Patricia Swinton teaches human anatomy and consumer science at Provine High School. Committed to providing her students with the best, she recently won a grant from the Eli Lilly Corporation to buy new science lab equipment. Ms. Swinton is sponsor of the Provine Meteorology Club, the only club of its kind in the district. Members collect data from the club's weather shelter, and their results are broadcast on a local TV station. The club is the only high school weather project in the nation to have its data printed in the American Weather Observer, a national meteorological newspaper. Ms. Swinton, a finalist for Mississippi's 1991 Teacher of the Year, has received the Jackson Public Schools' Gold Apple Award for high school teaching and the Silver Apple for outstanding professional standards and community involvement.
2012 Richland District One Teacher of the Year
2012 A.C. Flora H.S. Teacher of the Year
2011 Women of Excellence Award-Education
1991 Mississippi Educator of the Year-Milken Award
1991 Finalist for Mississippi Teacher of the Year
1990 Jackson Public Schools Teacher of the Year
1990 Prrovine High School Teacher of the Year
2012 Teacher of the Year Forums
2009 Reading in the Content Area
2012 National Scienct Teachers Association
2012 South Carolina Science Consortium
2012 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
2012 Human Anatomy & Physiology Society
2012 South Carolina Association of Black School Educaators
2005 IB Certification-Biology
2002 National Board Certified-Adolescence and Young Adult Science
1994 Ed.S. Secondary Science Education
1978 MA- Secondary Science Education
1967 Long Island University - C.W. Post Campus, B.S.
