Reading Specialist $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- On-site 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/year full-time salary, paid weekly
- Day-one health, dental, and vision benefits
- Relocation support provided
You have spent years developing expertise in structured literacy. A single miscue tells you precisely which phonemic weakness to address. Yet the system has consistently underutilized that skill: classrooms with 25+ students, inflexible pacing guides, standardized curricula that disregard what your running records reveal. If you have ever thought "I could double this growth if I could just teach according to the data," continue reading.
Alpha School's 2-Hour Learning model integrates AI-adaptive software with expert human instruction. Students progress through academic coursework independently using personalized apps. There are no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing guides. Your role focuses on the area where human expertise is irreplaceable: small-group reading workshops where you design and implement structured literacy instruction matched to each student's phonics and decoding level. You will use real-time AI-generated performance data to plan every session, adapt in the moment, and track outcomes through fluency gains, accuracy improvements, and decoding advancement.
In addition to reading workshops, you will facilitate motivation sessions that maintain K-2 student engagement with their learning goals. You will serve as their coach, their advocate, the person who knows their name, their interests, and precisely where they are in their reading development. The objective: 100% of students achieve their weekly goals, and 90%+ rate their Guide as someone they love working with. This is not about curriculum coverage; it is about measurable results you can observe every single week. As Alpha expands to new campuses, the instruction you develop here becomes the template for reading instruction nationwide.
If you believe structured literacy is most effective when personalized, data-driven, and delivered by someone who genuinely engages a room full of six-year-olds, this is where that belief becomes your role. Apply today.
What you will be doing
- Leading and designing small-group reading workshops centered on systematic phonics, decoding, and writing for K-2 students
- Conducting and interpreting running records to evaluate each student's reading level and inform targeted instruction
- Using AI-generated student performance data to modify instruction in real time, not only during pre-planning
- Facilitating motivation sessions that support students in advancing through their learning apps and achieving 100% of weekly goals
- Adjusting instruction across focused reading groups according to individual learning styles and needs
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a published reading program or scripted curriculum (you create your own lessons using student data)
- Delivering lectures to a full classroom (all instruction occurs in small, focused groups)
- Teaching academic subjects (students complete math, science, and other coursework independently through adaptive apps)
- Operating within a traditional classroom schedule with bells, transitions, and standardized pacing guides
- Grading homework or report cards (student progress is monitored through app data and running records)
Key responsibilities
Provide structured literacy instruction that measurably accelerates K-2 reading outcomes in phonics, fluency, and decoding.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any subject
- Master's in reading instruction OR structured literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, LETRS, Neuhaus, UFLI, or similar)
- 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical setting using systematic phonics or structured literacy, within the last 5 years
- Experience creating original reading lessons (not solely relying on a published program)
- Willingness to use AI and adaptive learning tools for instructional planning and student data analysis
- Willingness to work in-person at an Alpha School campus in one of the listed locations
- Willingness to work with all K-2 students, not only struggling readers
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Experience with AI or adaptive learning tools (e.g., Lexia, i-Ready, Amira) for instructional planning or student data analysis
- Documented ability to measure and communicate specific reading outcomes from interventions (e.g., fluency gains in WCPM, decoding level advancement)
- Experience in non-traditional or innovative school models (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
- Bilingual in English and Spanish
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