This document summarizes key trends affecting education and argues schools must change to prepare students. It notes increased diversity, technology use, and globalization, and an aging population. Technology is changing society rapidly. Creativity and skills like collaboration are increasingly important. While schools focus on the industrial age, students learn skills outside of school needed in today's world. Schools risk becoming irrelevant if they do not change faster than the rate of change outside. Leadership is needed for anticipatory, future-oriented change in schools.