Office: S Pod, Engineering Building
Office Phone: (607) 777-9209
Fax: (607) 777-7587
Email: mlawson@binghamton.edu
Dr. Michael Lawson (Assistant Professor of Human Development) is currently examining innovative research and practice designs for student, family and community engagement, as well as mixed method evaluations of school-based and community-based prevention programs. He has nearly 15 years of administrative and evaluative experience with school-community programs serving economically poor parents, families and communities and has served in key leadership roles for several state and county-wide collaborative councils in California, including the California Clearinghouse for Evidence-Based Practices in Child Welfare and Sacramento County's Home Visitation Coordinating Council. Dr. Lawson is currently an evaluator for the SHARE (Safe Health Attitudes Require Education) project serving 53 schools in 10 school districts in Broome County. Dr. Lawson earned his PhD in Education from the University of California at Davis.
Courses regularly taught
Lawson, M., & Alameda-Lawson, T. (in press). A case study of school-linked, collective parent engagement. American Educational Research Journal.
Alameda-Lawson, T., Lawson, M., & Lawson, H (2010). Social Workers’ Roles in Facilitating the Collective Involvement of Low-income, Culturally Diverse Parents in an Elementary School. Children & Schools, 32 (3), 172-182.
Timar, T., Biag, M. & Lawson, M (2007). Does state policy help or hurt the dropout problem in California? California Dropout Research Project. UC Santa Barbara: Gervitz Graduate School of Education.
Lawson, M (2003). School-family relations in context: Parent and teacher perceptions of parent involvement. Urban Education, 38(1), 77-133.
Alameda-Lawson, T. & Lawson, M (2002). Building community collaboratives. In O’Melia, M & Miley, K. (Eds.), Pathways to power: Readings in contextual social work practice (pp 108-128). Allyn & Bacon: Boston.
Lawson, M., & Alameda-Lawson, T (2001). What’s wrong with them is what’s wrong with us. Journal of Community Practice, 9(1), 77-97.
