The 2025 National Conference will take place at the Marriott Cornhusker Hotel in Lincoln, Nebraska (333 S 13th St, Lincoln, NE 68508). Holy Mass will be celebrated at nearby St. Mary Catholic Church (1420 K St. Lincoln, NE), and at the University of Nebraksa-Lincoln Newman Center – St. Thomas Aquinas Church (320 North 16th Street Lincoln, NE 68508).

Nearby airports include:

• Lincoln Airport (Airport code: LNK) – located 10 minutes from the Marriott Cornhusker Hotel. The hotel offers a complimentary shuttle to and from the airport. Note that the Lincoln airport is served only by United Airlines and has limited flight availability.
• Omaha Eppley Airfield (Airport code: OMA) – located 60 minutes from the Marriott Cornhusker Hotel. The Lincoln Convention and Visitors Bureau recommends using either OmaLink or Metro Sedan and Limousine for ground transportation between Omaha and Lincoln. Rental cars and rideshare options such as Uber and Lyft are also available.

Please view a Google Map of the Marriott Cornhusker Hotel and the surrounding area.

• View the conference agenda on the Conference app. 
• View the live version of the printed program. Changes made to our printed program after it went to print are listed on our Program Errata.

For the convenience of our conference guests, we are happy to announce that we are offering the use of a conference app, provided by Whova. Face-to-face interactions – incarnational interactions – are central to ICLE’s very mission, so we hope that the app will enable you to participate and interact actively, building important and lasting connections. We envision the conference app as an additional avenue for our guests to view the conference program (with real-time updates), add sessions to your personal calendar, build connections with other conference participants in advance and during our event, network with our premier partners in the vendor hall, and more!

Please note that use of the conference app is completely optional; ICLE will always ensure that conference participants without the app have access to everything they need to make the most of their conference experience.

After the conference, we will evaluate the effectiveness of the app and its overall impact on the conference experience. We hope it helps to further our incarnational mission, facilitating real-life, in-person interactions to achieve ICLE’s mission: to inspire and equip Catholic educators to renew today’s Catholic schools by drawing on the Church’s tradition of education, which frees teachers and students for the joyful pursuit of faith, wisdom, and virtue.

To view the full Conference agenda, RSVP for breakout sessions, and sign up for a Thursday afternoon seminar, sign into ICLE’s Whova app online using your Conference-registration email address or

Download the App Here

Please explore the other helpful features in the app. Start planning with the full conference agenda and add sessions to your calendar. Get to know our amazing speakers. See your fellow attendees (and find out if you know someone!). Begin a conversation in an existing thread – or start a new one. Get a head start interacting with our exhibitors.

Holy Mass will be celebrated each day of the conference. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, Mass will be at St. Mary Catholic Church. Thursday’s Mass will be at the Newman Center – St. Thomas Aquinas Church. Adoration and confession will also be available.

Please join us for Morning Prayer each morning of the conference

Please note that your conference registration does not include overnight lodging. The conference room block at the Marriott Cornhusker Hotel is now full.

You may wish to book a room at one of two overflow hotels or a local retreat center:

• Embassy Suites by Hilton (2 min. drive; 12 min. walk) for $119 per night (plus tax) using this link. This rate includes breakfast and complimentary shuttle service to the Marriott Cornhusker (available on a first come, first served basis).
• Courtyard Lincoln Downtown / Haymarket (4 min. drive; 18 min. walk) for $119 per night (plus tax) using this link. This rate includes breakfast and complimentary shuttle service to the Marriott Cornhusker Hotel (available on a first come, first served basis).
• Our Lady of Good Counsel Retreat House (17 min. drive) for $90 per night using this link. This rate includes an option to carpool to and from the conference each day (no charge, but donations accepted), and low cost airport transportation.

Parking garages nearby include:

• Cornhusker Square Garage (6′ 8″ clearance), attached to the Marriott Cornhusker Hotel
• Carriage Park Garage (6′ 11, 7′ 2″ clearance), connected via a skywalk to the Marriott Cornhusker Hotel

A complimentary parking pass is provided with each room reservation within the ICLE room block. Valet parking is available for $24 per day.

