Reading Specialist $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- Onsite position at an Alpha School campus: Phoenix, Arizona; Tampa, Florida; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Austin, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), Texas; Plano, Texas; Park City (Salt Lake City), Utah
- $100,000 annual salary paid weekly
- Health, dental, and vision benefits begin immediately
- Relocation assistance available
You have dedicated years to becoming an expert in structured literacy. A single miscue from a student reveals precisely which phonemic skill requires attention. Yet the traditional system squanders this expertise: classrooms of 25 or more students, inflexible pacing calendars, standardized curricula that disregard what running records reveal. If you have ever considered, "These students could achieve twice the progress if instruction aligned with the data," this role is for you.
Alpha School's 2-Hour Learning framework integrates AI-adaptive technology with specialized human teaching. Academic content is completed by students working independently through personalized applications. Lectures, textbooks, and pacing guides do not exist. Your responsibility centers on the irreplaceable human contribution: small-group reading workshops where you create and deliver structured literacy lessons matched to each student's phonics and decoding proficiency. Real-time AI-generated performance analytics inform your session planning, enable mid-session adjustments, and track measurable outcomes in fluency rates, accuracy metrics, and decoding progression.
In addition to reading workshops, you will facilitate motivation sessions that sustain K-2 student engagement with learning objectives. You become their guide, their advocate, the adult who understands their identity, interests, and precise position in their reading development. The goal: every student achieves weekly targets, and over 90% describe their Guide as someone they value. Coverage is not the priority; measurable weekly results are. As Alpha grows into additional campuses, the systems you establish will define reading instruction across the organization.
If you are committed to the principle that structured literacy achieves optimal results when personalized, informed by data, and taught by someone who authentically energizes a group of young learners, this position reflects that commitment. Submit your application now.
What you will be doing
- Creating and facilitating small-group reading workshops centered on systematic phonics, decoding, and writing for students in kindergarten through second grade
- Conducting and evaluating running records to determine each student's reading proficiency and inform targeted lesson planning
- Analyzing AI-generated student data to modify instruction dynamically during sessions, not only in advance preparation
- Leading motivation sessions that support students in progressing through learning applications and meeting 100% of weekly objectives
- Tailoring instruction within targeted reading groups according to individual learning preferences and requirements
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a commercial reading curriculum or scripted lesson plans (instruction is designed by you using student data)
- Delivering whole-class lectures (all teaching occurs within small, targeted groups)
- Instructing academic subjects such as math or science (students access these independently through adaptive applications)
- Operating within a conventional classroom structure with scheduled transitions, bells, and uniform pacing requirements
- Evaluating homework assignments or producing report cards (progress monitoring relies on application data and running records)
Key responsibilities
Provide structured literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading performance across phonics, fluency, and decoding domains.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline
- Master's degree in reading instruction OR structured literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, LETRS, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent)
- Minimum 2 years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment using systematic phonics or structured literacy, completed within the past 5 years
- Demonstrated experience creating original reading lessons (not exclusively using published programs)
- Openness to utilizing AI and adaptive learning technologies for lesson planning and student performance analysis
- Availability to work onsite at an Alpha School campus in one of the specified locations
- Commitment to instructing all K-2 students, not limited to struggling readers
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Background with AI or adaptive learning platforms (e.g., Lexia, i-Ready, Amira) for lesson planning or data interpretation
- Documented history of quantifying and communicating specific reading gains from interventions (e.g., words correct per minute fluency increases, decoding level progression)
- Professional experience in non-traditional or innovative educational environments (charter schools, micro-schools, Montessori, hybrid models)
- Fluency in both English and Spanish
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