Reading Coach $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- $100,000 annual salary, disbursed weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
- Full-time on-site role at a single Alpha campus location: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Fort Worth, Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), or Plano, TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Dorado, Puerto Rico (relocation assistance available)
- 40-hour work week, entirely classroom-based with kindergarten through second-grade students
You have dedicated years to becoming an expert in structured literacy. Whether through Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction, you can identify a student's phonemic gap from a single miscue and design a phonics lesson without any scripted curriculum. That expertise is the baseline. It is not what sets you apart.
What sets you apart is that young children are excited to see you. At Alpha, this position requires you to be a Guide first: an engaging, dynamic presence that students genuinely enjoy learning with. Your structured-literacy credentials open the door; your capacity to captivate a K-2 classroom during a 20-minute workshop is what earns you the role. If "engaging, dynamic presence" does not describe you, this position is not the right fit.
Alpha has fundamentally reimagined traditional schooling. Students progress through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications—no traditional lectures, textbooks, or standardized pacing calendars. Your position represents the one area where human expertise cannot be replaced. You create targeted small-group reading workshops using live student performance data, and you facilitate motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of your students reach their weekly app targets through Alpha's motivational framework (school currency systems, leaderboards, developmentally appropriate gamification).
Your initial months focus on building rapport and credibility. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" survey results (target 90%+) provide direct feedback on your impact. Once you establish that foundation, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance insights to refine subsequent instructional sessions, communicating fluency progress and decoding milestones to families, and contributing to the evolution of Alpha's K-2 reading methodology alongside adaptive technology. As Alpha opens additional campuses, your approach becomes the blueprint for reading instruction across the network.
Prior to hiring, you will submit a brief video recording of yourself sharing an engaging story for young children, and you will complete a full-day campus visit working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children will disqualify candidates regardless of credential strength. This is intentional. Apply today.
What you will be doing
- Creating and facilitating small-group K-2 reading workshops rooted in structured-literacy principles (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or comparable), informed by live student performance data
- Facilitating daily motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of your students meet their weekly adaptive-app targets, leveraging Alpha's motivational framework (school currency systems, leaderboards, developmentally appropriate gamification)
- Conducting and evaluating running records, fluency assessments, and decoding diagnostics 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 solely during advance planning
- Serving as the approachable, high-energy adult presence your K-2 students anticipate seeing each day
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a commercially published reading curriculum, scripted instructional program, or district-mandated pacing calendar; you build your own lessons from student performance data
- Delivering whole-class lectures; all direct instruction occurs in small, targeted groups while students engage with academic content through adaptive applications
- Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach for other educators, or district-level literacy specialist; you work directly with students in the classroom daily
- Managing a traditional classroom schedule—subject-by-subject lectures, homework correction, test preparation; your time is allocated to workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small-group instruction
- Grading assignments or completing report cards; student progress is tracked through app analytics and your assessment records
Key responsibilities
Provide structured-literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading performance across phonics, fluency, and decoding domains.
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, combined with 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
- Proven capacity to independently design reading lessons and clearly articulate your instructional content and methods without dependence on a published program
- Commitment to full-time in-person work at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Fort Worth, Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), or Plano, TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Dorado, Puerto Rico (relocation assistance available)
- Openness to working with all K-2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and incorporating AI and adaptive-learning technologies into daily instruction
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
- Bilingual fluency in English and Spanish required for the Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
Nice to have
- Direct experience using AI-powered or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for instructional planning or student data interpretation
- Documented history of measurable reading gains (fluency improvement in WCPM, accuracy increases, decoding level progression) you can quantify with specific figures
- Experience in non-traditional or innovative educational settings (charter schools, micro-schools, Montessori, hybrid models)
- Experience in performance, youth sports coaching, or other contexts requiring engagement of a K-2 audience beyond traditional reading instruction
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