School Guides

Asian Arts and Artists

Sheila McGuire covered this content in Fall 2021 training, via this link.

Here are the slides:

Asian Arts and Artists

Here are the key ideas/suggested questions:

Asian arts and Artists key ideas and suggested questions

Black American Arts and Artists

Here are some artwork ideas:

Black American Arts and Artists slide deck

Key ideas/suggested questions:

to come

Here is a self-guided tour flier, with some questions and artwork information:

Self-Guide Template Celebration of African American Art final QR

Brown Bag for school guides, 10.27.22

Review of tour procedures, resources, and lead guide responsibilities.

Recording:

Brown Bag for School Guides on 10.27.22

Slides:

Brown Bag for School Tours

Starting areas for routes of topic tours

Modern and Contemporary Arts and Artists

Modern and Contemporary Arts and Artists slide set

Modern and Contemporary Art key ideas and suggested questions

Sources of Strength 2022-2023

Sources of Strength 2022

People and their Environments 2022-2023

People and Environments 2022

Let’s Celebrate Life 2022-2023

Lets Celebrate 2022 REDUCED

How People Lived 2022-2023

How People Lived 2022 REDUCED

Family, Friends, and Communities 2022-2023

Family & Friends 2022

Dressed for the Occasion 2022-2023

Cultural Reflections in Art 2022-2023

Cultural Reflections 2022

Artists’ Inspirations 2022-2023

Artist Inspirations 2022

American Stories 2022-2023

American Stories 2022

Amazing Animals in Art 2022-2023

Amazing Animals 2022

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:

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.

African Arts and Artists

Here is the recording of the Tour Break on African Arts and Artists with Sheila McGuire:

05.10.22 Tour Break African Arts and Artists

Here is the chat:

Tour Break Africa chat 05.10.22

Here are the slides from the presentation:

African Arts and Artists In-person tour slides

And here are the key ideas/suggested questions:

African Arts and Artists in-person tour

Art and Identity

Here is a link to the recording:

Tour Break: Art and Identity 04.21.22

Here is a link to the slides:

Here is the attendance feedback form:

Attendance feedback form for Art & Identity

Here are the key ideas and suggested questions:

Art and Identity art and artists key ideas and suggested questions

Peer resource document (add your ideas!):

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!):

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

Review for return to in-person tours, March 29, 2022

Here is the recording:

Review for return to in person tours on March 29 2022

Here are the slides:

Training 03.29.22_Return to in person tours (1)

Here is the chat:

return to in person tours chat 03.29.22

Art and Human Connections (Social and Emotional Learning tour)

Here is the slide deck, with suggested artworks:

Human Connections in person tour

Training on Human Connections in person tour

Here are key ideas/suggested questions:

Human Connections SEL tour in person tour

We had a Tour Break on March 24, with Sheila McGuire. Here is a link to the recording:

Tour Break: Art and Human Connections (SEL) 3.24.22

Peer resource document (add your ideas!):

Art & Human Connections