Introduction Education experts have spent many years planning and revising instructional materials and assessment tools to meet the ever-changing social and economic teaching and learning needs in the United States . The rapid growth of technology means that change is constant in education. Educators learn very quickly that change is an inevitable aspect of their position and that effective transformation by stakeholders at all levels is required to meet these needs. Whether approaching the crisis in American education from the perspective of experience in schools, or from the analysis of market forces in the private sector and the factors necessary for institutional innovation, or from the movement to empower poor and minority communities, it is clear that what we call “public education” must change (Grego, 2011). The history of the school system in the United States shows that the standard for teaching was centered on addressing the challenges of both the agricultural and industrial eras, and according to Duffy (2010), it was a fixed approach to teaching, designed for sorting students rather than for learning, in order to educate large numbers of children and to distinguish workers from managers. However, the knowledge age requires stakeholders to reevaluate the requirements needed to educate our children in the future. This societal paradigm shift is broad and pervasive, requiring institutions to evolve together in creating more personalized approaches to organizational design, customer service, and service delivery so that students can succeed in the knowledge age. twenty-first century (Duffy, 2010). The purpose of this article is to share a planned and unplanned change that took place......middle of paper...m! Create! Hold up! Master the art and science of transforming school systems. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Grego, D. (2011). The changing meaning of “public education” in Milwaukee: Converting a school system into a system of schools. Encounter, 24(3), 1-10.Huang, T., Beachum, F. D., White, G. P., Kaimal, G., Fitzgerald, A., & Reed, P. (2012). Preparing urban school leaders: What works? Planning and Change, 43(1/2), 72-95.Office of Vocational and Adult Education. (2012). Investing in America's future: A blueprint for transforming career and technical education. Office of Professional and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved from http://www.eric.ed.gov/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED532493Richter, K. B., & Reigeluth, C. M. (2007). Systematic transformation in public school systems. FM Duffy reports, 12(4), 1-24.