Service Learning Adventures in North Texas – better known as SLANT 45 – is one of three major education initiatives that the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee will launch as part of its legacy programs. Designed to inspire creativity and build problem-solving skills, this unique service-learning project will positively impact thousands of North Texas school children and their families. It will serve as a model that can be emulated by the NFL in cities and regions hosting future Super Bowls.
SLANT 45 will be one of the largest community-wide service-learning projects for children in U.S. history and the largest in NFL history. Starting in early 2010, an estimated 20,000 elementary age students (grades 3–5) will log a combined 45,000 hours in more than 100 communities that will forever change the face of the region.
North Texas-based Big Thought, one of the leading nonprofit organizations in the nation focused on improving public education through creative learning, will design the concept, curriculum and implementation plan. The JLD will be collaborating with other Leagues in North Texas for this initiative and working with children within our own communities. Those Leagues include Fort Worth, Arlington, Richardson and Plano.
If you’re a JLD member and would like to learn more about the specific 2010-2011 placements related to SLANT 45, click here: Placement Information.
To learn more about how JLD and other area Junior Leagues will be involved in SLANT 45, click here to view the press release.
Other local media articles about SLANT 45:
Dallas Morning News
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Pictures from the SLANT 45 press conference:
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Daryl Johnston, SLANT 45 Action Team Chair | Gigi Antoni, President and CEO, Big Thought |
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Doris Johnson, president of the Mid-Cities chapter of | Members of the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 JLD Boards |
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| Bill Lively, President and CEO of the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee | Leigh Anne Haugh, JLD President-Elect |
