Giving Compass' Take:

• Education Dive interviews a Massachusetts high school journalism teacher, who is trying to instill fundamentals in his students, while inviting open and honest debate.

• While many may be pessimistic about the future of media, this article provides some hope, noting that more young people are enrolling in journalism schools; instructors such as the one profiled here are a big reason why.

• Here are five tips on how to bring the "solutions journalism" method to your classroom.

For David Cutler, teaching journalism is like driver’s ed: His students might learn a bit in his classroom, but most of their skills will come from getting on the road. And he wants them to start driving early.

"You really learn most of it on the road actually doing it and learning from your mistakes and going back into the field to correct those mistakes," he told Education Dive. "To the best I can, I want to set them out into the field. I want to get them on the road, so to speak, as quickly as possible."

A journalist by trade, Cutler knows the drill. The journalism, government and history teacher at the Brimmer and May School in Chestnut Hill, Mass., has had reporting stints at multiple papers in the state, including The Boston Globe. But something was missing: He wanted to share his passion for journalism and history.

He came back to the classroom full time, where he equips young reporters with the fundamentals — writing ledes, constructing nut grafs and interviewing sources — before sending them off to report.

Other central journalistic pillars, like accuracy and objectivity, are a little more complicated, especially during a time when President Donald Trump and other officials often call them into question. But this "fake news" era, along with new storytelling methods, seems to be causing an upward jolt in journalism school enrollment, The Washington Post recently reported. And it's changing the way teachers like Cutler prepare students for the real world.

Read the full article about a journalism teacher's philosophy by Jessica Campisi at Education Dive.