Michael Flynn

Year: 2010-2011 – Province: British Columbia

Certificate of Achievement Recipient

Brentwood College School
2735 Mount Baker Road
Mill Bay BC V0R 2P1

Principal: Andrea Pennells
School Tel.: 250-743-5521
School Fax: 250-743-2911
School Email: amp@brentwood.bc.ca
School Website: www.brentwood.bc.ca

Subjects and grades taught Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Economics for grades 10 to 12

Teaching Approach

“Skate to where the puck will be” reads a plaque on Michael Flynn’s office wall … and so equipped with hockey metaphors, he teaches his students to adapt in a fast-moving world. In Mr. Flynn’s classes, students learn to continue the pass, demonstrate teamwork and eventually score the point. A believer that students learn more by doing than just by listening, Mr. Flynn’s classes can even resemble an episode of The Apprentice as students work, implement – and at times even capitalize – on real business ventures.

Outstanding Achievements

• From its roots as a small after-school recreational activity, Mr. Flynn was instrumental in the establishment of a comprehensive business department at Brentwood College that includes over ten different full time classes, each of which is in high demand.
• Mr. Flynn creatively built a number of projects for two of his classes around the annual rowing regatta which attracts thousands of spectators, athletes and coaches. Marketing students sell advertising for the regatta program and the entrepreneurship class creates business ventures that come to fruition as a booth that generates real income, has real expenses and requires real capital investment.
• Mr. Flynn got his grade nine students involved in the Toscan Foundation Youth and Philanthropy Project. Students research a local charity and put together a multi-media presentation about their organization. They compete for a $5000 grant that ends up being awarded to the charity of their choice.

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