This enlightening and engaging workshop will provide a compelling overview of the key events leading to today’s racism, tying together the past and the present. It will delve into the historical factors nationally, and in Wisconsin, that have contributed to what we know today as the achievement gap. Using the experience of the Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District, which serves rural, suburban and urban communities, the workshop will provide attendees with practical examples of how to address the opportunity gaps for their students. Learn how the district is proactively working to understand and change its current educational practices (both individual and systemic) that have perpetuated opportunity gaps.