Unmapped Potential: An Educator's Guide to Lasting Change

Feeling overextended, discouraged, or stressed? No matter where you are in your educational career, chances are you have, at times, felt overwhelmed and overworked. Maybe you feel that way right now. If so, you aren’t alone. But the more important news is that things can get better! You simply need the right map to help you move from frustrated to fulfilled. Unmapped Potential: An Educator’s Guide to Lasting Change can help you find your unique path to becoming the kind of educator—the kind of person—you want to be. You’ll learn… What your mental map is and how it shapes your thoughts and actions Why and how changing your thoughts can improve your results What self-limiting (perhaps, subconscious) beliefs may be preventing you from moving forward How you communicate your limiting or empowering beliefs to students and colleagues—without saying a word How to create habits that support the kind of life you want to live Sharing personal stories and drawing on mind-set and brain research, principals Julie Hasson and Missy Lennard reveal strategies that will help you create lasting, positive change for you, your colleagues, and your students.

Catherine "Missy"Lennard has over twenty years of experience as an educator and over fifteen years as an elementary school administrator. Missy has served as a principal for most of her career and still leads the school she opened in 2009. She has mentored many aspiring and early career administrators, and she is a lead principal in her district. She is passionate about empowering teachers and growing positive school cultures.
 
Julie Hasson was a school administrator for ten years before recently becoming a professor and coordinator of the Educational Leadership Program in the School of Education at Florida Southern College. When she is not writing, collaborating, and conspiring with her Purposeful Principals partner, Julie teaches and mentors graduate students and preservice teachers. Julie earned her doctorate at the University of South Florida in 2011.

Together, Missy and Julie formed Purposeful Principals in 2014 with a mission to help fellow educators teach and lead with more peace, hope, and purpose. Through writing, speaking, and coaching, they focus on changing limiting patterns into empowering practices in classrooms and schools across the nation.