The Curriculum and Pedagogy group is a gathering of diverse individuals seeking academic enrichment, social action, and professional engagement; Our conference is an annual space where work can be shared, valued, and disseminated to a diverse audience committed to educational reform and social change. The conference creates democratic spaces to advance public moral leadership in education through dialogue and action. It is characterized by its commitment to classroom teachers, school administrators and curriculum workers and in providing a venue for under-represented groups. The conference organizers seek to bring together individuals from diverse settings, including school district curriculum leaders and K-12 teachers, non-governmental community groups and organizations, graduate students and scholars from public schools to universities who seek to integrate, interrogate, and develop curriculum and pedagogical theories into action for educational empowerment and social justice.