Programs

StaffSavvy Training resource page

Welcome to our Resource Page for StaffSavvy, our tour scheduling system. As we continue to train on this system, we will post materials on this resource page.

Here is a link to the slides from our Info Sessions in November 2023:

Training 11.17.23 StaffSavvy session

Here is a link to the video for our refresher on Sept. 20, 2022:

StaffSavvy refresher 09.20.22

Here is a link to the slides:

Training 09.20.22 StaffSavvy session

 

Here is a direct link to StaffSavvy:

StaffSavvy

Here is the recording for our introduction on May 26, 2022, to the new scheduling system, StaffSavvy:

Introduction to tour assignments in StaffSavvy

Here is the chat file:

StaffSavvy chat 05.26.22

Here are the slides:

Training 5.26.22 StaffSavvy session

The three videos we sent out to introduce the system are here:

Video 1: Introduction and changing your password

Video 2: Updating your photo and profile

Video 3: How to do a checkout or leave request

To send a group message to multiple guides in StaffSavvy, go to My Account/My Messages, then select “Send a New Message” in the top menu bar. In the “To” line, you can enter multiple guide names. Click on “Send Message” to send the message. If you are uncertain if all guides in your tour assignment are using StaffSavvy messaging, you can use email addresses provided in the guide rosters.

Art and Activism

Here is the recording to the required Tour Break on Art and Activism:

Tour Break Art and Activism 4.12.22

And here is the chat:

Tour Break Art and Activism chat 04.13.22

Here is the link for the attendance feedback form. Please complete if you attended or watched the video:

Attendance feedback form for Art and Activism 04.12.22

Here are the slides for the tour:

Art and Activism_DH

Here are key ideas and suggested questions:

Art and Activism key ideas and suggestions

Peer resource document (add your ideas!):

Art & Activism 

A resource shared by Kate Christianson, of a tour from the Art Institute of Chicago: Art and Activism 

Highlights of Mia’s Collection

Tour Break, 1.27.22 recording:

Highlights tours for school and adult audiences

Here are the tour presentation slides:

Sheila’s slides for younger students:

Highlights of Mia’s Collection for K-5 in person tours slide deck

Debbi’s slides for older students//adults:

Highlights of Mia’s Collection_Gr 6-12_in person

 

Key ideas and suggested questions:

Highlights of Mia’s Collection for K-5 in-person tour

Highlights of Mia’s Collection Gr 6-12 key ideas and questions

12.9.21 Combined CE session Trauma Awareness

Here is a link to the recording:

12.9.21 combined guide CE session 

Here is the chat:

Guide session 12.9.21 chat

Please fill out the attendance feedback form:

Attendance feedback form for 12.9.21 session

Here are Kestrel’s slides:

MIA Trauma presentation

Here are Andrew’s slides:

Trauma-Aware Art Museum Education for MIA Guides

See the chat for additional resources recommended by your peers.

Here is one other video recommended by Kestrel (see her slides for additional resource links):

How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime | Nadine Burke Harris

Here is an additional resource from Kestrel:

The Inattentive, Impulsive and Hyperactive Child: Is Childhood Trauma Buried Amongst ADHD?

Here are the titles to the artworks from CAM that Andrew used in his presentation:

Eleanor Antin – Untitled (from The King of Solana Beach), 1974-1975

Eve Arnold – Retired Worker, China, 1979

 

 

12.2.21 Combined session: Arts of Asia and Modern & Contemporary Art

Here is a link to the recording of the session:

CE session 12.2.21 Arts of Asia and Modern & Contemporary Art

Here is the chat:

CE session chat 12.2.21

Here are the presentation slides:

2021 Training 12.02.21_Combined Guides_Cultural Fluency Arts of Asia

Here is the feedback form for the session; please fill this out for your attendance credit:

Feedback on 12.2 session

Here is a direct link to the online resources page for teachers, and Arts of Asia is at the top of the page:

Online Resources

 

11.18.21 Combined session Talking about Race

Here are the presentation slides:

2021 Training 11.18.21_Combined Guides_Talking about race

Here is the recording:

11.18 Guides session Talking about Race

Here is the chat:

Guide session 11.18 chat

Here is the attendance feedback form:

Feedback for 11.18.21

 

A reflection written by your colleague, Boyd Ratchye that was published in MinnPost:

White Americans need to recognize the guardrails of white privilege present in our everyday lives

From your colleague Kate Christianson, a suggested series of short videos: Jim Stewart’s Tonic for Fragile White Folks

Materials for the Black American Arts and Artists Tour will be available within the School Tour Topics within the next few weeks.

