Reading Tutor $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; Fort Worth (Keller), Dallas, Plano, or The Woodlands, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
- 40-hour workweek, 100% in-classroom instruction with K-2 students
You have invested years building expertise in structured literacy. Whether Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction, you can identify a student's miscue and immediately pinpoint the phonemic weakness to address. You can build a phonics lesson from scratch without a scripted curriculum. That level of competence is expected. It is not what sets you apart.
What sets you apart is that six-year-olds are excited when you enter the room. At Alpha, this position is a Guide role first: a magnetic, high-energy presence students enjoy learning with. Your structured-literacy credentials open the door; your ability to captivate a K-2 classroom for a 20-minute workshop is what secures the position. If "magnetic, high-energy presence" does not describe you, this role is not the right fit.
Alpha has dismantled conventional instruction. Students work through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications—no lectures, no textbooks, no district pacing calendars. Your role represents the one area where a human expert cannot be replaced. You create small-group reading workshops based on live student performance data, and you facilitate motivation sessions that ensure 100% of students meet their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).
Your initial months focus on earning student trust and engagement. Workshops must be enjoyable, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" survey results (target 90%+) provide direct measurement. Once you establish credibility, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance data to refine subsequent instruction, communicating fluency progress and decoding growth to parents, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading methodology develops alongside adaptive technology. As Alpha opens new campuses, your work becomes the blueprint for reading instruction across the network.
Before an offer is extended, you will submit a short video delivering an engaging story for young children, and you will complete a full day on campus interacting directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children will disqualify you, 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 approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or comparable), informed by live student data
- Facilitating daily motivation sessions that ensure 100% of students achieve their weekly adaptive-app targets, leveraging Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
- Conducting and evaluating running records, fluency assessments, and decoding measures to monitor progress and refine subsequent instruction
- Analyzing AI-generated performance data from Alpha's adaptive learning platforms to differentiate instruction in the moment, not only during planning
- Serving as the engaging, energetic adult your K-2 students are excited to see daily
What you will NOT be doing
- Using 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 while students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps
- Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach, or district-level specialist; you are in the classroom with students every day
- Managing a traditional classroom schedule—subject-by-subject lectures, homework correction, test preparation; your blocks consist of workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small groups
- Assigning grades on homework or report cards; student advancement is tracked through 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, using 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
- Willingness to work on-site 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 instruct all K-2 students (not only struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning platforms into daily instruction
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring visa sponsorship
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 increases, decoding level progression) you can quantify
- Experience in non-traditional or innovative educational models (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
- Experience performing, coaching youth sports, or otherwise engaging a K-2 audience beyond the reading classroom
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