Governor Hogan wants public schools to move into hybrid instruction by next month, bringing more students and staff back to classrooms.

Jim Sellinger, Chancellor of Education for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, tells how the system’s Catholic schools are managing full-time in-person instruction. Brian Kohler, principal of Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore, says he’s observed improvement in the mental health of students since virtual learning ended.

Plus, Cheryl Bost, head of the Maryland State Education Association, shares what public schools need to do to make schools safe for return. Read the letters exchanged between Governor Hogan and MSEA.

Yesterday, Baltimore County released its plan to return students to the classroom. Check out WYPR reporter John Lee's story.

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When boxes and papers and family heirlooms take over, it can be hard to find a path forward. For nearly two decades, social worker Elaine Birchall has been helping clients with compulsive hoarding disorder.

In her book, “Conquer the Clutter” Birchall identifies ways to help people recognize the consequences of hoarding and create a plan to reclaim their space. Original air date: February 27, 2020

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The Healing Youth Alliance is an ambitious project that trains Baltimore City teens about mental wellness and how to talk to professionals about what it’s like to be in young people’s shoes. The ultimate goal is a better path to healing for them, and their peers. Founder and director Professor Kyla Liggett-Creel and faculty member Nia Jones, from the Black Mental Health Alliance, explain how it works. Then Taylor Clinton, a teen ambassador in the program, describes why African American youth--in particular--need a program like this, and why it’s important.

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In recent weeks we’ve profiled the 2020 Class of Open Society Institute-Baltimore Fellows, and you’ve heard about their trailblazing work--like mobile kitchens, urban nature centers, mentoring programs.

Today we speak with OSI-Baltimore director Danielle Torain, at the helm for one year. She says the nonprofit is focused on ways to disrupt patterns of underinvestment in struggling neighborhoods.

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Here is a Stoop Story from Jennifer Mendelsohn about finding family.

You can find information about the Stoop - including upcoming live events and the Stoop podcast - here.

Today would have been the 68th birthday of Dr. Alan Kleiman, a podiatrist who practiced for 40 years in Hampden and made house calls far and wide. He died about six weeks ago. His family tells us he treasured WYPR and especially loved listening to--and later retelling--the poignant, heartwarming, sometimes wacky tales in the Stoop Storytelling Series. The Stoop was one of his favorite parts of Baltimore.

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Where does the Republican Party go from here? We ask Michael Steele--past chair of the Republican National Committee and Maryland’s former lieutenant governor, the first African-American elected statewide. Steele sees Donald Trump still in charge of the party of Lincoln, and no sign of fellow Republicans holding him to account.

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We meet two Open Society Institute fellows working to make Baltimore healthier and safer in 2021.

Troy Staton is leveraging the trust between barbers and clients, and creating a network of hair salons that will bring health care screenings and other resources to their neighborhoods.

And attorney E.V. Yost is recruiting LGBTQ volunteers to staff a hotline and mobile team to respond when members of the queer community experience a crisis. Find this project on Twitter at @qcru_baltimore.

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She operated a tower crane at the Bethlehem Steel plant. When the call came one night to cover a coworker’s shift, she had no option for childcare--so she bundled up her infant and kept the baby with her on the tall crane as she worked. That’s just one of the stories, with photos, on big panels along Key Highway that make up the Baltimore Museum of Industry’s first outdoor exhibit “Women of Steel.” Curating it was a team effort, said marketing coordinator Alexis Ojeda Brown. Exhibitions director Jane Woltereck said the team’s choices inspired her. Plus, we hear a preview of the limited-edition podcast: ‘Sparrows Point: An American Steel Story.’ (Original airdate 11/9/20)

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Even in pre-school, Jessie Dunleavy’s son Paul struggled to learn. His disabilities forced him to switch schools over and over. He turned to poetry, and eventually, after several mental-health diagnoses, to drugs. After he died of an overdose, his mother found a poem alluding to his addiction as a moral disgrace.

In her memoir, "Cover My Dreams In Ink," Dunleavy recounts the sobering lessons she learned from Paul’s life and death. You can check out Dunleavy's blog here.

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Creativity is like a muscle--it gets stronger and more flexible with daily exercise. That’s what the 100 Days Project is after. The online community is all about dedication to making something each day -- and sticking with it, even if you feel you’ve run out of ideas.

Facilitator Lindsay Jean Thomson notes that daily practitioners of creativity hit the same dry patches of boredom as joggers or gym rats--but the results can be life-changing. And her co-facilitator Elle Luna says the project is not only for those who make art every day.

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