Professors, teachers, and government employees appear to be working together, coordinating the best ways to teach “Ferguson.”

Peter Hasson of Campus Reform has the disturbing report:

Uncovered: How academics are teaching Ferguson, Baltimore with a Google Doc

llege professors, high school teachers, a Department of Defense employee, education consultants for the Library of Congress, and a CEO of a Fortune 100 best company to work for. Those are just a handful of the academics who have been collaborating on a widely shared Google Doc, obtained by Campus Reform, full of lesson plans and other resources to tell their preferred narrative of the deaths of black males in Ferguson and Baltimore, among other places.

The resources and lesson plans, broken down in further detail, range from memorials for Michael Brown, to drawing comparisons between today’s rioters and the American patriots who took part in the Boston Tea Party.

And it all started with a hashtag.

The #FergusonSyllabus hashtag began in the aftermath of the protests in Ferguson, Mo., last year when Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed in a confrontation with police officer Darren Wilson. Georgetown Professor Dr. Marcia Chatelain created the hashtag “to recommend texts, collaborate on conversation starters, and inspire dialogue about some aspect of the Ferguson crisis” for academics on the social networking site.

But it didn’t take long before the Ferguson syllabus grew from just a conversation on Twitter to a shared document among more than 400 academics, scholars, business owners, and teachers. Texas Women’s University professor Dr. Dan Krutka created the Google Document, titled Teaching #Ferguson Resources.”

In an email to Campus Reform, Krutka confirmed he began the shared project.

“Some social studies teachers on Twitter wanted to discuss how to address Ferguson in their classrooms and so I created a crowdsourced document to help them do so,” Krutka said. “I haven’t [done] a lot with the document beyond that.”