Jessica Flynn, founder of The YOU Power Project, was named a Top 3 finalist in the 2025 Capital Elle Business Impact Award. The award recognizes women entrepreneurs creating meaningful social impact through innovative businesses and community leadership.

Jessica Flynn Wins Education Award at the Community Builders Awards

Jessica Flynn’s YOU Power Project is helping students build real-world life skills through entrepreneurship programs that develop leadership, confidence, and practical experience.

Listen to co-founder Jessica Flynn on CBC as she shares the vision behind The Academy of South Georgian Bay — a “dream school” in Collingwood that brings together students, families, mentors, and community leaders. Discover how this unique model is empowering young people to become changemakers through true community collaboration.

Jessica Flynn was featured in the Flip the Script “Beyond the Pitch” initiative, a program supporting women entrepreneurs with tools to overcome funding barriers and strengthen investor communication.

Harvard’s Project Zero is a wealth of resources and toolkits exploring the use of thinking routines in the classroom

Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk titled "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" is one of the most popular and influential TED talks of all time. In this talk, Robinson addresses the issue of how traditional education systems often stifle the natural creativity and imagination of children.

This video is WELL worth your time and will help articulate many of the issues with the existing school system and equally excite you for the possibilities of being a part of school that champions curiosity.

Leaning on the research and design methodologies being pioneered at Stanford University, the K12 Lab promotes radical approaches to centering modern students in how to build learning experiences that are relevant to the world we live in, and want to shape.

At GB Prep we have the intentional ability and time to develop relationships with each student that allows for the proper use of conversations and observations to demonstrate learning. WE know that students are so much more than a test score, but crowded classrooms and outdated practices rely too heavily on these methods.

Most Likely To Succeed is a thought-provoking documentary feature film that reveals the growing shortcomings of conventional education methods in today’s innovative world. The film explores compelling new approaches that aim to revolutionize education as we know it, inspiring school communities to reimagine what students and teachers are capable of doing. To date, MLTS has screened for thousands of audiences around the world, igniting conversations and empowering change along the way.

From Director Greg Whiteley (Last Chance U, Mitt,) and Executive Producer Ted Dintersmith (author, Most Likely to Succeed).

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Encouraging needs to be met locally.