This three-year study is supporting five urban middle and secondary teacher-researchers in creating teaching and learning contexts that are responsive to the new literacy practices of adolescents. These practices may include creating images, music, narration, dialogue, and other writing in MySpace pages, ‘zines, digital stories, popular culture magazines, and/or song lyrics. The project hopes not only to help create the structures that bridge adolescents’ out-of-school and in-school literacy practices, but also to build upon and apply in the classroom the key concepts participants are learning in a masters course on literacy teaching and learning. Findings also have the potential to inform teacher educators and the development of practice and theory in the broader literacy field.