Reading Interventionist $100,000 USD/year
Description
- $100,000 annual salary paid weekly, plus health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
- Full-time on-site position 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)
- 40-hour workweek, 100% classroom-based with K-2 learners
You have invested years in mastering structured literacy. Whether through Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction, you can identify a student's miscue and immediately pinpoint the phonemic gap behind it. You can construct a phonics lesson without relying on a scripted program. That's baseline. It's not what sets you apart.
What sets you apart is that six-year-olds respond to you with genuine excitement. At Alpha, this position demands a Guide first: a dynamic, engaging presence that students genuinely want to work with. Your structured-literacy credentials open the door; your capacity to captivate a K-2 classroom during a 20-minute workshop is what secures the offer. If "dynamic, engaging presence" doesn't reflect who you are, this role won't fit.
Alpha has redesigned traditional teaching. Students progress through academic content independently via AI-adaptive applications — no lectures, no textbooks, no district pacing calendars. Your role represents the one area where human expertise cannot be replaced. You create small-group reading workshops driven by live student performance metrics, and you facilitate motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of your students achieve their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).
Your initial months focus on building credibility with the room. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" surveys (target 90%+) provide direct measurement. As you establish this foundation, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance data to refine upcoming instruction, communicating fluency improvements and decoding progress to parents, and contributing to how Alpha's K-2 reading strategy evolves in tandem with adaptive technology. As Alpha grows into new locations, the systems you develop become the blueprint for reading instruction across the network.
Before we extend an offer, you will submit a short 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 disqualify you, 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 methods), informed by live student performance data
- Conducting daily motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of students meet their weekly adaptive-app targets, applying 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 metrics from Alpha's adaptive learning platforms to differentiate instruction dynamically, not only during planning phases
- Serving as the approachable, energetic adult your K-2 students are excited to see each day
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a packaged reading curriculum, scripted lesson plan, or district pacing calendar; you create lessons directly from student performance data
- Delivering whole-class lectures; all instruction occurs in targeted small groups while students complete academic subjects through adaptive applications
- Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach for other educators, or district-level specialist; your work is classroom-based with students daily
- Managing a traditional classroom schedule — subject-by-subject lectures, homework grading, test preparation; instead, your time is allocated to workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small groups
- Grading homework or issuing report cards; student advancement is tracked through app analytics and your running records
Key responsibilities
Provide structured-literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading outcomes, specifically in 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, combined with 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment, employing systematic phonics or structured literacy
- Proven capacity to independently design reading lessons and clearly articulate your instructional content and methods, without depending on a published program
- Availability to work full-time in person 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 to incorporating AI and adaptive-learning technologies into everyday instruction
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
- Bilingual English/Spanish proficiency required for the Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
Nice to have
- Direct 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 with specific metrics (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy improvements, decoding level advancements) you can reference quantitatively
- Experience in non-traditional or innovative educational settings (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid models)
- Experience in performance, youth sports coaching, or otherwise engaging K-2 audiences beyond the reading classroom
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