Maria Freda Email & Phone Number

Hamden, Connecticut, United States

Hamden, CT

• ▶ SCOPE: Oversee residential services department with $450K budget, managing team of 30 (18 direct reports) working in reception area, security, and transportation. Identify and monitor KPIs to advance program.
• Orchestrated Whitney Center Wellness Festival, offering venue for residents that highlights special interests in exercise, nutrition, spiritual mindfulness, and social opportunities.
• Facilitated launch of multiple events to foster engagement in the community. Featured contributing writers to Whitney Center’s Staytainment newsletter.
• Devised creative ways for residents to stay engaged during COVID-19 pandemic.
• Improved performance, productivity, and impact of team. Initiated 30-60-90 coaching and performance evaluations for staff. Expanded opportunities for growth on individual level with focus on skill, culture, and.
• Enhanced on-campus communications networks through the use of print and digital platforms, offering multiple options for residents to engage. Designed and produced MyWCLife, resident-centric newsletter published weekly.

New Haven, CT

• ▶SCOPE: Promoted from assistant teacher in first grade to head teacher for fourth grade students. Developed lesson plans to empower students, integrating special projects and theatrical productions to engage learning..
• Produced newsletter, Class/Room/News to encourage communication and engagement, facilitating interdisciplinary planning and programming with academic departments. Designed and produced The First Grade Herald weekly.
• Facilitated opportunities for parent involvement and community outreach. Fostered Parent Speaker Series and wrote colonial-themed play for fourth grade to encourage engagement. Orchestrated field trips to integrate.
• Developed innovative 8-week program for first graders, introducing everyday objects as building components for study of stability, materials, shape, pattern, and form.
• Facilitated rise of students’ standardized testing scores to top 10th percentile within national standing for independent schools. Applied STEAM projects including construction of life-size model of Leatherback turtle.

Hamden, CT

Westport, CT

• ▶ SCOPE: Leveraged natural communication ability and people skills in sales and customer experience role as creative liaison. Advanced mission-driven values of the organization by delivering top-notch quality in.
• Increased sales 140% in one month. Recognized with RH Hero People Award for outstanding client service. Earned commendations for product presentation style, innovative outreach, and leadership. Offered natural design.

New Haven, CT

• Author & Researcher of Putting the Classroom to Work: How Does a Classroom Environment Influence Teaching Styles and a Teacher’s Well Being ©2012-2013 Maria Freda
• An empirical study of the role design and aesthetic sensibilities play in teachers’ partnerships with the space they in, the objects they teach with and the children they teach to. Program Creator - The Classeum.
• A workshop series that encourages teachers (PreK thru 4) to welcome the classroom as a collaborating partner featuring topics such as: The Biophilia Effect, The Power of Space, Placemaking, Design Matters and Building.

New Haven, CT

• Proven ability to meet the expectations and needs of a classroom settings
• Teaching style influenced by “constructivist” and Reggio Emilia pedagogies
• Promotes interdisciplinary infusion of lesson topics
• Engages children in block play as a problem solving method
• Encourages cause and effect deduction activities
• Leads animated storytelling sessions with creative response activities

New York City

• Taught Salvadori in school, science and math L.E.A.D (Learning through Engineering, Architecture and Design) program for Grades 2 thru 4.
• Encouraged students to observe their neighborhoods and living environments to create connections to their learning.
• Led B.R.I.D.G.E.S. (Build, Research, Invent, Design Grow and Explore through Science) an After School Program highlighting technology and design found in the built environment for children ages 7 thru 12.
• By deconstructing local and global bridges and their components to simple shapes and design, my lessons provided students with a more approachable style of learning something that seemingly at first seems difficult to.
• Using the basic tools of design, students in both programs learned the steps of model construction; drafting, scale and proportion, construction and finished 3-D presentations. The result led to inquisitive learners.
• Designed and produced activities and work sheets.

New York, NY

The Cold Spring School. New Haven, CT, The Edgewood School. New Haven, CT.The Salvadori Center Placements: The Anderson School, NY, NYThe Scandinavia House - The Nordic Center in America, NY, NYThe Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, The Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY

New Haven, CT

INTERIOR STYLIST.Successful mid-century modern furnishings shop offering award winning design / styling services. An entrepreneurial venture in a resurging downtown urban neighborhood. Created retail concept from the ground up. Developed creative solutions for residential and commercial spaces. Served as an interior stylist of model apartments in New Haven.

New York, NY

Conceptualized exhibit themes and installations. Managed inter-departmental creative serviceneeds. Recommended/designed museum’s first women aviators exhibit Nobody Owns the Sky. Senior member planning team for high profile events. Broadened museum public awareness by creating successful public programming, such as the SEAFEST waterfront festival. Authored.

Master Of Science - Ms, Museum Education

Master Of Science - Ms, Museum Leadership

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Communication Design

Degree awarded with honors.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Fine And Studio Arts