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 paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
- Full-time on-site placement 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)
- 40-hour work week, 100% classroom-based with K-2 students
You have spent years building 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 gap to address. You construct phonics lessons from scratch, without a scripted program. That's baseline. It's not your differentiator.
Your differentiator is that six-year-olds respond with excitement when you enter the room. At Alpha, this position is a Guide first: a dynamic, energetic presence children are eager to work with. Your structured-literacy background opens the door; your capacity to engage a K-2 classroom for a 20-minute workshop is what secures the hire. If "dynamic, energetic presence" does not characterize you, this position is not a fit.
Alpha has reimagined traditional instruction. Students progress through academic coursework independently using AI-adaptive apps — no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing calendars. Your position represents the one area where human expertise is irreplaceable. You create small-group reading workshops based on real-time student performance data, and you facilitate motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students reach their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).
Your initial months focus on earning the room. Workshops must be engaging, differentiated, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" survey results (target 90%+) provide direct measurement. As you establish this, your scope expands: analyzing AI-generated performance data to modify upcoming instruction, communicating fluency gains and decoding progress to parents, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading methodology evolves with the adaptive tools. As Alpha opens new campuses, your work establishes the blueprint for reading instruction nationwide.
Prior to hiring, you will record a brief video presenting an engaging story for young children, and you will spend a full day on campus working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children will not pass, 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 equivalent), informed by actual student data
- Facilitating daily motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students meet their weekly adaptive-app targets, leveraging Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
- Conducting and evaluating running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to monitor growth and modify upcoming instruction
- Analyzing AI-generated performance data from Alpha's adaptive learning apps to differentiate instruction in the moment, not only during advance planning
- Serving as the engaging, energetic adult 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 your own lessons based on student data
- Delivering lectures to a full classroom; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups and students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps
- Serving as a reading consultant, coach to other educators, or district-level specialist; you are in the classroom with students every day
- Managing a traditional classroom block — subject-by-subject lectures, homework review, test preparation; your scheduled blocks consist of workshops, motivation sessions, and data-driven small groups instead
- Evaluating homework or report cards; student progress is captured in app data and your running records
Key responsibilities
Provide structured-literacy instruction that measurably accelerates K-2 reading outcomes 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 subject, plus 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical setting, using systematic phonics or structured literacy
- Proven capacity to design your own reading lessons and explain what you teach and how, without depending on a published program
- Willingness to work in person 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 work with all K-2 students (not only struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning tools into daily instruction
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Direct experience with AI-powered or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for planning or student data analysis
- Documented record of measurable reading outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy improvement, decoding level advancement) you can articulate with numbers
- Experience in non-traditional or innovative school models (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
- Experience performing, coaching youth sports, or otherwise engaging a K-2 audience outside the reading classroom
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