- Will, uh, heard that there
was somebody in the audience he wanted to meet, right? - Yes, there's someone here
I want to meet. Her name is, uh,
Shani Glasby. - Shani--
[laughter] She was in
"The Price Is Right." All right. - Hi! [cheers and applause] - How are you?
- How you doing? [inaudible chatter] - Hi, Ellen.
- Hi. - Hi, Ellen.
- How are you? - Here, have a seat, Shani.
Have a seat. - All right, [laughter].
- Hi. - Hi.
- Do I have--do I have a mic? - You have a mic, here. Oh, you have to switch chairs.
- Okay. - All right, we'll switch.
Okay. - There's a mic in that chair.
- There's a mic in that chair. Okay.
- So we'll-- we'll attach her to that mic.
- Sit there. Wait, but, no, then maybe
you should sit-- - Okay, and then I'll sit here. - And next to me,
maybe you should go-- maybe you should--
okay. - What happened
to the mic? All right, well.
- You got-- - All right.
- Wait, hold on. - We're out of time.
[laughter] Be kind to one another.
Bye. [laughter] - All right, here we go.
- Okay, you got it? Yeah, this'll work.
- There we go. - All right, surprise.
This is a planned surprise. - That went well, Ellen.
- All right, right. You're gonna go here now.
- Okay, we'll go back. All right.
- I'll go here. - You got that, yes.
- All right. - All right.
Whoo. - Oh, my gosh. We figured that out.
- Geez. - Oh, man.
- I'm exhausted. - Me too.
That's the most I've worked in a long time. - You are so high maintenance.
- Oh, see, I can't help it. - Hi, Shani.
- Hi. - Hi.
Tell, uh, tell everybody why you wanted to meet Shani. - Well, so, Shani is--
is a third grade teacher, and, uh, you know,
I've been checking you out. I got--I got my folks
checking on you. - Oh, okay.
- And, uh, Shani, the-- their--her children
didn't have afterschool programs at the school,
so she put it together herself. And she--how many--
how many kids is it in the program?
- It has 28 kids right now. - 28 kids.
- So it's a step-- explain what step is. - A step team
is basically a group of people who get together
and they use their entire body as an instrument.
- Mm-hmm. And the make sounds and rhythms
with hand clapping foot stomping, you know.
- Ooh. Things like that.
- Ooh, stop playing. Stop playing, girl.
Stop playing. [laughter] - All right.
- You know, so I saw-- I saw this story and, uh,
so Ellen and I talked about it. So we--we want to be a part
of helping you out. - Oh, my gosh. - Why did you start this
in the first place? - Well I started it because
the kids in our school-- we have a Title I school,
and so the children just go home and go to school
and that's all they do. And so I wanted to do something
where they felt like they belong.
- Right. - And I really wanted
the kids to learn how to believe in themselves. So I just started something
where the kids can just work hard,
get good grades, you know,
have good behavior. And just something
that makes them feel like they're
a part of something. - What's amazing, Shani,
is that, you know, and even though
you don't need instruments you're using your hands
and your body as instruments it still costs like $70
for a pair of shoes to do this, right?
- Yes. And like a lot of teachers
you were using your own money and spending your own money
to help these kids so that they have shoes, right?
- Absolutely, yup. - You have to do
what you have to do. - All right, well-- so you don't know this. We surprised you
calling you down here. We also surprised you because
your kids are here. So we're gonna watch them. [laughter] [cheers and applause] [cheering] - Come on. - Oh! Oh! - For Ellen! [clapping in rhythm] [clapping and stomping
in rhythm] - Ellen. all: Be generous. Be kind to one another. [cheers and applause] - Oh, my God. [cheers and applause] - Shani, uh,
our friends at Shutterfly think you're a game changer
as well and they want to give you
a check for $10,000. [cheers and applause]
