Falcon Fresh Faces 2022

No stranger to teaching, Kylie Henson is beginning her ninth year as a business teacher. Starting off her teaching experience at FHS as a business educator in classroom 824, Henson is set in motion. She acquired her Master’s degree in Educational Leadership in West Virginia. Henson got her masters degree in “a small college in Wheeling, West Virginia” named Wheeling Jesuit University. Henson...

If there was a class to learn skills that could be used in nearly every business profession, FHS’s new teacher Keely Scott would teach it. Scott teaches keyboarding and computer information systems, which explores Microsoft Office applications. Scott said, “These courses are very valuable skills…because in the business world people use Microsoft Office; they don’t use Google.” She studied...

Joanna Kuta may be a fresh face, but she surely isn’t new to the teaching profession. Kuta went to college for psychology, but didn’t know what to do after. What she did know is that she needed a job, and that is how she ended up in the education field. What originally was a necessity, turned into fifteen years of teaching elementary, middle, and high school that went by in a blink of an eye. Kuta...

There’s a new face in the annex this year. Six schools and around twenty years in her teaching career, Megan Smiljanich (smell-yawn-itch as she put it) has joined our Falcon Family to teach math and history. Originally from Michigan, she attended the University of Michigan and Purdue University for her graduate. In highschool, she loved history, as it was “like a story,” and is happy to teach...

Former kayaking instructor Jennifer Spence teaches self contained English 9th, 12th, and a collaborative class for 10th graders. Spence taught at FHS 16 years ago and came back to teach some more Falcons. When asked if she could choose anything else to teach she said math. She despised math in her time at school. So, given the chance, her goal would be to help the students understand math and feel...

Brazilian jiu-jitsu fan Cathleen Beachboard is a new face in the English Department. She teaches a mix of grades nine and eleven. Her experience of having unsupportive teachers heavily impacted her, but her eighth grade teacher countered that trauma. This led her to teach eighth grade for 15 years. She then decided to come to high school, because her daughter is now an FHS student, and because she...

Sir Issac Newton said that an object in motion stays in motion, and Don Eckenrode is in motion as he moves into his first year teaching physics at FHS! Eckenrode previously lived in Springfield, Virginia, before he moved to Fauquier a year and a half ago with his family. When asked why he started teaching, he replied, “[My family and I] love the community and I wanted to give back.” Eckenrode...

If you like rock or indie music, like “Kings of Leon”, then Dana Beyer is a teacher you want to meet! Beyer is a new teacher at FHS and is delighted to help her students in every way she can. Beyer is a special education English teacher, who teaches grades 9, 10, and 12. Many think teachers are the ones in high school who were always at the top of their class, with straight A’s, but that is...