Caroline Gosling

Caroline Gosling has worked in the field of education for four decades, beginning as a teacher in elementary, junior high and senior high. She has also held positions as a behaviour consultant, a principal of several schools and spent time seconded to both Alberta Children's Services and Alberta Education. At Alberta Education, Caroline’s work focused on supporting schools and school authorities to create, enhance and maintain welcoming, caring, respectful and safe learning environments. In 2020 Caroline received a Government of Alberta Inspiration Award for her work in this area. Caroline is passionate about restorative practices (RP) in schools and the impact this approach has on classroom and school culture. For the past 3 decades she has worked in and with classrooms, schools, school authorities and community organizations interested in implementing and sustaining RP across the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia as well as internationally. Caroline’s work involves supporting the co-creation of year-long and multi-year professional learning plans to ensure restorative cultures ‘stick’. Caroline holds a Masters degree in Educational Leadership from the University of Portland and a certificate in restorative practices from Simon Fraser University. Caroline is a trained Community/Restorative Conference facilitator as well as a certified trainer of trainers. She has facilitated and co-facilitated conferences in both schools and criminal matters. She is an instructor for the International Institute for Restorative Practices and sits on the Alberta Restorative Justice Association board of directors. When not doing the work she loves, Caroline can be found visiting family on Vancouver Island, her happy place.