About Us

The Georgia Business Education Association (GBEA) is an affiliate of the Georgia Association for Career & Technical Education (GACTE), the national Association for Career & Technical Education (ACTE), the National Business Education Association (NBEA) and the Southern Business Education Association (SBEA). 

Working with these organizations, we strive to provide members the opportunity to become part of a collective voice that can influence issues and policies that impact career and business education. As members, teachers can network with each other to gain useful ideas and techniques to utilize in their classroom as well as participate in professional development at the local, state, and national levels.

Effective July 2012, GBEA membership dues must be paid through the ACTE membership application.  We encourage you to become a unified member by joining all of your professional organizations:  ACTE, NBEA, GACTE, and GBEA.
Please visit the following websites to join:

Our Vision
The Georgia Business Education Association is the foremost professional organization that
  • Represents education for / about business
  • Supports instruction for preparing individuals to function effectively within the global and competitive economy, and
  • Provides leadership for the direction of business education.

Our Mission
The Georgia Business Education Association serves individuals and groups involved in instruction, administration, research and dissemination of information for / about business at all instructional levels as they successfully accomplish the following purposes of business education:
  • Prepare individuals to be knowledgeable and ethical decision makers in their roles as consumers, workers, and citizens in our economic system
  • Prepare individuals to understand the role and structure of business in our global and competitive economy.
  • Prepare individuals to manage personal business affairs
  • Develop and refine communications, analytical, computational, and technological skills necessary for business and economic applications
  • Provide opportunities for leadership development including, but not limited to membership in GBEA, SBEA, NBEA, ACTE, and GACTE
  • Develop a personal commitment to lifelong learning
  • Prepare students for leadership roles through activities of the Future Business Leaders of America and Phi Beta Lambda and NBEA
  • Recognize outstanding business educators and students
  • Obtain legislative support for business education programs.