Before my participating in the Humanizing STEM Academy, I considered myself a teacher who carries his duties with compassion and a lot of flexibility. Also, before being part of the academy, I had some "Kindness Cues" in my instructional activities, and I will say most of that were extended to students who face family and health emergencies. Were these enough to ensure the success of class participants who face no family and health-related emergencies but face other problems such as low sense of belongingness, homelessness, hunger, lack of personal computers, etc.? Moreover, before being part of the academy, I didn't know anything like a liquid syllabus, and I was more interested in course topics, assignments and exams, due dates without being so conscious about how students could get access to health and wellness services and importantly food pantry available to students. I had a long syllabus with information about health and wellness at the bottom.