We try to make things relevant to the lives of students culturally and by teaching timeless truths. This allows us to be on their field, their turf.

The philosophy is similar. They connect with adults and keep going through middle and high school.

We try to have an emphasis on experimental things.

It just wasn't cost effective for us to run school when half the population wasn't teaching and so many students were missing.

I have to face everyday teaching students who don't have an observatory, ... I'm doing this for them. It's the right thing to do.

During class, our teaching is often aimed at white students or the white norm. Faculty members should be encouraged to create a curriculum where students of color and white students are represented equally.