Calvin Milton Woodward (August 25, 1837 – January 12, 1914) was a United States educator and professor.

At the close of the Civil War, Woodward accepted a position as vice principal of Smith Academy in St. Louis, Missouri (part of Washington University).

Following an influential demonstration of the Della Vos, or Russian, method of tools instruction at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Woodward began making plans and gathering support for a similar initiative in the U.S.

This culminated in the opening, in 1879, of the St. Louis Manual Training School as a subordinate department of Washington University.

The school was a pioneer of its kind in the United States, and served as the model in organizing other similar schools, in consequence of which Woodward's expositions of the aims and value of manual training have had much influence in shaping the new education both inside and outside the United States.

Students learned how to use tools by shaping wood or metal, but the products they produced had no commercial value.

[3] He wrote a large number of papers on mathematical subjects and manual training, which he contributed to scientific journals and other periodicals.