Hal A Lawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3805587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hal A Lawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hal A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawson |
| SIGNATURE | LAWSON H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2664-4782 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Community Collaboration Model for School Improvement
Schools worldwide are developing innovative models in response to, and in anticipation of, societal changes. Aiming to address non-academic barriers to learning, while capitalizing on out-of-school time, some school and community leaders have prioritized family and community partnerships, especially in the United States (U.S.). The Community Collaboration Model (CCM) is one such U.S. partnership-oriented model of expanded school improvement. In c…
Advancing Educational Equity Research, Policy, and Practice
As student populations worldwide become more diverse and many are challenged by poverty and social exclusion, educational equity’s importance grows, both as a core value and as a driver for school improvement and redesign. While national and local policies vary, as do resources in support of equity outcomes, it is timely to identify, synthesize, and evaluate the available research with special attention to commonalities, similarities, and lessons…
Framing Leaders’ Discourses on College and Career Readiness
Purpose: This multiple comparative case study investigated district and high school leaders’ framing mechanisms and discourses around priorities and challenges to understand their equity aims and their preparation of diverse student populations’ college, career, and civic readiness. Research Methods/Approach: This research used framing theory to examine semistructured interviews and focus groups with 34 educational leaders from four sample school…
St-Century Physical Education Ambassadors and Architects
This brief analysis is a call for action with fresh opportunities for leadership and innovation. Teachers, teacher educators, and their allies need to take stock of needs and opportunities to serve as program architects and ambassadors. This is a game-changer because, until now, professionals were charged with faithful implementation and advocacy for what others prioritized. In contrast, in today's world, a growing number must be like architects …
Student Engagement and Disengagement as a Collective Action Problem
Isolated teachers in stand-alone American schools are expected to engage diverse students in the quest to facilitate their academic learning and achievement. This strategy assumes that all students will come to school ready and able to learn, and educators in stand-alone schools can meet the needs of all students. Student disengagement gets short shrift in this framework, and so does teacher disengagement. A growing body of research emphasizes ne…
Teacher and Student Reciprocal Agency in Odds-Beating Schools
Background/Context In the field of education, the lens of agency has provided a valuable conceptual alternative to deterministic portrayals of schools as oppressive institutions where teachers and students have little power over the conditions in which they teach and learn. A number of studies have investigated teacher and student agency, but few have explored the relationships between the two, particularly in regard to how teacher and student ag…
Parental monitoring, the parent-child relationship and children's academic engagement in mother-headed single-parent families
Compass-Aim
COMPASS-AIM is a set of processes and tools used by participants in a research–practice partnership (RPP) to improve organizational capacities and individual and team competencies for organizational learning and improvement. The “COMPASS” team includes teams of teachers and school leaders who work with a university researcher and expert professional developers. Improvement teams begin by COMParing practices in their own setting to those in higher…
The Empowerment of Low-Income Parents Engaged in a Childhood Obesity Intervention
Parents influence children's obesity risk factors but are infrequently targeted for interventions. This study targeting low-income parents integrated a community-based participatory research approach with the Family Ecological Model and Empowerment Theory to develop a childhood obesity intervention. This article (1) examines pre- to postintervention changes in parents' empowerment; (2) determines the effects of intervention dose on empowerment, a…
Exploring Linkages between School Climate, Behavioral Norms, Social Supports, and Academic Success
This article presents an exploratory study that examined the effects of school climate; students' perceptions of supports; and behavioral norms in their homes, schools, and neighborhoods on student behavior and grades. The authors conducted a multilevel analysis of secondary data collected from 13,068 predominantly low-income middle school students across 43 school sites. The analysis was informed by ecological theory and a risk and resilience pe…
New Conceptual Frameworks for Student Engagement Research, Policy, and Practice
Student engagement research, policy, and practice are even more important in today’s race-to-the top policy environment. With a priority goal of postsecondary completion with advanced competence, today’s students must be engaged longer and more deeply. This need is especially salient for students attending schools located in segregated, high-poverty neighborhoods and isolated rural communities. Here, engagement research, policy, and practice must…
