One of the issues connected to the use of standards in independent schools is the varying approaches to an astonishing variety of school missions. Independent school administrators and teachers often see national standards to be the purview of the professionals they hire. As a result, teachers and department heads work to select standards that support the curriculum they feel fits their student body. Another obstacle to implementing standards in this environment centers on the age-old problem of administrators who do not understand the profession of librarianship. While most heads of school and division directors have been classroom teachers at some point in their careers, these same individuals--who also supervise librarians and library programs in independent schools--often do not have education degrees and are limited by their own personal idea of what constitutes an effective school library program and a professional school librarian. The author has used the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Standards internally throughout her career to calibrate her information literacy program, but she wondered: Could the latest iteration of the standards--which include the application of each standard to not only learners, but also to the practice of school librarians and their programs and spaces--be an advocacy tool she could use with other members of her school community? However he did not understand the new AASL Standards herself until she attended a session on them at the 2018 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference. After the session, she and her fellow school librarians decided to form a reading group to go over the standards. This article describes the reading group and the impact it had on their professional development.