By partnering with schools, we can enhance students’ educational journey, helping them develop essential life skills that extend beyond the classroom.
Scouting Is your
Partner in Education
Community Partner In Education
Together, We Build Future Leaders
Adventures in Scouting aligns with dozens of Montana Academic Content Standards and reinforces them while using a whole-child focus to build character and belonging.
Scouting and local schools share a common goal – to develop young people into engaged, responsible, and capable citizens.
Youth Involved in Scouting:
Are identified as demonstrating higher effective and cognitive regard for learning science content.
Have higher academic and conduct grades, constructive peer relations, and positive emotional adjustment.
Youth who regularly spend time outdoors – especially in nature-based or wilderness programs – often show improved behavior, stronger self-regulation, better attention, and fewer disciplinary incidents at school.
Develop pro-social behaviors, career goals, tolerant beliefs, and positive character attributes.
Scouts who attend meetings regularly report better grades.
Scouts have a significant difference from non-Scouts in: health & recreation, connection to others, service & leadership, environmental stewardship, goal orientation, planning & preparedness, and character.
Our partnership benefits schools by:
Providing Structured, Values-Based Enrichment:
Scouting activities support social-emotional learning and reinforce positive behavior expectations.
Providing Structured, Values-Based Enrichment:
Scouting activities support social-emotional learning and reinforce positive behavior expectations.
Enhancing Parent & Community Involvement:
Scouting fosters deeper parental engagement, strengthening school-family relationships.
Enhancing Parent & Community Involvement:
Scouting fosters deeper parental engagement, strengthening school-family relationships.
Offering Leadership & Service Opportunities:
Scouts engage in service projects directly benefiting schools, such as campus beautification, food drives, and tutoring initiatives.
Offering Leadership & Service Opportunities:
Scouts engage in service projects directly benefiting schools, such as campus beautification, food drives, and tutoring initiatives.
Expanding Extracurricular Options:
Schools can support Scouting as an extracurricular activity that enhances student engagement beyond the classroom.
Expanding Extracurricular Options:
Schools can support Scouting as an extracurricular activity that enhances student engagement beyond the classroom.
Discover how Scouting can enhance learning and leadership opportunities for your students!
Through Scouting programs, youth build character and lifelong strengths that set them apart.
To better understand these advantages, Scouting America partnered with The Harris Poll in 2026 to survey thousands of adults and study how Scouts compare to people who have not participated in Scouting.
Character & Values
Scouts live by strong personal values. They are more likely to be trustworthy, helpful, and willing to do the right thing.
95%
Step in to stop bullying vs 89% Non-Scouts
92%
Call out harmful behavior vs 77% Non-Scouts
89%
Speak up for what they believe vs 63% Non-Scouts
91%
Say it is essential to always do right vs 85% Non-Scouts
Leadership
Scouting teaches young people to step up and speak out. As adults, youth who participated in Scouting are far more likely to lead at work and in their communities.
63%
Leaders at workvs 31% Non-Scouts(More than 2x as likely to be the boss)
36%
Leaders in the communityvs 11% Non-Scouts (More than 3x as likely to lead locally)
Well-Being & Outlook On Life
Many people today feel anxious or lonely. Scouts feel happier and more hopeful than peers who were never Scouts.
95%
Of Youth Involved in Scouting Are Happier With Who They Are Today vs. 82% of Non-Scouts
59%
Of Scouts Are Optimistic About the Future vs 48% Non-Scouts.
By working together, schools and Scouting can create more opportunities for students to thrive, reach their full potential, and become Prepared. For Life. The partnership is easy, and the benefits are immeasurable.
Together, we can equip young people with the character, leadership, and life skills they need to succeed.
Leadership is built through experience. Neil Murray shares how his journey in Scouting and a meaningful connection with a young Scout with special needs set him on the path to becoming a middle school Special Education teacher.
Now a father of two Scouts himself – a son and a daughter – Neil shows how investing in young people beyond the classroom helps them grow in confidence, responsibility, teamwork, and integrity, and proves that leadership development is accessible to everyone.
