Parent Engagement in Catholic Community - NCEC Conference 2022
The Future is Listening
The National Catholic Education Commission hosts a conference every four or five years in a major Australian city. Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS) is proud to host the 2022 National Catholic Education Conference at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 4–7 September 2022, after the postponement of the conference in 2020.
The conference provides a forum where the many partners in Catholic education can come together to discuss issues of significance for the future of Catholic schooling.
Last held in Perth in 2016, the conference attracted more than 1300 Catholic education leaders. For 2022 in Melbourne, we hope to attract over 2000 participants from across Australia.
NCEC Conference 2022 - Call for Abstracts
2022 marks the emergence from a time of pandemic and our soul searching of the plenary. The theme of ‘The future is listening’ impels us to ask of ourselves, given what we have experienced, who are we as Catholic educators and Catholic school families and what do we have to say? What do our young people have to say? What is the ‘new thing’ that is already amongst us?
This call to action in Melbourne 2022 represents a pivotal point in time to explore, listen, perceive and articulate what springs forth for the future of educating young people.
Abstracts are now invited for submission under the four main themes of the Conference:
- Catholic Identity and Mission
- Leadership and Governance
- School Improvement
- Communication and Community Engagement.