A conference co-sponsored by The Department of Education of the School of Education & Information Studies (SEIS) and the SEIS Language, Literacy, & Learning Collaborative (LLLC). Two days of papers and commentary bringing together researchers and practitioners across the prek-16+ educational spectrum with a range of epistemologies and methodological approaches to address social, linguistic, and racial equity and the “gate-keeping” role of language as it functions in classrooms and academic accountability testing.