Sara Kajder, Ph.D. is a faculty member at the University of Georgia, and a recent middle school Professor in Residence. A former member of the faculties of the University of Pittsburgh and Virginia Tech, her teaching across grades 6 – graduate has been anchored in assisting students to connect out of school literacies with in-school literacies – including helping students read and create multimodal texts, communicate their meaning-making through a variety of modes, and purposefully engage in collaborative digital environments. Regardless of the tool(s) we use, Kajder focuses on the uses of new literacies to affirm the literacies students bring into our classrooms, to produce knowledge, and to put students’ knowledge to work. Two-time recipient of the National Technology Leadership Fellowship, she is the author of five books for teachers including the 2012 James Britton Award winning Adolescents’ Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students (NCTE, 2011). She currently serves as the co-editor of the NCTE journal, Voices from the Middle.