Accidental Lessons: A Memoir of a Rookie Teacher and a Life Renewed

Facing the death of his father, the end of a marriage, and the loss of a career, author David W. Berner takes on one of the biggest challenges in his life – he accepts a teaching position in an impoverished and troubled Chicago-area school district. What the author discovers changes everything.

Accidental Lessons is the story of unforeseen lessons learned from unexpected people and places. It’s the story of how the struggle to find our place in the world ultimately reawakens us, reinvents our lives, and offers hope in second chances.

Accidental Lessons is a remarkable memoir by Chicago journalist and author David W. Berner.