When educators engage in professional learning that is standards-based and led by an administrator who engaged in a standards-aligned preparation program and works in a state that has adopted standards for school leadership, there is greater potential for everyone in the system to develop the beliefs, values, knowledge, and skills to improve their practices and, in turn, student results. For school leaders, the National Educational Leadership Preparation standards and the Professional Standards for Educational Leaders are essential links in creating a chain of aligned knowledge and support. When they are integrated with Standards for Professional Learning, the whole chain is stronger, and the result is improved teaching and learning. As a member of Learning Forward's Standards Advisory Council, Jacquelyn Wilson saw how the revised standards were developed with those linkages in mind. In this article, she offers a window into that alignment process to help other school leaders create a coherent, systemic approach to implementing standards.