Committees

Curious about how to get involved? Check out our variety of PTA Committees below!

Ready to get started? Fill out our Volunteer Survey!

  • Back-To-School-Bash

    This team organizes and coordinates a super fun one-night event in September for all Coe families. Think games, food trucks, and booths promoting activities and volunteer opportunities at the school.

    2024-25 Chair: Allison Schneider

  • Birthday Celebrations

    This team handles the monthly birthday treats and birthday hats for our students.

    2024-25 Chairs: Julie Nguyen, Alisa Hill and Lauren Moses

  • Book Fair

    The PTA runs a weeklong book sales event in the Spring as well as a fun celebration of reading for the students. All proceeds go to support our beloved library!

    2024-25 Chairs: Monica Andrus and Amy Turner

  • Building Leadership Team

    As a school, we believe that we make better decisions in school governance if we work on issues together. The BLT meets monthly to discuss a variety of topics including upcoming events, challenges as they present themselves, budgeting issues, and organizational issues.

    2024-25 Chairs: Lissa Capps and Derek Giles

  • Coe Auction

    This fundraising event in March typically raises 45% of PTA’s annual donation goal and is vital to supporting our Coe community efforts. This two part, online and in person auction requires commitment/support of varying degrees throughout the year.

    2024-25 Chairs: Giselle Warner, Monica Andrus, Lissa Capps

  • Coe Cares

    Coe Cares supports Coe families in times of financial or emotional hardship, leads community food and supply drives, organizes service and connection opportunities in the broader Seattle community and ensures that all Coe families can participate equally in school activities. If you think you or your family would benefit from any of these, please email Coe Counselor, Sarah Waymouth. If you are interested in volunteering to help the Coe Cares team we have short term volunteer opportunities throughout the year. Please email Lauren Moore at coecares@coepta.org for more information.

    2024-2025 Chairs: Abby Slonecker and Lauren Moore

  • Coe Spirit Wear

    Coe Spirit Wear Team is responsible for selecting new school year logos and spirit wear options, in coordination with the Graphic Designer, determining inventory, setting up an online store, and working with school leadership and PTA leads to promote sale and manage orders/distribution.

    2024-25 Chair: Catherine Martin

  • Coe-mmunity Night

    Celebrating the diversity of backgrounds and customs represented at Coe, this event showcases vibrant displays, delicious food offerings, and performances, taking students and families on a global expedition just by walking through the school. Volunteers are always needed to transform the atrium and hallways into a “bazaar” showcasing the rich cultures that make up Coe. Families are invited to participate and share their culture by setting up a table display, preparing delectable dishes representative of their heritage, and more.

    2024-25: Chair: Elsa Jones

  • Diversity, Racial Equity, and Inclusion

    The Coe PTA is committed to creating a school community that is equitable, proactively practices and promotes anti-racism, and embraces the value of diversity. Coe Elementary school staff and leadership are committed to and have been acting on this shared goal. The community is constantly changing, however, and we are all part of a life-long journey to be better and do better for our kids. The Diversity, Racial Equity, and Inclusion (DREI) Committee was established to facilitate partnership between the PTA and Coe staff around this commitment, to develop clear, shared goals, to inform priorities, and to develop and support implementation of strategies that help achieve those goals.

    2024-25 Chairs: Heather Puri and Lynn Xiaoling Mo equity.coepta@gmail.com

  • The Fall Fundraiser

    The first fundraising event of the year, this team organizes our October campaign communications, raffles and limited in person events.

    2024-25 Chair: Becky Woodruff fundraising@coepta.org

  • Family Game Night

    A fun family affair with games for all ages from Blue Highway Games! Proceeds from game sales, popcorn, bake sale and food go toward Islandwood!

    2024-25 Chair: Rachel Salit

  • Gardening & Landscaping

    SPS has a limited grounds crew so maintaining our beautiful school gardens is a community effort. This position helps lead and coordinate Coe Gardening Days.

    2024-25 Chair: Jocelyn Shaw

  • Jog-A-Thon

    This team coordinates this student-led fundraising effort each Spring. Students walk or jog with their class while families cheer them on, followed by cool treats.

    2024-25 Chairs: Michelle Maxwell and Alisa Hill

  • Kinder Outreach

    This position welcomes incoming Kindergarten families and helps them transition to Coe by organizing introductory parents/kids/ teacher play dates and a welcome morning event on the first day of school.

    2024-25 Chair: Kristin Weiss

  • Monster Mash

    One of our largest volunteer efforts of the year, our large Monster Mash committee organizes a night of dress-up fun for all Coe families with music, dancing, costumes, games and food.

    2024-25 Chair: Jess Bernstein

  • Room Parent Coordinator

    This role involves collaborating with office staff and teachers early on in the school year to identify one (or two) parents from each classroom interested in being a liaison for distributing relevant information from the PTA to class parents as well as coordinating teacher appreciation gifts on behalf of the class.

    2024-25 Chair: Sally Elley

  • Safety Patrol

    This position coordinated with Ms. Volk to help organize the fourth and fifth graders. This a great opportunity for students who have demonstrated a track record of reliable and responsible behavior, and are able to rotate before-and-after-school patrol duties into their schedule.

    2024-25 Chair: Drew Johnston

  • School Directory

    This role organizes all Coe families into a school directory.

    2024-25 Chair: Brook Taylor and Heather Sadler

  • Sporting Events Coordinator

    Works with local sports teams and universities to coordinate fun outings for Coe students and families.

    2024-25 Chair: Bethany Brodsky

  • Staff Recognition Team

    This team coordinates with room parents for the weekly stocking of the staff room with snacks, food, and coffee, in addition to supporting any staff events throughout the year.

    2024-25 Chair: Sarah Miller

  • Webmaster

    The PTA website serves a vital role in sharing relevant school info and activities with Coe families, as well as providing additional resources to current and prospective parents. Our social media channels (Facebook and Instagram) also serve in sharing timely information and connecting our community. The webmaster is in charge of keeping the website and social channels up to date.

    2024-25 Chair: Katrina Bethards webmaster@coepta.org

Volunteer

Our PTA runs on volunteers, and there are plenty of ways to be involved via a variety of committees and events. We welcome any time commitment that is possible to you and your family. The best way to stay up to date with monthly volunteer opportunities, no matter how big or small, is to join as a PTA member, as we will send out emails with regular volunteer asks to our membership. In addition, we also run regular communications to the entire school in the weekly Wednesday Coe Bulletin - don’t forget to scroll down to catch the PTA section! Please email president@coepta.org with any questions.

Looking to volunteer in your child’s classroom? The school, not the PTA, runs this effort –please reach out to ldloewe@seattleschools.org for information about the volunteer approval process.