Early Childhood Educator $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks
Description
Children rarely retain every lesson presented to them. They invariably remember the adult who had faith in their potential. That is the essence of this position.
At Alpha, academic work is completed in only two hours each day through the use of adaptive learning technology. This structure allows Guides to concentrate on the work that transforms lives: cultivating confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to embrace difficult challenges. Your day will not be spent delivering lessons from the front of a room. Instead, you will coach students through obstacles, recognize their achievements, and demonstrate what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic belief.
You will oversee one K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half of your time is dedicated to facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback. The remaining half involves coaching students both individually and in small groups, leveraging learning analytics to ensure every child progresses toward ambitious weekly targets. Every moment counts. Students should emerge from your workshops more skilled than when they entered and leave your coaching sessions convinced they can accomplish more than they previously imagined.
This position is not suited for someone seeking to deliver a prescribed curriculum or manage a traditional classroom. It is designed for someone who loves inspiring young children, excels with measurable results, and believes the right coach can alter a child's path. If you have motivated kids as a teacher, coach, camp counselor, youth leader, or performer, a distinctly different kind of classroom awaits you here.
This is a full-time, on-site position at one of Alpha's campuses. We recruit nationally, so job boards may list this opportunity in nearby cities without a campus.
Current openings for this salary tier are available in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Georgetown, Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, and Houston, TX; and Park City (Salt Lake City area), UT.
If you're interested in another Alpha campus, apply anyway and tell us your preferred location—we'll consider you for the appropriate opening.
What you will be doing
- Facilitate dynamic life-skills workshops that enable K-3 students to develop communication, focus, feedback, and other enduring skills through active engagement rather than passive instruction.
- Provide one-on-one and small group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child remains on track for ambitious weekly learning targets.
- Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2Pass framework, coaching students until they exhibit genuine understanding—not merely attendance.
- Tailor your coaching approach to the developmental stage of your cohort, whether that involves songs, physical activity, and narrative for younger learners or greater autonomy and responsibility for older students.
- Cultivate the type of relationships where students feel encouraged enough to push beyond their perceived limits.
What you will NOT be doing
- Presenting academic lessons from a whiteboard. Students complete academics using adaptive software.
- Creating curriculum from the ground up. You'll refine and customize proven playbooks rather than designing lessons from scratch.
- Observing students work quietly on computers. Your role involves active coaching, encouragement, and engagement.
- Reducing expectations when students encounter difficulty. Success emerges from helping students meet the challenge, not adjusting the challenge downward.
- Overseeing homework, grading assignments, or handling standard parent communication.
Key responsibilities
Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are excited to attend school, reliably meet ambitious learning goals, and acquire the life skills that equip them to flourish well beyond elementary school.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work on-site at one of Alpha's campuses. Current openings for this salary tier are available in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Georgetown, Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, and Houston, TX; and Park City (Salt Lake City area), UT.
- Bachelor's degree in any subject.
- At least 3 years of experience working directly with children ages 4-9 through teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or similar environments.
- A demonstrated history of motivating young children to reach challenging goals, with concrete examples of your impact.
- Comfort using AI-powered learning while focusing your own energy on coaching, motivation, and life-skill development.
- The ability to balance warmth with unwavering expectations.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
Nice to have
- Experience in youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori, progressive education, or high-engagement after-school programs.
- Personal experience achieving ambitious goals in academics, athletics, or your career.
- Exceptional storytelling or performance abilities that naturally engage the attention of young children.
- Evidence of helping reluctant or shy children become confident, engaged participants.
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