This book written to help every educator; Teacher, school staff, school leader and parent 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 , feeling of competence, interest in task, recognition ,autonomy, challenging task, sense of purpose, and satisfaction to improve the academic performance of the at-risk students. It provides the insight of students' learning method 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, the ability to help and support students to be successful. Finally, this book reveals the findings of many researchers, educational practitioners and the author's finding of his research of 3 model California continuation schools on the success of at-risk students performance through the promotion of intrinsic motivation.