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...

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...

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...