Associate Professor
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Hilary Dack (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is an Associate Professor in the department of Middle, Secondary, and K-12 Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her areas of specialization are differentiated instruction and high-quality curriculum design (including Understanding by Design) in K-12 general education classrooms. Dr. Dack’s current research focuses on how teacher education programs prepare preservice and early career teachers for effective instructional decision-making. Her research has been published in respected journals including Teaching and Teacher Education, Journal of Counseling & Development, and Theory & Research in Social Education, and she serves on the International Editorial Advisory Board of Learning and Instruction. Her publications for practitioners on engaging curriculum and the importance of cultural responsiveness, co-authored with Carol Tomlinson, have appeared in Phi Delta Kappan and Educational Leadership.
Dr. Dack’s scholarship has earned the American Educational Research Association’s Social Studies Research SIG Outstanding Paper Award and the Cato College of Education’s Award for Excellence in Research. Dr. Dack was also the recipient of the University of Virginia’s Bruce Gansneder Outstanding Dissertation Award and the University of Virginia’s Edgar F. Shannon Award given annually to the School of Education’s outstanding graduate. She is the immediate past president of the National Association of Professors of Middle Level Education and has served as a resource expert on middle grades education to North Carolina legislators and policymakers.
Dr. Dack teaches introductory courses on instructional design and foundations in middle grades education, as well as advanced courses on differentiated instruction and curriculum development. In 2022, she received the Cato College of Education’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Before earning her Ph.D., Dr. Dack taught social studies, language arts, science, math, and English as a second language at the middle grades level. She regularly leads professional development workshops for elementary, middle, and high school faculties on differentiated instruction and high-quality curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
1:30 PM – 1:50 PM MST