The 2017 NCEA Institute for Catholic School Leaders is dedicated to serve current Catholic elementary and secondary school principals, presidents, pastors and school board leadership, as well as provide professional development in the preparation and development of the next generation of Catholic school leaders in those positions. This professional development opportunity was designed by Catholic school leaders for Catholic school leaders in order to address and meet their specific needs.

Selection Criteria
The selection process involves a review of every complete proposal submitted prior to the deadline, February 21, 2017. A complete submission includes contact information for each session speaker, session title and description, target audience(s), topic areas, and actionable learning objectives. Incomplete submissions will not be considered.

Session proposals are evaluated on the following criteria:

1. Proposal was submitted by the deadline, February 21, 2017.
2. Identification of two actionable learning objectives.
3. Session is designed to encourage high audience interaction/participation by incorporating multiple interactive strategies to engage participants such as facilitated delivery with high participation involvement, peer-to-peer components, large and small group discussions, participant brainstorming components and participant involvement in case-study analyses.
4. Content is focused, current, practical or innovative.
5. Clear and concise organization of ideas and clearly written learning objectives.
6. Timing - has the topic or the presenter been featured recently at a prior NCEA meeting.