For those not staying at the hotel, the rates are:

• First hour free
• $1.50/hour
• Daily maximum of $13.50

Metered street parking is available around the hotel. See this page for more information from the City of Lincoln.

Commuters may wish to consider carpooling to reduce the per person parking cost.

Do you have an announcement, such as an informal meet-up or a job posting, that you’d like to make at this year’s National Conference? Share your announcement with us via this form, and we’ll feature it on our video boards located throughout the event venue.

We are pleased to welcome Eighth Day Books from Wichita, Kansas, as our conference bookstore. Eighth Day Books carries classics in religion, philosophy, history, literature, the arts & children’s literature, and will bring a wide variety of books and other items for your enjoyment and shopping convenience. Please feel free to contact them at [email protected] if there is a particular resource you hope will be included among their offerings at the conference. Connect with Eighth Day Books in the Lower Level Meeting Space.

Every year on the final evening of the conference, participants are given free time to relax and explore the local area. Please visit this page for help planning your free evening on Thursday, July 17

The Marriott Cornhusker Hotel is ADA accessible and elevators are available when needed for access to upper floors. Holy Mass on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday and some seminar sessions will take place at St. Mary Catholic Church, located a five-minute walk away from the hotel. Holy Mass and some seminar sessions on Thursday will take place at the Newman Center – St. Thomas Aquinas Church, located a 14-minute walk away from the hotel.

The terrain in this area of Lincoln is very flat.

Please contact Program Manager Megan Fassero with any questions or concerns at [email protected].

Assisted Listening Devices are available for use during the plenary sessions in the Grand Ballroom. Please reach out to Program Manager Megan Fassero in advance of the conference to reserve one.

In this time of great educational renewal, we are edified and blessed to know and partner with many organizations and apostolates who are each playing a unique role in expanding the return to truth, goodness, and beauty.

Our Conference vendors represent a variety of apostolates working together to serve the vast landscape of school and communities seeking to capture the fullness of the Church’s rich offerings.

We are thankful for their presence here at our National Conference, and we encourage you to get to know them by visiting their tables. Please take advantage of specific vendor time on the schedule, as well as other opportunities to interact with our vendors throughout the conference.

See the full list of our partners below. (Please note that St. Ann partners will not have a table in the vendor hall.)

If you would like us to be aware of your dietary needs and restrictions, please take a moment to complete our brief survey by June 1. This will assist us greatly with planning food and beverage service for the National Conference.

Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) are granted for participation in ICLE workshops, programs, and events. You may request a certificate of attendance for full, in-person attendance at a previous event HERE.

Heads of school can request certificates for teachers who have completed the livestream training HERE. The head of the school will need to confirm that the teacher participated in the full event and sign the certificate.

If you find yourself with time to explore Lincoln and its surrounding areas, these sites may be helpful to you:

• Visit Lincoln
• Visit Omaha
• Visit Southeast Nebraska

A nursing lounge is available for nursing mothers and babies. Please see the hotel front desk for information.

Free conference guest wi-fi is available in the conference event spaces. Hotel guests are encouraged to sign up for free to become Marriott Bonvoy members in advance of the conference in order to receive complimentary in-room internet access.

• Luggage storage will be available at the hotel front desk on the first and last days of the conference.
• The dress code for the conference is business casual.
• The average high temperature in Lincoln in July is 88°F and the average low is 66°F.
• An ATM is available in the hotel lobby, along with a small gift shop.

Every year, our seminars are a much-loved highlight of the National Conference! Every conference participant should select in advance a seminar to attend.  The seminars will take place 1-2:30 PM CT on Thursday afternoon.

The link to the seminar readings, as well as instructions from the session leader, are in their descriptions. Download and print your reading to prepare. The readings can also be viewed as PDFs on the Conference resource page.

To select your seminar:

1. Open the Whova app
2. Navigate to the agenda tab in the app’s footer
3. Navigate to Thursday, the 17th, and RSVP for one of the 1 PM seminar sessions

OR

1. Sign into the app online
2. Navigate to the agenda tab in the left-hand menu
3. Navigate to Thursday, the 17th, and RSVP for one of the 1 PM seminar sessions