harmful behaviors, and determine when adult intervention is needed. Your existing framework already addresses equal vs. unequal power, repeated/intentional behavior, harm, and identity-targeted behavior.
Responding, Reporting & Documenting
Practical guidance for protecting and listening to the child, addressing behavior, planning repair, communicating with families, documenting incidents, monitoring patterns, and knowing when to escalate.
Helping Children Find Their Voice
Use your existing Bravery Scripts and role-play activities to help children practice what to say during conflict, bullying, exclusion, and other difficult situations—and when to get an adult involved.
Partnering With Parents & Caregivers
Your existing CARE Parent/Caregiver Conversation Model gives you an entire training opportunity around handling difficult family conversations: Clarify, Acknowledge, Respond and Empower.
Building Safer, More Respectful Environments
Train adults to use the Pause Strategy, restorative circles, peer helpers/student ambassadors and other practical approaches that build emotional regulation, empathy, problem-solving and student leadership.
Identity, Belonging & Student Voice
Your existing culturally responsive practices address affirming identity, active listening, student leadership, names and languages, belonging, and responding to identity-based harm.
See the Training in Action
Hear directly from educators and education leaders who experienced Angela M. Odom's Bullying vs. Conflict training at the National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE) Conference.
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About the Author
Angela M. Odom is a retired Army Colonel, leadership coach, and award-winning author with a passion for empowering young readers to become confident, empathetic leaders.
As the creator of the LANDON LEARNS Early Reader Series, Angela draws on her extensive leadership and storytelling experience to address important topics like:
- Bullying
- Self-control
- Personal safety
She brings these subjects to life in a way that resonates with children.
Angela believes that every child has the potential to be a leader. Inspired by her own journey as a parent and mentor, she created Landon’s adventures to spark meaningful conversations about critical life skills and values between:
- Kids
- Parents
- Educators
In addition to the LANDON LEARNS early series, Angela is the author of:
- Bronco Strong: A Memoir of the Last Deployed Personnel Services Battalion: A powerful account of resilience, leadership, and camaraderie during a historic military deployment
- Golom's Magical Gamers: A captivating tale for young readers created during the pandemic to inspire creativity and teamwork
She is also a contributing writer to the anthology Camouflaged Sisters: Leadership Through the Eyes of Senior Military Women.
Angela’s mission is to inspire both children and adults to embrace their leadership potential and make a positive impact in their communities.
Discover Angela’s Other Works
Army veterans' memoir tells the story of Army life in a combat zone for her Human Resources troops.
Imagine being at work, or lying in your bed, or even sitting wherever you are right now…and knowing that at any moment the world could literally explode around you. Without warning.
In her stirring memoir, Bronco Strong, Angela M. Odom, a personnel services battalion commander, recounts daily life as a soldier in an active war zone during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Odom came into command of the 15th Personnel Services Battalion in 2006, and immediately they were deployed to Baghdad via Kuwait. The soldiers under her command had proven themselves before in the same theater of war. But things had changed in their time at home, and now they found themselves walking into a living nightmare.
The soldiers of Task Force Bronco bravely endured, fulfilling their monumentally difficult support tasks throughout a grueling fifteen-month extended deployment. But things didn’t always go according to plan.
Ryan and his dearest cousins live in different states and don’t get to see one another often. There’s nothing he can do about it. One morning, his mother sends him to the basement to get some boring stuff adults need. She gives him a list so that he won’t forget what she needs. As Ryan is looking at this list, the weirdest thing happens. The words his mom wrote begin to rearrange themselves on the paper. It says, “Ryan, It’s Your Time to Know.”
“Uh, know what?” Ryan asks the paper but, it doesn’t respond. Ryan soon sees a map that takes him to the basement and beyond. Ryan follows that map and meets the God of Game, Golom. Since that conversation with Golom, Ryan’s day gets really weird.
Magically, Ryan gets back to his room.
He thinks that it must be a dream.
As he’s about to meet his cousins on a video call,
Ryan steps out of his world and into a game.
There he sees all his cousins!
However, there’s trouble in the midst of this
great reunion. Will they conquer the evil they
face or fall victims to these troubles?
The journey to becoming an effective leader can be full of stumbling blocks and learning curves. But for women, particularly those pursuing a career in male-dominated settings, learning to lead can be a tumultuous road. Camouflaged Sisters: Leadership Through the Eyes of Senior Military Women Leaders examines the grit, perseverance, and determination it takes to rise through military ranks as a woman in uniform.
In this anthology, twelve trailblazing women leaders recount tales of the adversity they faced to gain the trust of their Troops, earn the respect of their peers, and make promotion. Their stories offer candid advice to women leaders learning to navigate a system that is not always supportive of their success. The leadership toolkit offered in these pages provides readers a vital resource for achieving a successful military career. Young women leaders will find this anthology invaluable to their leadership journey.
