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
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.
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.