Hey, Shepard Students, What Do You Say? Mentor Program Creates Video to Cheer on Cubs

Whatever your baseball allegiance, this will make you smile. POWER is a physical education course in which regular education students serve as mentors for special education students.

Wednesday, Shepard High School teacher Ashley Lythberg and her students collaborated to create the video that appears below.

"I had to channel all my excitement and nervous Cubs energy into something while I waited for the World Series to begin. We had a couple hesitant Sox fan students, but they were eventually persuaded and we
had 100% participation," Lythberg said.

Everyone—even the Sox fans—enjoyed working on the video.

"The students had a blast. The mentors did a great job working with their buddies—making sure everyone was included and had a role. Our mentors have really come out of their shell since the start of the year—they
know POWER is a place where it is okay to act goofy once in a while and always make sure their buddies are having as much fun as they are! You can tell by the looks on the faces of all the students in the video that
they had a blast making this movie," she said.

Art teacher Jen Glaz helped with the stop motion you see.

"We are working on stop motion videos in my team taught Art class with Jen Glaz, so she gave me a few pointers on our project last week and I just got the idea from there and ran with it. I found an awesome app, Stop Motion Studio (free) that made it pretty easy and I didn’t have to do much as far as editing," Lythberg said.