Ms. Patton joined the Columbia family in 2019. She graduated from East Carolina University with an undergraduate degree in Elementary Education and a concentration in Mathematics. She has taught first grade since 2018 and first grade at Columbia since 2019! Ms. Patton was born and raised in Fairfax and attended FCPS. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with friends and family, shopping, exercising, reading, baking, doing arts and crafts and hanging out with her dog, Leo!