What is the Cougar Co-op?
Channel: The Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education
Date: 10/05/2018

The Cougar Co-op at Crossett Brook Middle School is a student-run business that operates under a sustainable mission guided by the UN's 17 Sustainable Global Goals. It began at the 2017 Cultivating Pathways to Sustainability Conference, in Shelburne VT, and has expanded as students take the lead in designing, sourcing, producing and managing products that meet Global Goals #11 and 12, Sustainable Cities & Communities, and Responsible Production & Consumption.

The Waterbury/Duxbury VT community has been instrumental in helping Crossett Brook students launch their co-op; the co-op then returns their profits to those community businesses that helped them launch, as well as other organizations in need, that help sustain the larger community. 

This is a story about giving, receiving, and constructing an authentic project-based learning experience that aligns with the UN's Global Goals

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