NCESE Conference 2025: It Starts with Us: Creating Inclusive and Engaging Learning Spaces
NCESE Conference 2025: It Starts with Us: Creating Inclusive and Engaging Learning Spaces
On this page you will find the official conference program, links to presenter slides, some further reading and more!
The 2025 Conference video content will be released soon.
For further information about the conference or the NCESE, please contact NCESE Director Jaime de Loma-Osorio Ricon.
Professor Phil Zelazo: Everything a teacher needs to know about Executive Functions
Silvana Izzo: We Do This Work Together: How active reflection can support workplace wellbeing
Presentation video to be released soon
Professor Stuart Ablon: Rethinking Challenging Behavior: Collaborative Problem Solving
NOTE: This keynote is unavailable due to copyright
Workshops
Stream 1: Supporting Vulnerable Students
Sharon Duthie from the Australian Childhood Foundation: How early adversity translates into classroom behaviour and how to best respond
Additional reading:
Silvana Izzo: Self Care for educators
Bridget McHenry & Erin McLindon: Inclusive by design: Empathy, engagement & empowerment for neurodiverse learners
Stream 2: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Pamela Snow: What is the science of reading and how does it support older struggling students?
Pamela Snow: Essential frameworks to support explicit teaching: cognitive load theory, multi- tiered systems of support, and progress monitoring
Astrid Decloux & Olivia Gorman: Trauma informed teaching and learning
Presentation video to be released soon
Stream 3: Whole-school SEL and Executive Function Skills
Jaime De Loma-Osorio Ricon: Safe Adult: bringing together Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Executive Function (EF) skills in educators
Seral Fehmi & Jaime De Loma-Osorio Ricon: Embedding EFs and SEL in our classrooms
Ameera Hassanein & Seral Fehmi: Implementing a Trauma Responsive and inclusive Behaviour Response Framework in a mainstream school: Broadmeadows Primary School
Stream 4: Relationships and Family Engagement
Ellen Galinsky & Phil Zelazo: Adolescence… How can we be there for our teens?
NOTE: This presentation is unavailable due to copyright
Kristy Elliot: Restorative Practices in Action: Practical Tools for Building Connection and Developing Behaviour
Anne-Maree Grozdanoski, Julie Coco & Jaime De Loma-Osorio Ricon: A community working together: the parent engagement journey at Coolaroo South Primary School
Presentation video to be released soon