Contents Foreword by Mollie V. Blackburn ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: What's Really at Stake With Book Bans? 1 What Is Classroom Censorship and Why Are Books Being Banned . Again? 3 What Does Book Banning Look Like in the United States Today? 5 Why Iowa and What Is SF 496? 9 What Is the Local Resistance Framework (LRF) and How Do You Use It? 14 Who Is This Book for and What's in It? 17 1. Teacher Agency: Getting Ahead of the Chilling Effect 21 Tenet 1: Know the Law to Avoid Self-Censorship 23 Tenet 2: Understand Context by Analyzing Scrutiny and Support 29 Analyzing for Scrutiny and Support in Your Local Context 39 Conclusion: Combating the Chilling Effect With Teacher Agency 40 2. Professional Agency: What to Do When Things Go Wrong 43 Pleasing Parents 45 Arguing With Admin 54 Embracing the Exit 58 Conclusion: Assess Risk and Locate Professional Agency 64 3. Curricular Agency: Embracing Flexibility to Redesign for Student Resistance 67 Nora: Before and After 69 Redesigning Curricula for Student Resistance 74 Conclusion: Locate Curricular Agency Through Flexibility 85 4. Community Agency: Accessing Coalitional Networks to Fight Teacher Fatigue 87 Building Networks of Coalition: The "Powder Keg" Incident 89 Assessing the Risk and Reward of Resistance 95 Conclusion: Create a Circus Through Community Agency 100 5. Political Agency: Training Teachers to Be Policy-Prepared 103 Preservice Teachers and Their Political Concerns 105 The Advice: Being Policy-Prepared Within and Beyond Teacher Preparation 110 Conclusion: Locate Political Agency by Looking for Loopholes 121 Conclusion: Rewriting Book Bans 123 Tenet 1: Know the Law 125 Tenet 2: Understand Context 126 Tenet 3: Assess Risk 127 Tenet 4: Locate Agency 127 Implications 129 A Final Call to Action: How Will We End Our Story? 133 References 135 Appendix A: Iowa Legal Definition of "Sex Act" 141 Appendix B: Resources for Staying Informed 143 Appendix C: Scrutiny and Support Worksheet 145 Appendix D: Looking for Loopholes Resource 147 Index 149 About the Author 153.