The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance is proud to support the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee’s education initiative called SLANT 45.
Bill Lively, the President and CEO of the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee—and the Museum’s 2009 Hope for Humanity honoree—wants a lasting legacy from the Super Bowl, not merely the memories of an exciting football game.
Mr. Lively and SLANT 45 chairman Daryl Johnston hope that this model service learning project will be replicated in the locales of subsequent Super Bowls, and that literally hundreds of thousands of students can be impacted by this type of educational experience. Slant 45 was the football play used by Dallas Cowboy running back Emmitt Smith and Daryl Johnston, who played fullback.
Kathy Chapman, the Museum’s Director of Education and Programming, is a member of the SLANT 45 action committee. She and the committee are working to see that at least 20,000 students in the intermediate grades of North Texas participate in this education initiative.
Service Learning encourages students to look beyond themselves to the needs of others in their schools and communities. Establishing a mindset of seeing a need and taking action to meet that need goes hand in hand with the Museum’s UPSTANDER program. It is essential in sound education to break the prevalent bystander mentality in today’s society. SLANT 45 and the Upstander program both address this issue in very creative and positive ways.
If you are interested in mentoring a SLANT 45 project, initiating a SLANT 45 project at your school, or if you want to see what some incredibly creative and energetic young people have accomplished so far through this program, visit the SLANT45 website.
