Dorothy Vaandering

Dorothy Vaandering, PhD, professor at the Faculty of Education, Memorial University, Newfoundland, and Labrador was a Primary-Elementary educator for 20 years. She draws on life experience, her teaching experience and her research experience to now explore the implementation and sustainability of restorative justice in education, designing and implementing innovative, transformative professional learning approaches. Understanding reconciliation as a settler-Canadian has become a priority in her work. She is the author and co-author of a variety of academic and professional publications including The Little Book of Restorative Justice in Education. She is the Director of Relationships First: Restorative Justice Consortium in NL.