This list can effectively motivate urban public school students to succeed in school and life. To utilize these strategies, the school needs to work together with the community and organize a team whose purpose will motivate students to be successful.

These strategies can be utilized at all levels, and most of them will take place outside of the classroom. Students will be motivated by being exposed to real-world activities, such as people, events, and extracurricular activities, which will increase their knowledge, vocabulary, and desire to learn.

The members of this local team are essential to the overall success of this list. These members should have a high interest in helping students to succeed. When organizing the group, consideration should be given to the following entities: local church members, local business members, professionals from law, medicine, accounting, technology, parents, media, community activists, and college employees. In addition, the school should have members, including teachers, counselors, parents, and administration.

Listed below are some of the strategies that could be utilized.

• The school should organize several days throughout each month to bring professionals into the building to read to the elementary-age students and talk about their careers for the high school students. Professionals from all walks of life should be included.

• The schools should take students on monthly field trips aligned with what they are studying in the classroom. For example, if they are learning about animals, the students could go to the zoo and see the animals and better understand their school lessons.

• Expose students to real-world activities that will help them gain knowledge while motivating them for school. Activities could include plays, museums, zoos, parks, art shows, amusement parks, fairs, farms, and apple orchards. The community and school can utilize hundreds of activities to expose students that will help them gain knowledge and increase their vocabulary.

• The school and community should work together to have students attend live performances such as concerts, ballet, or theatre. Exposure will help motivate students to succeed.

• The school and community should find an educational movie to take students to and develop a lesson as part of the movie. Students could discuss and write a summary of the film. Students could learn and become more knowledgeable about the issue.

• The school and community should develop how to be successful workshops for students to attend on Saturday. Students can be taught what it takes to succeed in school and life. The program can solicit successful professionals from the community to present at the workshops.

• The school should organize summer writing camps for students. These camps will polish students writing skills and allow them to improve their vocabulary.

• The school should organize a spelling bee contest for students and provide incentives. The competition should be highlighted as being essential for the school. Students will have a chance to improve their vocabulary.

• The school should organize a writing contest for the school and provide incentives. The school should place some of the writing pieces throughout to encourage students. Students will have a chance to improve their vocabulary.

• The school and the community should work together to place a small library in each classroom. The library should have a variety of books and magazines. Once completed, the school should require students to read for at least ten minutes every day in each classroom. This is an excellent way for students to develop the pleasure of reading.

• The school should organize a field trip for students to the local library and require them to sign up for a library card. The students should be allowed to take books out of the library. This is an excellent opportunity for students to be motivated to read.

• Have the local community highlight students performing well in schools, such as all A's on report cards, perfect attendance, honor roll, being accepted into College, earning scholarships and internships, and performing for dance, music, or sports programs. This can be a motivational activity for students.

• The school and community should organize a music program so elementary students can take music lessons after school. Students need overall exposure, which will lead to overall success, and it can be educational.

• The school and community should work together to offer a foreign language for their elementary-age students. These can be educational for students.

• The school and community should collect enough books to have libraries in school that students can utilize after school and on the weekends because most urban areas have few or no libraries in the community. This could be another way to encourage students to read.

• Have the churches work with the school to provide any wrap-around services they may need. If the students in the school need food, maybe the church can organize fundraisers and provide food for children. The church can offer mentoring services to students. The church can partner with the school and be another support service.

• The school should work with businesses to provide mentoring and tutoring services. The company could also adopt the school and develop programs specifically for that school. Depending on the business's resources will determine what activities can be planned.

• The school should work with local colleges to take students on field trips to the College to learn about college life. Students can learn about what colleges require to be accepted and the many departments they offer. They can also learn about college life from a student’s perspective. Local colleges can organize many activities with the school that will motivate students.

• Local colleges can adopt a school and provide support for the school from their Education Department. The Education Department can take a school and provide resources that will benefit its students.

• The school should organize a reading contest where students read five books a month and provide an incentive for students. This could be another motivational tool for students.

• The school and community should organize a black history program for the entire month of February. The program should plan activities for every day of the month. This is another motivational activity for students.

• The school and community should raise funds to purchase computers for a state-of-the-art computer lab. This lab could teach students how to code and program on the computer. This could motivate students to make a career choice.

• The community should purchase educational software that students can utilize after school and on Saturdays. The software will depend on the age of the students, but it will allow students to develop some skills that will transfer over to learning and be motivational.

• The school should provide additional after-school activities such as sports, dancing, and art. All students should also be allowed to learn how to swim. Sports participation is a great way to motivate students in school and life.

