**Separate registration required. Please register at the TNLA website.**This is an interactive session that promotes academic discourse among educators about how family dynamics and choices affect the literacy of our students. Participants will put themselves in the shoes of our underserved students and families by selecting a career and working through daily choices as a group. These real world choices determine if a student comes to school and if their basic needs are met by their parents or guardians. All these decisions ultimately affect student literacy and performance in school.