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*** Special Announcement ***

July 20, 2012. NEXT Steps has just been awarded a State Farm Good Neighbor Student Achievement Grant for Grady High School’s Business & Entrepreneur Academy in support of Global Youth Service Day 2013 at Atwood Community Gardens.

“Hi Dana,
This is awesome. I fully support students in our academy being exposed to various methods of small business development education and entrepreneurial skills. I especially like the conjunction with the Global Youth Day initiative as this will provide our kids an opportunity to understand their role in a global marketplace while possibly gaining graduation requirements.

Thanks for being a valuable resource!”
Lamar J. Young
Guidance Counselor
Henry W. Grady High School

NEXT Steps:
A Communities In School Partner

NEXT Steps integrates the Small Business Development Career Pathway for Georgia Public Schools (Business Essentials. Business Law, and Entrepreneurial Ventures). Our Youth Entrepreneur Program training activities meet the academic standards for the Entrepreneurial Venture (EV) curriculum.
* We meet once a week at your location from 45 minutes to 1.5 hours (fees apply)
* Training courses can range from 1 to 14 weeks

Course Description
The EV course concentrates on the management skills necessary for successful business operation. Students will study management strategies for developing and implementing business plans; structuring the organization; financing the organization; and managing information, operations, marketing and human resources. An integral component of the Entrepreneurial Ventures course is a school-based or community-based entrepreneurial venture that will engage students in the creation and management of a business and the challenges of being a small business owner. Mastery of these standards through project-based learning and leadership development activities of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) and DECA will help prepare students with a competitive edge for the global marketplace. The academic standards for the Entrepreneurial Ventures course are:

Communications
• The student participates in student-to-teacher, student-to-student, and group verbal interactions.
• The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats.

Economics
• Students will make connections among mathematical ideas and to other disciplines and represent mathematics in multiple ways.

Functions of Management (Organizational Structures, Financial Management)
• The student will explain how markets, prices and competition influence economic behavior.
• The student will explain why individuals, businesses and governments trade goods and services.
• Students will communicate mathematically and use research and technology to support their writing.
• Students will solve problems (using appropriate technology), make connections among mathematical ideas and to other disciplines and represent mathematics in multiple ways.

Information Management (Human Resources Management, Operations Management)
The student will explain how productivity, economic growth and future standards of living are influenced by investment in factories, machinery, new technology and the health, education and training of people.

Marketing Management
• The student will describe the roles of government in a market economy.
• Students will make connections among mathematical ideas and to other disciplines.
• The student will give examples of how rational decision making entails comparing the marginal benefits and the marginal costs of an action.
• The student will explain how markets, prices and competition influence economic behavior.

Business Plan Development and Implementation
• The student will explain how the Law of Demand, the Law of Supply, prices and profits work to determine production and distribution in a market economy.
• The student acquires new vocabulary in each content area and uses it correctly.
• The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals closure.
• The student formulates reasoned judgments about written and oral communication in various media genres. The student delivers focused, coherent, and polished presentations that convey a clear and distinct perspective, demonstrate solid reasoning, and combine traditional rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description.

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