NCESE 2025 Conference

Welcome to the 2025 Northern Centre for Excellence in School Engagement (NCESE)’s third annual conference: It Starts with Us: Creating Inclusive and Engaging Learning Spaces. 

This year's theme emphasises that any lasting solutions for school disengagement have to begin with a concerted, whole school effort to create inclusive and engaging learning spaces, which needs to be driven by school leaders and educators.

Find out more about the NCESE and previous conferences. Once again, we have brought together renowned international academics and local experts, to help build the evidence base for ‘what works’. All ticket holders we will be attending the following keynotes:

• Rethinking Challenging Behaviour: Collaborative Problem Solving

  A/Professor Stuart Ablon from Harvard Medical School

• Everything a Teacher Needs to Know About Executive Functions

  Professor Phil Zelazo, from the University of Minnesota

• We Do This Work Together: How reflection can support workforce wellbeing

  Silvana Izzo

Attendees need to select one workshop stream to attend for the day. Each stream includes three interactive workshops. Please refer to the below information for further details to assist with your selection. 

Stream 1: Supporting Vulnerable Students

Stream 2: Curriculum and Pedagogy

Stream 3: Whole-School SEL and Executive Function Skills

Stream 4: Relationships and Family Engagement

Click here to find out more about our workshop streams and the conference in our provisional brochure.