Call Me Dancer follows a 21-year-old street dancer from Mumbai, India who is torn between his artistic dreams and his struggling parents’ expectations. When he meets a feisty 75-year-old ballet master, a friendship evolves – and an adventure begins.
The Call Me Dancer teaching resources include:
- Learning Guide for Grades 2-6
- Learning Guide for Grades 6-12
- Mini Discussion Guide / Bell Ringer (3 -pages, printer-friendly) (Grades 4-12)
- Dance-Focused Slideshow, for Physical Education classes and related learning spaces. (Grades 4-12)
These resources incorporate materials created by teachers who screened the film in partnership with the film director.
They can be used in Career Studies, Economics, English Language Arts, Geography, International Relations, Music, Performing Arts, Physical Education, Social Emotional Learning, and Visual Arts classes.
They are valuable for global education, social emotional learning, building vocabulary and critical thinking skills, building classroom community, bolstering positive habits and more.
Teach about the Second World War using tools that work: strong visual storytelling in films that capture students’ attention and imagination. Our free discussion guides for these powerful documentaries bring history alive to boost student engagement. These films can be used in classes across the curriculum including not just History, US History, UK History, and WWII History, but also Computers and IT, Health, Psychology, Women’s History / Women’s Studies, and more.
Due to popular demand, we are offering a special second live session of this webinar on January 27, 2026! If you are new to this webinar series, learn more below and register now!
If you missed the first event in November 2025, now is your chance to catch up. If you were already able to join us in November, we’ll be including new material this time around and you are welcome to join us again. Look for an email from us in January with more details.
The Art of Inquiry webinar provides tools and strategies to help learners design meaningful driving questions and to structure their research plans as they explore primary and secondary sources with confidence and curiosity.
Event Date: January 27, 2026, 7-9 pm ET / 4–6 pm PT
Location: Online
Cost: Free
Art of Inquiry is the first of three sessions in the Stories That Connect: Using Film and Primary Sources to Build Belonging professional development webinar series. View all sessions.
If you have any questions or would like assistance with registration, please email Hershawna Frison: he*******@************lm.org.
The original November 2025 session included a live Q&A with Colin Gray, director of Unzipped: An Autopsy of American Inequality. We will be sharing the recording of this webinar as soon as it is available. To be notified when the recording is live, sign up for our newsletter.
Funded by a grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program. Content created and featured in partnership with the TPS program does not indicate an endorsement by the Library of Congress.
