Since the founding of Donnelly College in 1949, the leadership team and volunteer Board of Directors have been committed to providing high quality accessible education in the urban core of Kansas City, Kansas.
The Field Middle School Building Leadership Team is a committee of general education teachers, an Encore teacher, an Intervention Specialist, a support staff member, and an administrator. This diverse group works together to plan strategies to meet our district goals as set by the District Leadership Team (DLT) and Making Middle Grades Work teams. Our meetings are held monthly.
Open source software (OSS) has become an important organizational form of building software. Given the desire to understand drivers of OSS project success and the known importance of social structure for team functioning, we investigate the effects of the relative size of contribution-based subgroups on community size of OSS projects. Drawing on extant research on OSS and faultline-based subgrouping, we investigate the relation with project community size of the relative size of subgroups based on reputation, issue focus, contribution extent and contribution persistence. While in several instances non-significant, results suggest a differential relation in which a large share of core members with high reputation, issue focus and persistent contributions positively relate to community size, whereas a large share of extensively contributing members in the core team is negatively related. Our findings are of value to research and practice by furthering the understanding of work in OSS projects.
The primary emphasis of all teams is the Juvenile Division's core philosophy of accountability; however, each team makes a distinct and separate contribution to the best interests of the juveniles it serves. Juveniles often receive services from multiple teams.
A core team of highly trained individuals whose work will focus solely on the ASCEND Program will offer students structured support, scheduled guidance, individualized coaching, and peer and graduate mentoring that will help the students develop independence and self-advocacy.
A core team of faculty and staff led by Dean of Academic Affairs Dr. Michael Orf and Associate Professor of Child and Family Development Dr. Brenda Smith began the process in July 2021. From August 2021 through April 2022, the team reviewed the strategic planning process and analyzed the current campus goals while focusing on the framework of student success.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by impairments in social communication and restrictive and repetitive behaviors. Most current pharmacological treatments of ASD focus on symptoms such as agitation, anxiety, obsessive behaviors, and depression; however, there are no drugs proven to address the core components of autism, such as language and social interaction. Propranolol is a drug used to treat hypertension, but is also known for its anti-anxiety effects and used to treat performance and public speaking anxiety. In a small study, Dr. David Beversdorf and his team previously reported a significant beneficial effect from a single dose of propranolol on a structured social interaction task in ASD. With support from a Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Autism Research Program Clinical Trial Award, Dr. Beversdorf conducted a large study aimed at investigating the effect of propranolol on youth with ASD and determine whether the team can find specific markers to predict response.
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