Seattle Schools Hires a New Communications Chief
Jacque (pronounced “Jackie”) Coe will be recommended for school board approval on April 1, as the Chief Communications Officer for Seattle Public Schools (SPS). She currently is the Senior Director of Strategic Communications for the Washington Dairy Products Commission and is nationally accredited in public relations (APR) by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). Prior to joining the commission, Jacque served as the Director of Communications and Community Relations for the Bellevue School District.
While working for the Bellevue School District, Jacque’s responsibilities included internal and external communications as well as community engagement initiatives including strategic initiatives, policy, public affairs, community engagement, and outreach to diverse audiences. During her tenure with the district, she re-organized Communications staff for strategic focus and enhanced customer service, redesigned the web site for easier navigation, created a district advisory committee process for greater public engagement and led team efforts in strategic planning initiatives and policy efforts.
“I am very excited about Jacque joining our cabinet and leadership team,” said Superintendent Larry Nyland. “She brings more than 20 years of experience in strategic communications, including serving on three executive teams related to K-12 education; the Bellevue School District, Alliance for Education and Washington’s Lottery, which benefits education.”
Jacque will transition into the role on Monday, April 6.
While working for the Bellevue School District, Jacque’s responsibilities included internal and external communications as well as community engagement initiatives including strategic initiatives, policy, public affairs, community engagement, and outreach to diverse audiences. During her tenure with the district, she re-organized Communications staff for strategic focus and enhanced customer service, redesigned the web site for easier navigation, created a district advisory committee process for greater public engagement and led team efforts in strategic planning initiatives and policy efforts.
“I am very excited about Jacque joining our cabinet and leadership team,” said Superintendent Larry Nyland. “She brings more than 20 years of experience in strategic communications, including serving on three executive teams related to K-12 education; the Bellevue School District, Alliance for Education and Washington’s Lottery, which benefits education.”
Jacque will transition into the role on Monday, April 6.
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No thank you.
Hope the woman can overcome the resume flaw and further hope the woman is not a backdoor for the Alliance into the district executive team. It's how the Alliance has worked in the past so this is not paranoia.
DistrictWatcher
-SPS Tired
pony baloney
Upset teacher
Westside
If she is allowed to drive any of these efforts successfully in SPS, kids, families, and buildings win.
Fact is, even with transparency and facts, communications can still go horribly wrong. SPS has neither facts nor transparency and we've seen lack of communication and poor communication. My hope is that she'll use her smarts as she's done in the past, to ensure that communication is backed up by substance.
-SPS Tired
Well, if the new hire can change that type of thinking about what is "engagement" and replace it with something actual - then I'm all for it.
Being an SPS parent is a HUGE step, by the way, b/c it seems like too many people in JSCEE are not connected to facts on the ground.
Signed: hoping
Sped Parent
-notagoodmove
The arbitrary plans being imposed on the students, parents, teachers, administration and surrounding community for the future of Loyal Heights Elementary School are awful. They effectively turn what has been a model community school that functions very well---where almost every family knows each other and there is a strong spirit of cooperation---into an Urban Education Compound that SQUEEZES as many children as possible into an exceedingly small space, and hides a pro-privatization agenda within its construction blueprints.
Here's where Jacque Coe comes in: She was the ONE and ONLY parent or neighborhood resident testyfying at last night's hearing in favor of these horrendous plans for LHES. While she glowingly and effusively praised thse plans, she never bothered to disclose that she was also the Chief Communications Officer for SPS!
I was happy that another speaker, some time later, pointed out this fact. But I was outraged that she didn't exercise her ethical obligation to point out that very relevant fact.
That, and her history with the truly opprobrious "Alliance for Education," has brought me to the conclusion that she can't be trusted and is pushing an agenda that is pro-privatization, anti-teacher and anti-parent.
Concerned Public School Parent---who wasn't born yesterday after falling off of the turnip truck...