• The school and community should work together to take students on an out-of-town field trip. Students would be allowed to gain more knowledge and see real-world events. This could be very informative and motivational.

• The school should provide a reading list for students and the community. Reading lists could go to each home and in strategic places throughout the community. This is the way that the community can support the students by helping to purchase books and encouraging students to read books.

• The school should develop a positive message to present to the school each morning either on the pa system or in person. The school should choose different students to deliver messages each day. This is an excellent way to develop speaking skills and gain confidence.

• The school and the community could work together to organize a leadership program for students on Saturdays. Students would learn what skills are needed to become leaders. This would be motivational for students.

• Schools could organize a pen pal program where students write letters to someone in another country or the military. Students would be working on their writing skills while having the opportunity to interact with someone from a distance.

• The school and community could work together to organize parent workshops for parents to learn the formula for raising successful children. There are numerous strategies parents can utilize to assist their children with being successful in school and life. Parent Involvement is essential for student success.

• The school and community could work together to organize a health fair for the students and the community. This could help alleviate some of the roadblocks to learning students face because of health issues.

• The school and community could work together to grow a garden on the school grounds. Students would have an opportunity to learn more about how food is produced. This would be another opportunity for students to learn about an area they don't have experience in.

• The school should work with a business and take students to a corporate office so they can observe and find out what happens in corporate America. Students will gain knowledge about another area they have no experience in. It could be motivational for a career choice.

• The school should work with a business and take students to a factory to observe how skilled tradespeople work and make some products. This could be motivational and knowledgeable.

• The school should organize an exchange with a suburban school to learn more about different cultures and what is happening in the suburban school districts. Students will learn how to get along with people of other races and hopefully gain more knowledge.

• Students should be allowed to attend a summer camp. It would benefit the community to help parents sign students up for summer camps. Exposing students is another way to develop all-around students.

• The school and the local church could work with students on an activity that would involve teaching them how to give back. Something like feeding the homeless, children's coats, Christmas presents for the needy kids, picking up trash in the neighborhood, or cleaning up the school day.

• The school and community should work together to start a book club for the students. It could be organized by grade level. These activities could motivate students to want to read more.

• The school and community could organize a field trip where students go to a hands-on science museum which will allow students to learn about science, stem, and technology. This museum exposes students to the science field, which will increase their science knowledge.

• The school and the community should work together to plan a college tour for the colleges in the state. Students would be able to tour various colleges and learn more about what happens at these learning institutions and what it takes to attend them. The college tour is motivational for all students.

• The school and community should work together to organize a project-based plan that requires students to complete a project for the school year. This project could be a science project. This activity would need students to research and gain more knowledge about their project. Once again, they are exposed to something new that will help them in school and life.

• The school and community could work together and locate as many books as possible for the school and require students to read at least fifty books for the entire school year. This program would be a way to encourage students to develop a pleasure of reading. The more students read, the better readers they become. This activity will open up a whole new world for students because of the many books they will read.

• The school and community should work together, invite local authors to the classroom, and have them discuss their books. Students will be interested and motivated to meet real authors and learn about their life stories.

• The school and community should start a program to challenge students to find real problems in the community and have them work with other students as a team and develop solutions to problems. Students like to be challenged, and they will get the opportunity to work as a team.

• The school and community should work together and start a service-learning program for the school. Students will get the opportunity to combine a learning activity in class with a community service project. Students will get a chance to see the connection between the classroom and life.

• The school will develop a lesson that requires students to go out and interview someone in their family. Students will be given a question to ask, and they can ask some questions that they think of. This lesson could be interesting for students, and they will learn more about how to interact with people.

• The school and community should work together and start a robotic club. Students will build an actual robot. This will be an excellent learning club for students, and they will learn a lot about how to interact with people. Students will be excited to see what they can accomplish when they work together.

• The school and church can work together and start a religion club for an afterschool activity. Students can be taught a lot about morals, values, and how to have faith. Students will get the chance to grow and become better people.

• The school and the community should work together and bring the real world to the students by signing the school and students up for National Geographic publication and the app. Students will be able to read about and see on their app information about travel, environment, animals, science, and history & culture. This is a chance to expose children to real-world details.

• The school and community should work together and expose students to real-world information online. Students can see information about nature, explorations worldwide, space, and science by signing up for the Discovery Channel online. Students will gain invaluable information that will motivate them to succeed in school.

• The school and community should work together and bring the daily newspaper to the school at least once or twice a week. Students will have the opportunity to read and keep up with what is going on in today's world. Students can also write current event articles. This could be done in the classroom.