Business and Entrepreneurship

Business and Entrepreneurship Academy

Henry W. Grady High School’s Business and Entrepreneurship (B&E) Academy offers three pathways: 1) Small Business Development 2) Sports & Entertainment Marketing and 3) Fashion Marketing. Each pathway affords students opportunities to explore their personal interests as well as bolsters students’ present and future academic success. B&E students will delve into many rigorous, relevant and rewarding facets of study. The B&E Academy utilizes an interdisciplinary model to ensure that students experience a natural coalescing of their core and elective courses along with “real-world” experiences. Our students will be afforded opportunities to work with mentors, interact with guest speakers and go on fieldtrips to see “businesses behind-the-scenes.” These enriching activities are designed to motivate them and better shape their understanding of the business and entrepreneurship world. In addition, B&E Academy scholars will have myriad opportunities to use their newfound knowledge to work with orchestrating and implementing school and community events.

This year the B&E instructional team consists of Terra Avery (Language Arts), Nikolai Curtis (Biology), James Dunton (Marketing), Millicent Green (World Geography), Jean Guilbert (Mathematics), Hazel Marshall (Business Essentials) and Marlon Pilson (Business). Students take their foreign language classes and electives (including music, art, JROTC and PE) with ninth graders from the other three academies as well as students in grades ten through twelve.

Lamar Young is the guidance counselor for students in the B&E Academy and can be reached at ljyoung@atlanta.k12.ga.us or 404-802-3019. Willie Vincent is the B&E Academy Leader and can be reached at wmvincent@atlanta.k12.ga.usor 404-802-3007.