Dr. Kessler has been the principal of Hunters Lane High School since 2008 and is the most senior high school principal in the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools district. As co-author of The Principal’s Survival Guide-Where Do I Start? How Do I Succeed? When Do I Sleep (2015) Dr. Kessler has also written articles that have been published by Principal Leadership (NASSP) and Educational Leadership (ASCD) and has ten years of experience as an adjunct faculty member teaching undergraduate and graduate classes. Dr. Kessler testified (2015) before the United States Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions as an invited expert about her work in developing innovation in schools as part of the Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).