Kentucky's educators are creating systemic change to produce noticeable improvements in learning for all students. Systemic change has vexed education systems for decades (Tyack & Cuban, 1999). In recent years, it has become clear that implementation science is the missing ingredient in efforts to purposefully improve student outcomes in state systems (Fixsen, Blase, Metz, & Van Dyke, 2013; Fixsen, Blase, Ward, Jackson, & Coffey, in preparation). The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has taken a thoughtful and persistent approach to systemic change in partnership with its educators and communities. Kentucky has documented the initial changes in the education system and the benefits to system alignment and cohesion for improved outcomes. This paper summarizes a few of the key actions of Kentucky's educators here, as well as some of the results of their efforts so far. In 2014, with the support of the State Implementation and Scaling up of Evidence Based Practices (SISEP) Center, Kentucky began to develop its implementation infrastructure and capacity, with goals for student learning in the area of math, as they developed the knowledge and skills to use the Active Implementation Frameworks.