Jewell Cardwell: Green football players pass on spirit to younger special ed class
Joe Anderson, an intervention specialist at Green Intermediate School, watches as students from his small group instruction class are helped with building wooden cars by members of Anderson's Green High School freshman football team in Green. (Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal)
Joey Wood, (right) of the Green High School freshman football team, assists Porter Flinn, 10, in building a car made out of wood in the small group instruction class of intervention specialist Joe Anderson at Green Intermediate School. Anderson is the coach of Green's freshman football team and team members come in to work as big buddies for his students. (Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal)
(From left) Zac Ciocca, 15, Morgen Smoot, 10, Spencer Simile, 14, Robby Charles, 11, Brady Gainer, 10, Tanner Montgomery, 15, James Angel, 14, and Luciano Armanetti, 12, work on their wood building projects in the small instruction class of intervention specialist Joe Anderson at Green Intermediate School. Anderson is the coach of Green's freshman football team and team members come in to work as big buddies for his students with class projects. (Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal)
Joe Anderson (left), an intervention specialist at Green Intermediate School, checks out the wooden dragon completed by his student Bain Emerick, 11, (right) who was assisted by Sam Baker, 14, (center) of the Green High School football team. Anderson is the coach of Green's freshman football team and team members come in to work as big buddies for his students. (Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal)
