Research Interests:
Dr. Dilgard explores professional learning, interventions, instructional strategies, and teaching methods for elementary literacy. Specifically, her research emphasizes:
- Developing and implementing measures and professional learning to support pre-service and in-service teachers to instruct morphology
- Creating interventions, curriculums, and instructional materials to support students’ learning of morphology
- Supporting teachers to embed disciplinary literacy skills in math, science, social studies, and cross-curricular reading
- Preparing preservice teachers with the skills to teach literacy based on the science of reading
- Mentoring literacy coaches to deliver professional development, form coaching partnerships, and foster self-efficacy for coaching
