Literacy Specialist $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- $100,000 annual salary paid weekly, including health, dental, and vision coverage from day one
- On-site position at a single Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Fort Worth (Keller), Dallas, Plano, or The Woodlands, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
- 40-hour workweek, 100% classroom-based with K-2 students
You've invested years building deep expertise in structured literacy—Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction. You recognize a student's miscue and immediately identify the phonemic weakness to address. You can construct a phonics lesson without a scripted curriculum. That's baseline. It's not what sets you apart.
What sets you apart is that six-year-olds get excited when you enter the room. At Alpha, this position is first and foremost a Guide: a captivating, high-energy presence children are eager to work with. Your structured-literacy credentials open the door; your capacity to engage a K-2 classroom for a 20-minute workshop is what earns you the offer. If "captivating, high-energy presence" doesn't reflect who you are, this isn't the right role.
Alpha has dismantled conventional instruction. Students advance through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications—no lectures, no textbooks, no mandated pacing. Your position represents the one area where human expertise cannot be replaced. You create small-group reading workshops informed by live student performance data, and you facilitate motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students reach their weekly app targets through Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).
Your initial months center on winning over the classroom. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" survey results (targeting 90%+) provide direct measurement. Once you establish that foundation, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance insights to refine upcoming instruction, communicating fluency improvements and decoding progress to parents, and helping shape how Alpha's K-2 reading model develops in tandem with adaptive technology. As Alpha opens new campuses, your work becomes the blueprint for reading instruction across the network.
Before we extend an offer, you'll submit a brief video sharing an engaging story for young children, and you'll complete a full day on campus interacting directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children disqualifies candidates regardless of credential strength. That's intentional. Apply today.
What you will be doing
- Creating and facilitating small-group K-2 reading workshops rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or comparable), informed by live student data
- Facilitating daily motivation sessions that ensure 100% of students meet their weekly adaptive-app targets, leveraging Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
- Conducting and interpreting running records, fluency assessments, and decoding evaluations to monitor progress and refine instruction for subsequent sessions
- Analyzing AI-generated performance insights from Alpha's adaptive learning platforms to differentiate instruction dynamically, not only during advance planning
- Serving as the engaging, energetic adult presence your K-2 students are excited to see each day
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing calendar; you create lessons directly from student data
- Delivering whole-class lectures; all teaching occurs in small, targeted groups while students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps
- Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach, or district-level specialist; you work in the classroom with children daily
- Managing a conventional classroom schedule—subject-by-subject lectures, homework reviews, test preparation; your time is allocated to workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small groups
- Assessing homework or preparing report cards; student achievement is tracked through app data and your running records
Key responsibilities
Provide structured-literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading performance across phonics, fluency, and decoding.
Candidate requirements
- Structured-literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent) OR a Master's degree in reading instruction
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline, plus 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment, applying systematic phonics or structured literacy
- Proven ability to independently design reading lessons and clearly explain your instructional choices and methods, without dependence on a published program
- Willingness to work on-site full-time at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Fort Worth (Keller), Dallas, Plano, or The Woodlands, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
- Willingness to instruct all K-2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning platforms into everyday instruction
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Practical experience with AI-powered or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for instructional planning or student data interpretation
- Documented reading outcomes (fluency growth in WCPM, accuracy gains, decoding level progression) that you can quantify
- Experience in non-traditional or innovative educational settings (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
- Experience in performance, coaching youth sports, or otherwise engaging a K-2 audience beyond the reading classroom
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