Family Ecological Predictors of Physical Activity Parenting in Low-Income Families
Physical activity (PA) parenting, or strategies parents use to promote PA in children, has been associated with increased PA in children of all ages, including preschool-aged children. However, little is known about the circumstances under which parents adopt such behaviors. This study examined family ecological factors associated with PA parenting. Low-income parents (N = 145) of preschool-aged children (aged 2 to 5 years) were recruited from fi…
Reframing family-centred obesity prevention using the Family Ecological Model
Objective According to the Family Ecological Model (FEM), parenting behaviours are shaped by the contexts in which families are embedded. In the present study, we utilize the FEM to guide a mixed-methods community assessment and summarize the results. Additionally, we discuss the utility of the FEM and outline possible improvements. Design Using a cross-sectional design, qualitative and quantitative methods were used to examine the ecologies of p…
Third-Generation Partnerships for P-16 Pipelines and Cradle-Through-Career Education Systems
Amid unprecedented novelty, complexity, turbulence, and conflict, it is apparent that a new education system is needed. Focused on a new outcome—postsecondary education completion with advanced competence—heretofore separate systems for early childhood, K-12 schools, and postsecondary education are being joined in P-16 pipelines and Cradle-Through-Career Education Systems. Both are new institutional designs, and they necessitate specially designe…
Paradigms, exemplars and social change
Researchers’ social-cultural organization influences the scope, quality, quantity, coherence, dissemination, utilization and impact of research-based, theoretically sound knowledge. Five concepts—paradigm, exemplar, segment, network and gatekeeper—are salient to research on researchers’ organization. Autobiographical reflections signal these concepts’ salience to knowledge generation, school program designs and researchers’ career patterns. These…
Child Welfare Design Teams
Workforce turnover in public child welfare is a national problem. Individual, supervisory, and organizational factors, individually and in combination, account for some of the turnover. Complex, comprehensive interventions are needed to address these several factors and their interactions. A research and development team is field testing one such intervention. The three-component intervention encompasses management consultations, capacity buildin…
Deriving Theories of Change from Successful Community Development Partnerships for Youths
Community development partnerships for youths offer valuable resources for school improvement. Unfortunately, these resources may not be tapped because school leaders have not been prepared to understand these partnerships. The evaluative research reported partnership‐related understanding, aiming to prepare leaders to contribute to, and benefit from, partnerships. This research employed case study methodology to derive theories of change from fi…
Empowering people, facilitating community development, and contributing to sustainable development
Do sport, exercise, and physical education (SEPE) professionals empower the people they serve and contribute to community development? Do SEPE policies, programs, and practices contribute to sustainable economic and social development, making them worthwhile governmental investments? These questions frame the ensuing analysis. Empowerment-oriented and community-based SEPE programs, and practices may contribute to sustainable development in five r…
Design Teams as Learning Systems for Complex Systems Change
Systems change in child welfare and cross-systems change involving other service sectors are needed in response to two developments: (1) New policy mandates (e.g., TANF, AS FA) and (2) Research on the co-occurring and interlocking needs of many child welfare families. A four-state initiative was structured in response to these needs. Collaborative learning and action research groups called design teams were structured to identify competencies and…
Toward Healthy Learners, Schools, and Communities
Issues of vision, innovation, mission, outcomes and competent practice
Beyond the New Conception of Teacher Induction
During the past 20 years the term induction was given new meaning in education, replacing the traditional conception. Today, induction refers to preplanned, structured, and short term assistance programs offered in schools for beginning teachers. This new conception owes its popularity to three convergent influences: educational research, political intrusions, and educators' reform proposals. Benefits of this new conception include the attention …
Constraints on the Professional Service of Education Faculty
Increases in external services performed by faculty are integral to the reform agendas for K-12 schools and departments, colleges, and schools of education. Calling for increased external serv ice and collaboration, however, will not by itself achieve this intended outcome. First, we need to understand the constraints that limit faculty service. These constraints include (a) the accom modation of education faculty to the perceived norms of facult…
Occupational Socialization and the Design of Teacher Education Programs
