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This book is written to help every educator: Teacher, school staff, school leader, parent, behavioral health professional and adolescent probation professional to identify the variables of intrinsic motivation and be able to collaborate with at-risk students to promote intrinsic motivation. This book describes the variables of intrinsic motivation and demonstrates the application of these variables such as self-determination, curiosity, feelings of competence, interest in task, recognition, autonomy, challenging tasks, sense of purpose, and satisfaction. These are factors designed to improve the academic performance of the at-risk students. It provides the insight of students’ learning methods, and provides educators with tools and techniques on how to encourage at-risk students to learn and be academically successful. This book provides parents and educators with information about reasons why students are at-risk, and the ability to support and enable students to be successful. Finally, this book reveals the findings of many researchers, educational practitioners and the findings related to the author’s research of three model California continuation schools on the success of at-risk students’ performance through the promotion of intrinsic motivation.