- 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]