Where are we now? Book-banning and Censorship in 2024
Details
Presenters
Courtney Pentland, AASL Past-President
Tasslyn Magnusson, PEN America
Date & Time
September 10, 2024 7:30 pm EST
Tags
Curriculum and Instruction
Description
Last fall, NCHE and NCSS co-hosted a virtual Equity Summit on book banning and censorship. We discussed current efforts to censor books and other learning materials, and learned from educators currently in classroom or library spaces. In this conversation, we will get up-to-date data about the current state of censorship in schools and libraries across the country: where are we now, and what can we do about it? This webinar is for all, whether or not you attended last year’s Summit.
Courtney Pentland
Co-presenter, “Where are we now? Book-banning and Censorship in 2024”
Courtney Pentland is the high school librarian at North Star High School in Lincoln, Nebraska. She is adjunct faculty for the University of Nebraska-Omaha School Library program and has served on the Nebraska School Librarians Association board as board member at large, president, and chapter delegate to AASL. She is the 2023-2024 AASL President.
Tasslyn Magnusson
Co-presenter, “Where are we now? Book-banning and Censorship in 2024”
Tasslyn Magnusson is a Program Consultant with Freedom to Read at PEN America. She researches censorship attempts in the K-12 libraries and supports PEN Ameria’s work in creating resources to support authors whose work is targeted. Tasslyn received her BA from University of Minnesota-Morris, MA from Hamline University and a PhD in American History from Case Western Reserve University. After twenty years of work in the fundraising sector in Cleveland, California, and Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Tasslyn returned to school, receiving an MFA in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University in Saint Paul, MN. Her poems have been published in Rogue Agent Journal, Room Magazine, The Mom Egg Review, and others. She was nominated for a 2018 and 2020 Pushcart Prize in poetry. Her chapbook, “defining,” (dancing girl press) was published in January 2019.