The following analysis is one-sided and selective. It is an attempt to derive guidelines for the design of teacher education programs from recent work on the occupational socialization of physical educationists. The work cited is limited almost exclusively to that completed by the author and his former students. This can be justified insofar as this analysis doubles as a benchmark for an additive and integrative research program, indicating which…
Knowledge for Work in the Physical Education Profession
Specialized, theoretical knowledge is important to professions such as physical education as they attempt to gain and later maintain their status and control over the labor market. This knowledge must be monopolized and used in work by the profession’s members if they are to be granted this status and control by society’s members. Upon examination physical educationists do not enjoy a knowledge monopoly, nor do they appear to use their specialize…
Empowering people, facilitating community development, and contributing to sustainable development
Do sport, exercise, and physical education (SEPE) professionals empower the people they serve and contribute to community development? Do SEPE policies, programs, and practices contribute to sustainable economic and social development, making them worthwhile governmental investments? These questions frame the ensuing analysis. Empowerment-oriented and community-based SEPE programs, and practices may contribute to sustainable development in five r…
Child Welfare Design Teams
Workforce turnover in public child welfare is a national problem. Individual, supervisory, and organizational factors, individually and in combination, account for some of the turnover. Complex, comprehensive interventions are needed to address these several factors and their interactions. A research and development team is field testing one such intervention. The three-component intervention encompasses management consultations, capacity buildin…
Design Teams as Learning Systems for Complex Systems Change
Systems change in child welfare and cross-systems change involving other service sectors are needed in response to two developments: (1) New policy mandates (e.g., TANF, AS FA) and (2) Research on the co-occurring and interlocking needs of many child welfare families. A four-state initiative was structured in response to these needs. Collaborative learning and action research groups called design teams were structured to identify competencies and…
Parental monitoring, the parent-child relationship and children's academic engagement in mother-headed single-parent families
Exploring Linkages between School Climate, Behavioral Norms, Social Supports, and Academic Success
This article presents an exploratory study that examined the effects of school climate; students' perceptions of supports; and behavioral norms in their homes, schools, and neighborhoods on student behavior and grades. The authors conducted a multilevel analysis of secondary data collected from 13,068 predominantly low-income middle school students across 43 school sites. The analysis was informed by ecological theory and a risk and resilience pe…
Paradigms, exemplars and social change
Researchers’ social-cultural organization influences the scope, quality, quantity, coherence, dissemination, utilization and impact of research-based, theoretically sound knowledge. Five concepts—paradigm, exemplar, segment, network and gatekeeper—are salient to research on researchers’ organization. Autobiographical reflections signal these concepts’ salience to knowledge generation, school program designs and researchers’ career patterns. These…
Third-Generation Partnerships for P-16 Pipelines and Cradle-Through-Career Education Systems
Amid unprecedented novelty, complexity, turbulence, and conflict, it is apparent that a new education system is needed. Focused on a new outcome—postsecondary education completion with advanced competence—heretofore separate systems for early childhood, K-12 schools, and postsecondary education are being joined in P-16 pipelines and Cradle-Through-Career Education Systems. Both are new institutional designs, and they necessitate specially designe…
Beyond the New Conception of Teacher Induction
During the past 20 years the term induction was given new meaning in education, replacing the traditional conception. Today, induction refers to preplanned, structured, and short term assistance programs offered in schools for beginning teachers. This new conception owes its popularity to three convergent influences: educational research, political intrusions, and educators' reform proposals. Benefits of this new conception include the attention …
Knowledge for Work in the Physical Education Profession
Specialized, theoretical knowledge is important to professions such as physical education as they attempt to gain and later maintain their status and control over the labor market. This knowledge must be monopolized and used in work by the profession’s members if they are to be granted this status and control by society’s members. Upon examination physical educationists do not enjoy a knowledge monopoly, nor do they appear to use their specialize…
Toward Healthy Learners, Schools, and Communities
Constraints on the Professional Service of Education Faculty
Increases in external services performed by faculty are integral to the reform agendas for K-12 schools and departments, colleges, and schools of education. Calling for increased external serv ice and collaboration, however, will not by itself achieve this intended outcome. First, we need to understand the constraints that limit faculty service. These constraints include (a) the accom modation of education faculty to the perceived norms of facult…
