Summer reading idea

I just finished exchanging a series of e-mails with my Head of School about several tech-related topics and she came up with an idea that I think is great. We have an all-school reading over the summer that all of our students and faculty read around the upcoming school year’s theme. This year our theme is “Doing the right thing” and the all-school reading is the Rebecca Skloot book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. There is a Convocation in early  September about the book and the theme for the year. Lucky me, I get to give the talk this year! Rather than wait until school starts to discuss the book, we thought it might be interesting to engage our students and faculty in a Twitter chat about the book before school starts. While many of the students and certainly many of the faculty are not active Twitter users, this might be a way to nudge them off the sidelines and into the fray.

Have you tried this in your school? Thoughts? Suggestions? Please share your thoughts and ideas! Thanks.