Ms. Nijmeh is one of the 13 esteemed incoming staff and faculty this year and will be taking over for Ms. Richards as the new Director of Academic Support. In this role, she has numerous responsibilities including communication and coordination with a team of peer tutors who support other students throughout the week, meeting with students herself to help them stay organized and on track with their school work, and speaking with teachers and parents to find solutions when a student experiences challenges in the classroom. Her favorite aspect of Belmont Hill so far has been getting to know and work with students one-on-one. After graduating from San Francisco State University with an undergraduate degree in English with an emphasis in literature, she continued on to get her first master’s degree in special education from San Francisco State University. She is currently working on a second master’s degree in educational leadership and administration through Arizona State University.
Ms. Nijmeh will certainly bring invaluable experience and professionalism to Belmont Hill’s Academic Support teams as she has been in the academic world for her entire career, and even started a tutoring company while in high school and college. She also has spent seven of the last ten years of her career at all-boys high schools in California. “Being at Belmont Hill,” Ms. Nijmeh says, “feels very familiar to me.”
Outside of school, Ms. Nijmeh enjoys various forms of crafting from making her own jewelry to crocheting. She also loves to cook, and recently picked up gardening. We are all so excited to have Ms. Nijmeh at Belmont Hill and to see how much she can help make Belmont Hill a better place!
