b'Figure 4. Concerning Motherhood (detail), image courtesy of the authorPossibilities for the ClassroomThisdigitalstoryisonlyoneexample,andaverypersonaloneat that. Regardless, it holds promise in both product and process for secondary and post-secondary art classrooms. Adolescents are in a significant time of identity formation and exploration, of discovering their story. Thus, offering an experience that allows students to speculate on the possibilities and power of choice may help them better understand who they are in the present and how they develop over time, while discerning the emerging self that they wish to cultivate in the future. Imagine a project in which students consider not only what they want to do after graduation, but how these possibilities might alter their life in the now. They let it all play out in their mind and on the page, with nothing off limits. They expand their perspectives to question why they think this way in the first place: Am I choosing something different than what Ive always known in my family, or something familiar? How does my visual culture influence me? They write stories that compose who they are and who they long to be. Rather than producing another clich about identity, such a project would encourage students to expand their self-awareness, critiquing their development in light of the trajectory of their interconnected experiences.TRENDS 202553'