Disrupting Class Intro and Chapter 1 - Yes, I am behind!!!

While reading the introduction and chapter 1 of the book, I found the section on motivation to be very relevant to the group of students I have this year in my classes. So many of them come in each day with the attitude that nothing I am trying to teach them has any relevance to their lives. I make the lessons as intrinsically motivating as possible, yet I still have students who REFUSE to do any work! We truly need to find creative ways as educators to help our students become extrinsically motivated. Helping them to see that education will provide them access to all the good things life has to offer is difficult when so many of our students are living in poverty. To them, it probably does not seem that education has served their parents well, therefore they do not see the value in it. One student came to me after the first report cards came out and said, "Guess what? My dad told me I did a good job!" She found her extrinsic motivation in the little bit of praise she got for a job well done. I wish that the rest of my students would follow suit, any ideas?