Early Childhood Educator $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- $100,000/year W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision benefits begin on 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)
Your role is not to teach. Your role is to motivate.
The kindest thing you can do for a six-year-old who reached 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that principle unsettles you, this role is not a fit. If it energizes you because maintaining high expectations is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's potential, continue reading.
At Alpha, students in grades K-3 complete their academic learning through AI-powered applications in two hours each day. As a Guide, you lead a single cohort band — either K-1 (Kindergarten–1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd–3rd grade) — and adjust your approach, tempo, and workshop design to fit that developmental band. There are no lectures. No worksheets. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, attention management, and feedback exchange. These workshops serve as frameworks, not rigid scripts — high performers in this role customize them for their cohort and create new ones when gaps appear. The remaining half of your day involves sitting with students individually or in small clusters, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and playfulness are not optional additions; they are the mechanisms through which you sustain attention long enough to teach anything meaningful. Warmth creates the foundation for high expectations. High expectations communicate your confidence in their capacity.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three metrics is falling short of the role. In your first year, you internalize the playbook; as you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, you become eligible for Lead Guide, where you mentor newer team members while continuing direct work with students.
If you are drawn to traditional classroom teaching, prefer ready-made curriculum, or view warmth and rigor as opposing forces, this position will not suit you. If you have been an early-elementary teacher who excelled during 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 relentless energy, the final step before an offer is a shadow day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for groups of 10-15 K-3 students covering public speaking, attention management, feedback exchange, and other enduring competencies
- Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group coaching sessions that maintain student progress toward weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual relationship you've developed with each child
- Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and supporting students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
- Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, narratives, physical activity, and humor, while simultaneously holding second and third graders accountable to concrete, measurable outcomes
- Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at arrival AND the adult who will not permit them to underperform
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 independently; Alpha supplies the framework and you animate it
- Passively monitoring children at computers; motivation in this environment is active, personal, and sustained
- Adjusting a weekly target downward so a child can reach it; when a student is struggling, the solution is to support the student, not to lower the bar
- Grading assignments, preparing for standardized tests, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
Key responsibilities
Guarantee that every student in your K-3 cohort completes their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that 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 support 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 coaching a young child toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
- Able to attend a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
- Willingness to allow AI to manage instructional delivery 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 objectives
- Personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others accountable to rigorous standards is a natural pattern, not an adopted stance
- Innate performer's presence with young children — the capacity to captivate a room of kindergarteners through vocal expression, playfulness, and physical energy
- Demonstrated success transforming hesitant or reluctant young children into confident, engaged contributors
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