As a former middle school teacher, what brought me to Temple Law as a student was a not-fully-defined goal of partnering with youth to address education injustice through policy change. At the time I didn’t have the language of “movement lawyering” to describe my goal, but was fortunate to end up at the movement lawyering organization Advancement Project as an attorney on the education justice team. In this role I partnered with youth organizers across the country to provide legal and policy support for their education justice campaigns. We took on school policing, strengthened Sanctuary Schools policies, and built campaigns for school mental health from the ground up. I am honored to continue partnering on some of this work now. Returning to Temple as faculty, I was excited to see so much interest in movement lawyering among the student body. I also often receive questions (and sometimes field misconceptions) about what exactly movement lawyering is, questions that inspired me to write this piece based on my experience. To clear up a few things at the …