Video premiere: Wellesley Sprague teachers don camo, push summer reading

Teachers at Wellesley’s Sprague Elementary School have taken to YouTube in an effort to encourage students to get wild about reading over the summer.

Now that we think about, this is a brilliant scheme: If kids stumble upon their teachers dancing around on YouTube that might just be enough to keep them far away from the computers and make them scurry to the safe confines of books…

This isn’t the first time Sprague teachers have shown off on video. Here’s their take on the “Call Me Maybe” YouTube  video craze that Harvard’s baseball team started and that Wellesley College and others joined.