Falls Church City Public Schools

School Board meetings, presentations, and performances from Falls Church City Public Schools.

Falls Church City Public Schools is a education podcast hosted by Falls Church City Public Schools, with 164 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Falls Church City Public Schools

  School Board Regular Meeting: September 8, 2026

  Sep 10, 202656 min

  Two weeks into the 2026-27 school year, Superintendent Dr. Terry Dade brings the Falls Church City School Board his Opening of Schools report. You'll hear how convocation kicked off the year and what each of the five FCCPS schools is celebrating and working toward. Dr. Dade also describes how staff began districtwide AI training in August. He shares a preliminary count of 32 more students than last year, and he expects that will make FCCPS one of the few districts in the region to grow this fall. About five minutes in, the Board plays the "mascot off-season" video made for convocation. It's a visual piece, so you may want to watch it on the FCCPS YouTube channel. The Board then approves the first reading of Policy ILBC, College Board School Day Program, which a new state law requires. FCCPS has already set up an optional SAT for seniors at no cost and the PSAT for sophomores and juniors this October. Board members ask whether juniors could someday choose the SAT instead. Student representative Sanaa Washiko explains why an October test date matters for seniors facing early college deadlines. The Board also adopts Policy IEB, National Motto, which Virginia law requires. The meeting wraps with Board member comments and a preview of a busy next meeting: a draft strategic plan timeline and the academic performance report. Note: This audio has been edited to remove the silence while the Board met in closed session.

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  Meet the Team: Mount Daniel Principal Coffee — September 2, 2026

  Sep 8, 202654 min

  This episode replaces an earlier version that was missing several minutes of the recording. This one is complete. Principal Tim Kasik opens the school year by introducing the Mount Daniel leadership team and explaining how the building runs. Recorded on the eighth day of school, this is the only in-person Principal Coffee of the year. Kasik, Assistant Principal Lindsay Covey, Special Education Administrator Kate Mahr, PYP Coordinator Shonta Robertson, and Administrative Assistant Nora Pishner each introduce themselves, then walk through the classroom teams, the student services and Encore specialists, and the front office and health room staff. The second half turns practical. Covey lays out the K-2 daily schedule, including two Encore blocks, two recesses, roughly 100 minutes of literacy, and the intervention and enrichment period the school calls Danny Time. Robertson explains what inquiry-based learning looks like for five-, six-, and seven-year-olds under the IB Primary Years Programme. Kasik decodes the FCCPS calendar, including the difference between early release Wednesdays and long Wednesdays, and explains what visiting the building looks like on a narrow residential street shared with neighbors. Parents ask about literacy and math screening windows, whether kindergarteners bring home homework, screen time in aftercare, biking up the hill to school, and who to email first with a question. Kasik also previews the year ahead for Principal Coffees. Most topics will now be pre-recorded and released here and on YouTube, covering the Primary Years Programme, special education, and enrichment. Portions of this session reference the FCCPS calendar and staff slides shown in the room. The video version on the FCCPS YouTube channel includes those visuals. Spanish and Russian versions are available on both the YouTube channel and this podcast feed. Mount Daniel families can find weekly updates in Danny's Corner, which arrives on Thursdays at 7:45 p.m. Division news arrives daily in Morning Announcements at 6:45 a.m.

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  Powered by People, Episode 1: Najla Muhammad

  Sep 8, 20265 minS1

  Snow machines, Muppets, and a ninja gym. Najla Muhammad has purchased all of them for Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School, and she is the first guest on Powered by People, a new FCCPS podcast hosted by Chief Operating Officer Alicia Prince. Najla has been the finance assistant at the middle school for 15 years. Colleagues call her Moneybags. She makes sure teachers have classroom supplies, whiteboards, and testing materials, and she handles the purchases that become the moments students remember, including the water slides for field day and the ninja gym the PE team brought to the school through a Falls Church Education Foundation grant. Powered by People celebrates the staff behind the work that keeps our schools moving, from the classroom to the bus lot, the cafeteria to the front office. New episodes go behind the scenes with the people who make Team FCCPS work.

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  Meet the Team: Mount Daniel Principal Coffee — September 2, 2026

  Sep 3, 202654 min

  Principal Tim Kasik opens the school year by introducing the Mount Daniel leadership team and explaining how the building runs. Recorded on the eighth day of school, this is the only in-person Principal Coffee of the year. Kasik, Assistant Principal Lindsay Covey, Special Education Administrator Kate Mahr, PYP Coordinator Shonta Robertson, and Administrative Assistant Nora Pishner each introduce themselves, then walk through the classroom teams, the student services and Encore specialists, and the front office and health room staff. The second half turns practical. Covey lays out the K-2 daily schedule, including two Encore blocks, two recesses, roughly 100 minutes of literacy, and the intervention and enrichment period the school calls Danny Time. Robertson explains what inquiry-based learning looks like for five-, six-, and seven-year-olds under the IB Primary Years Programme. Kasik decodes the FCCPS calendar, including the difference between early release Wednesdays and long Wednesdays, and explains what visiting the building looks like on a narrow residential street shared with neighbors. Parents ask about literacy and math screening windows, whether kindergarteners bring home homework, screen time in aftercare, biking up the hill to school, and who to email first with a question. Kasik also previews the year ahead for Principal Coffees. Most topics will now be pre-recorded and released here and on YouTube, covering the Primary Years Programme, special education, and enrichment. Portions of this session reference the FCCPS calendar and staff slides shown in the room. The video version on the FCCPS YouTube channel includes those visuals. Spanish and Russian versions are available on both the YouTube channel and this podcast feed. Mount Daniel families can find weekly updates in Danny's Corner, which arrives Thursdays at 7:45 p.m. Division news arrives daily in Morning Announcements at 6:45 a.m.

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  Falls Church School Board Work Session - August 25, 2026

  Aug 26, 202653 min

  Falls Church City School Board Work Session and Special Meeting, August 25, 2026 Audio from the School Board's meeting on the second day of the 2026-27 school year. Dr. Terry Dade lays out his four goals for the year: a strategic plan for 2027 through 2032, implementation of the division's AI policy, wellness and belonging work across all five schools, and the district's first comprehensive capital improvement plan. Chief Operating Officer Alicia Prince delivers the school opening and operations report, covering summer building projects, the new contracted maintenance model, first-day transportation and food service, and the updated facility rental fees that took effect August 1. Board questions on those fees run about 15 minutes and make up the longest discussion of the night. Board members Amie Murphy and Mary Kate Hughes open the board's year-long review of technology use in schools with a formal statement and a timeline running through spring 2027. The board also approves the superintendent's first contract addendum and welcomes student representative Sanna Washiko. Running time: 53 minutes.

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