Eric Woodward (MA Teaching, BA Arts, Dip Counselling) has been in education in Australia for over ten years. He is the founder of Global Village School, an educational charity that created an innovative high school model and ran programs to pilot and evaluate a project-based educational model. This model is now being implemented in a school in Melbourne. Eric has held roles as Leading Teacher: Leader of Co-curricular programs, Year-Level Co-ordinator, Student Wellbeing Co-ordinator, and French and Humanities classroom teacher and has worked in a number of public and private school settings from primary to high school. He has extensive training in the International Baccalaureate model, Harvard Adaptive Leadership, trauma-informed education and restorative practices.