“As schools shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic, Brooks wondered how she would occupy her three boys, cooped up in their Columbia home for an indefinite period. As an English teacher at Oakland Mills High School, she wondered when she might see her students again.
“I was really feeling a sense of community being put on hold,” she said. “And I was really feeling bad about that.”
But the next morning, as she taught a regularly scheduled online writing course for adults, a thought hit her: “Community doesn’t have to end just because you’re not in person.” Brooks already had a succession of interesting people lined up for a speaker series that was to have been held at Oakland Mills High. Why couldn’t they host the talks over Zoom?”
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