Reading Tutor $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- On-site position at an Alpha School campus: Phoenix, Arizona; Tampa, Florida; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Austin, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), Texas; Plano, Texas; Park City (Salt Lake City), Utah
- $100,000 annual salary, full-time, paid weekly
- Day-one medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Relocation assistance available
You have dedicated years to mastering structured literacy. You can identify a student's error and pinpoint the exact phonemic skill requiring attention. Yet you have also observed the system underutilize that expertise: classrooms exceeding 25 students, inflexible pacing calendars, standardized curricula that disregard what your assessment records reveal. If you have ever considered "I could accelerate these students' progress significantly if I could teach according to what the data indicates," continue reading.
Alpha School's 2-Hour Learning model integrates AI-adaptive technology with skilled human teaching. Students advance through academic content independently using personalized applications. There are no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing guides. Your function is the one area where human expertise cannot be replaced: small-group reading workshops where you create and implement structured literacy instruction customized to each student's phonics and decoding level. You will utilize real-time AI-generated performance analytics to prepare each session, modify instruction dynamically, and track outcomes through fluency gains, accuracy improvements, and decoding progression.
In addition to reading workshops, you will facilitate motivation sessions that maintain K-2 student engagement with their learning objectives. You will serve as their coach, their advocate, the individual who knows their name, their interests, and precisely where they stand in their reading development. The goal: 100% of students achieve their weekly targets, and 90%+ rate their Guide as someone they enjoy working with. This is not about content coverage; it is about measurable results observable each week. As Alpha grows to additional campuses, the systems you establish here will define reading instruction nationwide.
If you believe structured literacy is most effective when personalized, data-informed, and taught by someone who authentically energizes a room of six-year-olds, this is where that conviction becomes your work. Apply today.
What you will be doing
- Creating and facilitating small-group reading workshops centered on systematic phonics, decoding, and writing for K-2 students
- Conducting and evaluating running records to determine each student's reading level and guide targeted instruction
- Analyzing AI-generated student performance data to modify instruction in real time, not only during planning periods
- Facilitating motivation sessions that support students in progressing through their learning apps and achieving 100% of weekly goals
- Customizing instruction across targeted reading groups according to individual learning styles and needs
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a published reading program or scripted curriculum (you create your own lessons using student data)
- Delivering lectures to a full classroom (all teaching occurs in small, targeted groups)
- Teaching academic subjects (students advance through math, science, and other coursework independently using adaptive apps)
- Operating within a traditional classroom schedule with bells, transitions, and standardized pacing guides
- Grading homework or report cards (student advancement is monitored through app data and running records)
Key responsibilities
Provide structured literacy instruction that demonstrably accelerates K-2 reading outcomes in phonics, fluency, and decoding.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any subject
- Master's in reading instruction OR structured literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, LETRS, Neuhaus, UFLI, or similar)
- 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical setting using systematic phonics or structured literacy, within the last 5 years
- Experience designing original reading lessons (not solely relying on a published program)
- Willingness to use AI and adaptive learning tools for instructional planning and student data analysis
- Willingness to work in-person at an Alpha School campus in one of the listed locations
- Willingness to work with all K-2 students, not only struggling readers
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Experience using AI or adaptive learning tools (e.g., Lexia, i-Ready, Amira) for instructional planning or student data analysis
- Track record of measuring and articulating specific reading outcomes from interventions (e.g., fluency gains in WCPM, decoding level advancement)
- Experience working in non-traditional or innovative school models (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
- Bilingual in English and Spanish
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