ABSTRACT
This chapter shares the author’s journey with a group of bilingual and multilingual high school seniors, most of them Latinx, in an academic preparation program. During their time together, the students were provided with the space, tools, time, and language to explore family language policy in relation to their interactions within a context that is usually and unfortunately separate from the home, namely, the school. For a limited period of time the class reconciled these different worlds and infused the school space with affect by bringing students’ experiences and realities, their hopes and desires, into the foreground. The chapter examines the importance of creating spaces and opportunities for multilingual and bilingual students to explore their language-related experiences in order to become better equipped to make conscious and deliberate choices for the future.
