Story highlights High school students dance to Bruno Mars/Mark Ronson hit

The video features six theater classes from Dallas high school

(CNN) Which high school teacher would assign his students the Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars can't-stop-dancing-to-it hit "Uptown Funk"?

Don't think fictional "Glee" choir director Will Schuester. And no, not the leader of an admission-by-audition school like the one that inspired the 1980 movie "Fame" and a subsequent television show.

"I heard the song before Christmas and fell in love with it," Pankey told the Dallas Morning News

"We are a project-based school -- there are only two in the Metroplex -- and that means you give the students a project, put them in teams and they have to come up with solutions. They had three weeks to work on it, then present as a group what they learned."

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