Instructional 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 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 work week, 100% in-classroom time with kindergarten through second-grade students
You've invested years building mastery in structured literacy. Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction. You can identify a student's miscue and pinpoint precisely which phonemic skill needs attention. You can construct a phonics lesson from scratch without a scripted program. That's the baseline. It's not what sets you apart.
What sets you apart is that six-year-olds get excited when you enter the room. At Alpha, this position is a Guide first: a dynamic, magnetic presence children are eager to learn from. Your structured-literacy credentials open the door; your capacity to captivate a K-2 classroom for a 20-minute workshop is what secures the hire. If "dynamic, magnetic presence" doesn't resonate with you, this role isn't the right fit.
Alpha has dismantled conventional instruction. Students work through academic content independently on AI-adaptive applications — no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing calendars. Your position is the one area where a human expert cannot be replaced. You create small-group reading workshops using live student performance data, and you facilitate motivation sessions that push 100% of your students to reach their weekly app targets through Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).
Your initial months focus on winning over the room. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" surveys (90%+ target) measure this directly. As you demonstrate success, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance data to refine subsequent instruction, communicating fluency improvements and decoding progress to parents, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading methodology develops alongside adaptive tools. As Alpha opens new campuses, what you create becomes the blueprint for reading instruction across the country.
Before hiring, you'll record a brief video sharing an engaging story for young children, and you'll spend a full day on campus interacting directly with K-2 students. Low energy with kids is disqualifying, 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 live student data
- Facilitating daily motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students achieve 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 progress and refine instruction for subsequent sessions
- Analyzing AI-generated performance data from Alpha's adaptive learning applications to differentiate instruction dynamically, not solely during pre-planning
- Serving as the approachable, energetic adult your K-2 students are excited to see every 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 children daily
- Managing a traditional classroom schedule — subject-by-subject lectures, homework review, test preparation; your scheduled time consists of workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small groups instead
- Grading homework or issuing report cards; student progress is documented in app data and your running records
Key responsibilities
Provide structured-literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in 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 discipline, plus 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
- Proven ability to create your own reading lessons and clearly explain what you teach and how, without depending on a published program
- Availability to work in person full-time 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)
- Willingness to work with all K-2 students (not only struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning tools into daily instruction
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. or Puerto Rico without visa sponsorship
- Bilingual English/Spanish proficiency required for the Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
Nice to have
- Practical experience with AI-powered or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for instructional planning or student data interpretation
- Documented record of measurable reading outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy improvement, decoding level advancement) you can cite with specific numbers
- Experience in non-traditional or innovative school environments (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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