The physical symbol of Maumee Valley’s commitment to the emerging needs of today – and generations to come – is a project that combines new structures with renovations of current facilities. In these proposed spaces, we can finally bring the energies of our entire campus together to connect with the world.

Coming Together to Connect with the World

Challenge: Provide the best environment for learning
Solution: Modernize facilities, under one roof
Goal: $11,300,000

• Create a new Upper School building with two stories containing flexible classroom spaces, library and media resource center, sound and video production studios, gathering spaces and lecture theatre.
• Renovate the historic Smead Building with versatile learning spaces for Pre-School students and a refurbished Millhon Auditorium.
• Connect the Smead Pre-School to the Dining Room, Millennium Theater and Lower School with an enclosed walkway.
• Provide places, resources and opportunities for pre-Kindergarteners through Seniors to learn, play, eat and share together.

Challenge: Reflect the global community through diversity
Solution: Increase scholarship aid
Goal: $750,000

• Endowment for additional Merit Scholarships
• Recruit mission appropriate candidates to promote greater ethnic, social and economic diversity
• Continue to enable the best and brightest students in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan to be able to afford an MVCDS education.

Challenge: Continue to attract and retain outstanding teachers
Solution: Offer exceptional enrichment opportunities for faculty
Goal: $750,000

• Endowment for faculty enrichment grants
• Include opportunities for teachers to travel and study abroad
• Ongoing training in teaching techniques and technology

Challenge: Provide educational opportunities that connect to the realities of an expanding global society.
Solution: Global Education Program
Goal: $1,350,000

• Endowment for Global Education international travel
• Global speaker series and book club
• Relationship and student exchange with schools abroad
• Chinese language program
• Proficiency in Spanish required
• Health and wellness program to proactively promote well-being
• Major research initiative to fuel comprehensive marketing/branding communications plan

Challenge: Sustain the efficiency and beauty of new and existing facilities
Solution: Establish an endowment for facility management
Goal: $850,000 

• Support cost of increased daily maintenance expense
• Fund repair and replacement needs of the building over the decades of its use

Challenge: Be better stewards of the environment and take advantage of our natural setting
Solution: Incorporate “green building” and smart planning

• Use environmentally-protective processes and sustainable materials to create LEED^®-certified facilities (following guidelines of the U.S. Green Building Council)
• Orient the new Upper School building to open onto a sweep of lawn overlooking the ravine
• Take advantage of our beautiful natural setting and the learning opportunities it provides