Description
- $100,000/year W2 salary paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
- On-site position at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
You are not a teacher. You are a motivator.
The most caring thing you can do for a six-year-old who achieved 99% of their goal is to refuse to call it complete. If that expectation makes you uneasy, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's potential, read on.
At Alpha, K-3 students complete academic work through AI-powered applications in two hours daily. As a Guide, you lead one cohort band—either K-1 (Kindergarten–1st) or 2-3 (2nd–3rd)—and adjust your approach, pacing, and workshop content to fit that band. No traditional lectures. No worksheets. Half your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and feedback skills. These workshops serve as frameworks, not rigid scripts—the most effective Guides customize them for their cohort and create new ones when gaps emerge. The remaining time, you work with students individually or in small groups, analyze Coachbot data, and coach each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and play are not supplementary; they are essential tools for maintaining attention long enough to teach effectively. Warmth builds the trust that gives you permission to challenge. Challenge demonstrates your confidence in their ability to succeed.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report they love you. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the job is incomplete. In your first year you'll master the operating model; as you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct work with students.
If you prefer traditional teaching methods, expect a fully developed curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as conflicting, this position isn't right for you. If you've excelled as an early-elementary teacher who loved circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, a children's theater performer, or anyone who can command a room of kindergarteners through voice, play, and pure energy, the final step before an offer is a shadow day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that's what excites you most, submit your application today.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for cohorts of 10-15 K-3 students covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other enduring skills
- Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that keep students on track for weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's reward systems (school currency, leaderboards), and the personal connection you've established with each child
- Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and working with students who don't pass until mastery is achieved
- Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, stories, movement, and playfulness, while maintaining real, quantifiable expectations for second and third graders
- Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at drop-off AND the adult who won't allow them to settle for less than their best
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lectures from the front of the room; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you
- Creating curriculum from the ground up; Alpha supplies the framework and you execute it
- Passively monitoring kids at computers; motivation in this role is hands-on, personalized, and continuous
- Reducing a weekly target so a child can reach it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
- Grading homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest don't exist in this model
Key responsibilities
Ensure every student in your K-3 cohort completes their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting they loved you.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance provided)
- Bachelor's degree in any subject
- At least 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 9 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
- A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a young child toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
- Able to participate in a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
- Willingness to allow AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
- Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Background in youth sports coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating young children toward defined goals
- Personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to demanding standards is a consistent pattern, not an adopted stance
- Natural performer's presence with young children — the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through voice, playfulness, and physical energy
- Demonstrated success transforming shy or reluctant young children into confident, engaged participants
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