Elga Meta Shearer (February 19, 1883 – October 11, 1967) was an American educator, school administrator, and textbook author.

Her older brother Conrad Shearer became a United States senator representing Wisconsin.

[7][8] In 1922, she moved again, to Long Beach, California, where she was supervisor of kindergarten and elementary teachers in the public schools.

[1] Shearer took a leave from Long Beach schools in 1928 to work on a textbook about reading.

[16] In 1949 she was chair of an interracial women's public affairs committee at the YWCA in Long Beach.