Homework for our next session on December 2 (1 -3 PM) will be sent the week of November 29.

 

 

11.11.21 Combined Guide session, Native Arts and Culture

Here are the presentation slides:

2021 Training 11.11.21_Combined Guides_Native American Arts

Here is a link to the recording:

11.11.21 Mia Guide session

Here is the chat:

Guide session 11.11.21 chat

Here is the attendance feedback form:

Feedback for 11.11.21

Various resources were mentioned in the session:

Beyond Land Acknowledgement from the Native Governance Center

Native Art, Native Voices: A resource for K-12 Educators

Additional resources to learn more about the Indigenous communities within Minnesota:

Fort Snelling has worked to acknowledge the troubling history of the site in connection to the removal of the Dakota people:

Learn history of Bdote/Fort Snelling

As part of that effort, the Bdote memory map was created. “Enjoy this beginning resource for understanding more about the Dakota people’s relationship to Minnesota.:: Bdote Memory Map

From Metropolitan State University: 11 nations and flags of Minnesota Native Americans

Check out the exhibit that is at Hoċokata Ti (the Mdewakanton cultural center in Shakopee):

MDEWAKANTON: DWELLERS OF THE SPIRIT LAKE

 

For the next session on November 18 (virtual, at 1PM), here is the homework:

We are linking to three articles to read for the next session. We will discuss the first article in small groups:
We would like to spend part of the session in reflection together, focused on the events in our own communities and lives which occurred with George Floyd’s murder and the subsequent racial reckoning and civil unrest in our community. This reflection time together is optional, and we will hold space for it in the second half of this session.

In advance, we’d ask you to consider the following reflection questions:

  • In what ways did the events impact you, personally? In what ways did the events impact those you know?
  • How did your thoughts shift on the presence of racism in our community?
  • In what ways might this racial reckoning impact how we (guides and staff) interact with visitors at Mia?

We envision small group discussions where we will ask one person in each group to act as a facilitator, to allow for all to share their thoughts. We will provide meeting agreements for this portion of the session.

11.4.21 Adult guide session, book tour development

Here is the recording:

11.4.21 Adult Guide session book tours

Here are the presentation slides:

2021 Training 11.04.21_Adult Guides

Here is a link to the attendance feedback form:

Feedback form for 11.4.21 book tour development

Here is a an article on book tours by Emily Shapiro in the September 2018 Muse:

Sep Muse 2018

We have three options for peer learning on book tours coming up, 2 in-person and 1 virtual. We are keeping registration limited for the in-person tours to 10 people, and are asking all attendees to wear a mask. Waitlists are enabled, so we will see what interest there is for another tour if needed. To register for an in-person tour, click on the links below:

Emily’s tour, Friday, November 19, 1 PM

Ginny’s tour, Tuesday, November 30, 11 AM

Lynn’s tour, virtual, Thursday, December 2, 6:30 PM. Zoom link to come closer to the date.

These are the links for the homework for our combined session next week, on November 11, at 1 PM:

To prepare for next week’s session, watch the video “Language Matters: How to Talk about Native Nations” or read through the video summary HOW TO TALK ABOUT NATIVE NATIONS: A GUIDE from the Native Governance Center.

Also, if time, watch Juan Lucero’s talk, especially from 21 minutes to 36 minutes:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/2905962/video/609999279

 

11.4.21 School guide session, touring teens

Here is the recording:

11.4.21 school guide session touring high school students

(A note on the conversation with teacher Craig Farmer. If you are watching the recording, please realize that Craig is speaking about touring his own students. The tour he gives as an example is not a tour that Mia guides would be assigned to give; however, he has some great tips on how to connect and engage with teens.)

Here is the chat:

11.4.21 school guide chat

Here is a link to the full video from Kathryn D’Elia, Perpich Center for Arts Education. It has some wonderful information about engaging with teens:

Kathryn D’Elia  video

Here are the presentation slides:

2021 Training 11.04.21_School Guides_Grades 10-12

Here is a link to the attendance feedback form:

Feedback form for 11.4.21 touring teens

Craig Farmer mentioned two handouts he gives his class:

MCAD M.I.A. Scavenger Hunt 2019

Mia Guide Handout

These are the links for the homework for our combined session next week, on 11.11.21 at 1 PM:

To prepare for next week’s session, watch the video “Language Matters: How to Talk about Native Nations” or read through the video summary HOW TO TALK ABOUT NATIVE NATIONS: A GUIDE from the Native Governance Center.

Also, if time, watch Juan Lucero’s talk, especially from 21 minutes to 36 minutes:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/2905962/video/609999279

November 11, 1 to 3 pm, virtual (combined session for all guides)