Physical Education and Sport in the Black Community
Members of the mass media have asserted that sport provides Black people with an invaluable mechanism for socio-economic mobility. Sport, is also suggested, is the great equalizer which promotes interracial harmony. This media-created depiction finds its support primarily in the analyses of members of the broadcasting and publishing industries themselves-analyses which focus upon the number of Black males who excel in, or have succeeded because o…
Toward a Model of Teacher Socialization in Physical Education
Toward a Model of Teacher Socialization in Physical Education
Knowledge for Work in the Physical Education Profession
Specialized, theoretical knowledge is important to professions such as physical education as they attempt to gain and later maintain their status and control over the labor market. This knowledge must be monopolized and used in work by the profession’s members if they are to be granted this status and control by society’s members. Upon examination physical educationists do not enjoy a knowledge monopoly, nor do they appear to use their specialize…
Occupational Socialization and the Design of Teacher Education Programs
The following analysis is one-sided and selective. It is an attempt to derive guidelines for the design of teacher education programs from recent work on the occupational socialization of physical educationists. The work cited is limited almost exclusively to that completed by the author and his former students. This can be justified insofar as this analysis doubles as a benchmark for an additive and integrative research program, indicating which…
Constraints on the Professional Service of Education Faculty
Increases in external services performed by faculty are integral to the reform agendas for K-12 schools and departments, colleges, and schools of education. Calling for increased external serv ice and collaboration, however, will not by itself achieve this intended outcome. First, we need to understand the constraints that limit faculty service. These constraints include (a) the accom modation of education faculty to the perceived norms of facult…
Beyond the New Conception of Teacher Induction
During the past 20 years the term induction was given new meaning in education, replacing the traditional conception. Today, induction refers to preplanned, structured, and short term assistance programs offered in schools for beginning teachers. This new conception owes its popularity to three convergent influences: educational research, political intrusions, and educators' reform proposals. Benefits of this new conception include the attention …
Issues of vision, innovation, mission, outcomes and competent practice
Toward Healthy Learners, Schools, and Communities
Design Teams as Learning Systems for Complex Systems Change
Systems change in child welfare and cross-systems change involving other service sectors are needed in response to two developments: (1) New policy mandates (e.g., TANF, AS FA) and (2) Research on the co-occurring and interlocking needs of many child welfare families. A four-state initiative was structured in response to these needs. Collaborative learning and action research groups called design teams were structured to identify competencies and…
Empowering people, facilitating community development, and contributing to sustainable development
Do sport, exercise, and physical education (SEPE) professionals empower the people they serve and contribute to community development? Do SEPE policies, programs, and practices contribute to sustainable economic and social development, making them worthwhile governmental investments? These questions frame the ensuing analysis. Empowerment-oriented and community-based SEPE programs, and practices may contribute to sustainable development in five r…
Child Welfare Design Teams
Workforce turnover in public child welfare is a national problem. Individual, supervisory, and organizational factors, individually and in combination, account for some of the turnover. Complex, comprehensive interventions are needed to address these several factors and their interactions. A research and development team is field testing one such intervention. The three-component intervention encompasses management consultations, capacity buildin…
Deriving Theories of Change from Successful Community Development Partnerships for Youths
Community development partnerships for youths offer valuable resources for school improvement. Unfortunately, these resources may not be tapped because school leaders have not been prepared to understand these partnerships. The evaluative research reported partnership‐related understanding, aiming to prepare leaders to contribute to, and benefit from, partnerships. This research employed case study methodology to derive theories of change from fi…
Paradigms, exemplars and social change
Researchers’ social-cultural organization influences the scope, quality, quantity, coherence, dissemination, utilization and impact of research-based, theoretically sound knowledge. Five concepts—paradigm, exemplar, segment, network and gatekeeper—are salient to research on researchers’ organization. Autobiographical reflections signal these concepts’ salience to knowledge generation, school program designs and researchers’ career patterns. These…
New Conceptual Frameworks for Student Engagement Research, Policy, and Practice
