On Friday, the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers hosted 20 teachers at Levi’s Stadium to launch the College Football Playoff Foundation’s Extra Yard for Teachers platform across the Bay Area. Over the next year, counting down to the college football national championship game due to be held at Levi’s Stadium next January, the program will bring in more teachers and advocate for resources to support STEAM education.
“We have the benefit of leveraging a sports platform for a social cause, in this case education,” said Britton Banowsky, executive director of the CFP Foundation about the Extra Yard initiative. The program is unique in each community where the title game is played, and continues long after the clock runs to zero.