The Art of Inquiry professional development 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.
Registration is currently open. All webinars are free.
Event Date: July 29, 4-6 pm PT / 7-9 pm ET
Location: Online
Cost: Free
If you have any questions or would like assistance with registration, please contact Hershawna Frison at hershawna@journeysinfilm.org.
The 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.
The original schedule for this webinar series was affected by the government shutdown in the fall of 2025. We are pleased to be offering a new, improved version of this series for the summer and fall of 2026.
With the relaunch of the webinar series, we are offering The Art of Inquiry webinar for the second time in July 2026. If you took the first version in 2025 , you are welcome and encouraged to join us for the new 2026 session which will include new materials. If you missed it the first time, you have a new chance to take advantage of this learning opportunity.
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.
This segment includes instruction on sourcing and analyzing assets from the Library of Congress (LOC) digital archives, equipping educators with concrete ways to bring authentic, historical voices into the classroom.
To take full advantage of this learning and tool-building opportunity, we recommend participating in all three webinar sessions.
At the end of the three-part webinar series, educator participants of any of the workshops will receive a Project-Based Learning Toolkit designed and developed over the course of the webinar series. Informed by the strategies and themes explored in each webinar, the toolkit will include practical insights, customizable templates, sample student project ideas, curated Library of Congress resources, and ready-to-use classroom strategies. It will be designed to strengthen learners’ research skills, particularly their ability to navigate archival collections, critically evaluate primary sources, and engage thoughtfully with multimedia cultural products.
Samantha Ramirez-Herrera is an award-winning filmmaker and storyteller whose work explores migration, memory, and cultural continuity through place-based narratives. She has spent over a decade documenting social and environmental movements across the U.S. and the globe, capturing stories at the intersection of identity, resilience, and transformation. In 2025, she was named an Explorers Club 50 (EC50) Explorer.
Through poetic yet grounded visual storytelling, Samantha bridges personal experience and collective history, creating work that fosters reflection, connection, and care across diverse audiences and institutions.
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