Student engagement research, policy, and practice are even more important in today’s race-to-the top policy environment. With a priority goal of postsecondary completion with advanced competence, today’s students must be engaged longer and more deeply. This need is especially salient for students attending schools located in segregated, high-poverty neighborhoods and isolated rural communities. Here, engagement research, policy, and practice must…
Family Ecological Predictors of Physical Activity Parenting in Low-Income Families
Physical activity (PA) parenting, or strategies parents use to promote PA in children, has been associated with increased PA in children of all ages, including preschool-aged children. However, little is known about the circumstances under which parents adopt such behaviors. This study examined family ecological factors associated with PA parenting. Low-income parents (N = 145) of preschool-aged children (aged 2 to 5 years) were recruited from fi…
Reframing family-centred obesity prevention using the Family Ecological Model
Objective According to the Family Ecological Model (FEM), parenting behaviours are shaped by the contexts in which families are embedded. In the present study, we utilize the FEM to guide a mixed-methods community assessment and summarize the results. Additionally, we discuss the utility of the FEM and outline possible improvements. Design Using a cross-sectional design, qualitative and quantitative methods were used to examine the ecologies of p…
Third-Generation Partnerships for P-16 Pipelines and Cradle-Through-Career Education Systems
Amid unprecedented novelty, complexity, turbulence, and conflict, it is apparent that a new education system is needed. Focused on a new outcome—postsecondary education completion with advanced competence—heretofore separate systems for early childhood, K-12 schools, and postsecondary education are being joined in P-16 pipelines and Cradle-Through-Career Education Systems. Both are new institutional designs, and they necessitate specially designe…
The Empowerment of Low-Income Parents Engaged in a Childhood Obesity Intervention
Parents influence children's obesity risk factors but are infrequently targeted for interventions. This study targeting low-income parents integrated a community-based participatory research approach with the Family Ecological Model and Empowerment Theory to develop a childhood obesity intervention. This article (1) examines pre- to postintervention changes in parents' empowerment; (2) determines the effects of intervention dose on empowerment, a…
Exploring Linkages between School Climate, Behavioral Norms, Social Supports, and Academic Success
This article presents an exploratory study that examined the effects of school climate; students' perceptions of supports; and behavioral norms in their homes, schools, and neighborhoods on student behavior and grades. The authors conducted a multilevel analysis of secondary data collected from 13,068 predominantly low-income middle school students across 43 school sites. The analysis was informed by ecological theory and a risk and resilience pe…
Parental monitoring, the parent-child relationship and children's academic engagement in mother-headed single-parent families
Compass-Aim
COMPASS-AIM is a set of processes and tools used by participants in a research–practice partnership (RPP) to improve organizational capacities and individual and team competencies for organizational learning and improvement. The “COMPASS” team includes teams of teachers and school leaders who work with a university researcher and expert professional developers. Improvement teams begin by COMParing practices in their own setting to those in higher…
Student Engagement and Disengagement as a Collective Action Problem
Isolated teachers in stand-alone American schools are expected to engage diverse students in the quest to facilitate their academic learning and achievement. This strategy assumes that all students will come to school ready and able to learn, and educators in stand-alone schools can meet the needs of all students. Student disengagement gets short shrift in this framework, and so does teacher disengagement. A growing body of research emphasizes ne…
Teacher and Student Reciprocal Agency in Odds-Beating Schools
Background/Context In the field of education, the lens of agency has provided a valuable conceptual alternative to deterministic portrayals of schools as oppressive institutions where teachers and students have little power over the conditions in which they teach and learn. A number of studies have investigated teacher and student agency, but few have explored the relationships between the two, particularly in regard to how teacher and student ag…
St-Century Physical Education Ambassadors and Architects
This brief analysis is a call for action with fresh opportunities for leadership and innovation. Teachers, teacher educators, and their allies need to take stock of needs and opportunities to serve as program architects and ambassadors. This is a game-changer because, until now, professionals were charged with faithful implementation and advocacy for what others prioritized. In contrast, in today's world, a growing number must be like architects …
Psychology (25 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Pedagogy (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Public relations (13 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (7 works) · Mathematics education (7 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (7 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (7 works)