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520 HMannOffice Hours:
Monday 6-7 PM and Wednesday 6:30-7:30 PM, by appointmentTC Affiliations:
Educational Background
Ed.D, Interdisciplinary Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University; Ed.M. Curriculum and Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University; B.M. Music Education, University of Michigan; B.A. English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
Scholarly Interests
Teacher and school policymaking; teacher research and activism; school change; music and arts education philosophy and policy; critical and postcolonial policy studies.
Selected Publications
Shieh, E. (2025). "Can we enter into a project and turn it against brutality and into liberation?": Inhabiting continuous improvement. Journal of Education Policy.
Shieh, E. (2023). How teachers see policy: School context, teacher inquiry, and policy visibility. Journal of Education Policy, 38(1), 166-188.
Shieh, E. (2023). Shieh, E. “I don’t want to be helpless”: Learning policymaking with teachers. Arts Education Policy Review, 124(1), 13-26.
Shieh, E. (2020). Making practice into policy: Bridging, buffering, and building in our schools. Music Educators Journal, 107(1), 31-36.
Shieh, E. (2016). After Eric Garner: Invoking the Black radical tradition in practice and in theory #BlackLivesMatter. Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 15(2), 126–45.
Shieh, E. (2016). Relationship, rescue, and culture: How El Sistema might work. In C. Benedict, P. Schmidt, G. Spruce, & P. Woodford (eds.), The Oxford handbook of social justice in music education (pp. 567-581). New York: Oxford University Press.
Shieh, E. (2012). Can music professional associations build capacity for curricular renewal? Arts Education Policy Review, 113(2), 55-67.
Allsup, R. E. & Shieh, E. (2012). Social justice and music education: The call for a public pedagogy. Music Educators Journal, 98(4), 47-51.
Shieh, E. (2010). On punishment and music education: Toward a practice for prisons and schools. International Journal of Community Music, 3(1), 19-32.
Biographical Information
Eric Shieh is a school designer and coach for New York City Outward Bound Schools, where he leads the development of progressive and equity-driven practices across a diverse portfolio of NYC schools and designs citywide professional learning for teachers and leaders.
Eric has worked over two decades as an educational innovator, including 18 years as a classroom teacher and leader across grades 4-12. He has previously served as a founding teacher and leader at the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School, “A School for a Sustainable City,” in Queens and an assessment policy strategist for the New York City Department of Education. Additionally, he has also founded and led writing and music programs in four prisons across Michigan and Missouri, and serves as a National Associate of the Prison Creative Arts Project.
His research and practice focus on the work of teachers and schools in education policy, school change, and policy intersections with equity and arts education.