Race Matters: Putting Race on the Table Speaker Series, professional development to deepen our understanding of the profound impact of race on student learning and well-being and to investigate the role that systems of racial inequity play in institutionalizing and perpetuating academic achievement disparities. If our teaching is to be more effective, and if we are to achieve equitable district-wide outcomes for struggling students consistent with the aspirations and requirements of the Voluntary Resolution Plan and ELA, Math, and Science teams, we must examine policy, practices, systems, and structures through an equity lens. We must interrupt practices that maintain opportunity and achievement gaps. In the first year of the Race Matters series, our fifteen (15) sessions ranged from checking and changing our systems of equity, using restorative justice to eradicate racial disparity in discipline, identity safe classrooms, SEL, STEM to the theatre of the oppressed, trauma informed-care and schools as healing places.