Amirah Shante Beeks, a 2012 graduate from Hampton University with a bachelor’s degree and who earned her master’s in Education from Duquesne University in 2013, recently graduated with her doctoral degree in School Psychology.
A school psychologist at a middle school in the Baltimore County Public Schools, in Baltimore, Md., Beeks said, “I’ve always loved working with children and always wanted to be able to help those students who were struggling in school.”
Thinking back to her high school days, she said, “When I was in high school teachers would talk negatively about kids and tell (them) they weren’t going to be anything or make anything of themselves. When I was in school, I was always the honor student, but that would always bother me. What teacher would say to other student?”
She said she always wanted to give encouragement and say, “You can do it.”
As an educator, Beeks said she wants to address the issue of over representation of African American students in special education.
“I want to make sure when (teachers) are getting their assessments and stuff done for the IEP class, instead of it being double fidelity, they are making sure that students are getting services they need and are being represented in a better way or light.”
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