The Lesson Plan For A New School: Teaching 'Joyous Service'

...Four of the five founding teachers, the 31-year-old Delhagen among them, came together from a nearby charter, where they'd had success producing high test scores among low-income students. But they had felt stifled in what they see as a more vital task: developing human beings...
...On the first day of school, Delhagen had his students assume the role of reporters in Ferguson, Mo., covering the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. They were to construct "tweets" based on photos posted around the classroom. Brown was depicted on camera robbing a convenience store, in his high school cap and gown, and smiling with his family. Depending on which photo was provided to the media, he could be seen as a thug, a scholar or someone's child. The whole truth, students learned, involves multiple points of view......
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/11/23/456801624/recipe-for-a-new-school-add-great-teachers