Elementary School Teacher $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- $100,000 annual W2 salary paid weekly, plus health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
- On-site role at an Alpha campus located 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 here to teach. You are here to motivate.
The most caring thing you can do for a six-year-old who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation unsettles you, 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, students in grades K-3 complete academic learning through AI-powered applications over two hours each day. As a Guide, you work with one cohort band—either K-1 (Kindergarten through 1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd through 3rd grade)—and adjust your approach, tempo, and workshop delivery to match that group. There are no lectures or worksheets. Half your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, focus, and feedback exchange. These workshops serve as frameworks, not rigid scripts—the most effective Guides customize them for their cohort and create new ones when gaps appear. The other 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 objectives. With children aged five and six, energy and play are not supplementary; they are essential tools for sustaining attention long enough to teach anything meaningful. Warmth earns the credibility to challenge. Challenge signals your belief in their ability to succeed.
A successful quarter means every student achieves their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and at least 90% report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role is not being fulfilled. In your first year, you master the system; as you demonstrate your ability to uphold standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct work with students.
If you prefer traditional teaching methods, expect a pre-built curriculum, or view warmth and rigorous expectations as incompatible, this position is not suitable. If you have thrived as 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 capable of commanding a room of kindergarteners through voice, play, and sheer presence, the final step before receiving 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, focus, feedback, and other transferable skills
- Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions to keep students on track for weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the relationship you develop with each child
- Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not pass on the first attempt until they achieve mastery
- Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level using songs, stories, physical movement, 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 drop-off AND the adult who will not permit them to settle for less than their best
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lectures from a whiteboard; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you
- Creating curriculum from the ground up; Alpha supplies the framework and you execute it with energy and creativity
- Passively supervising children at computer stations; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and constant
- Reducing a weekly target so a child can reach it; when a student falls behind, the solution is to coach the student, not adjust the goal
- Grading homework, running standardized test preparation, or handling parent communication; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
Key responsibilities
Ensure that every student in your K-3 cohort achieves their weekly learning objectives, masters each life skill, and completes 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 assistance provided)
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- 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 share 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
- Experience 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 specific objectives
- Personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to demanding standards is a natural inclination, not an adopted persona
- Natural performer's energy with young children—the capacity to captivate a room of kindergarteners through voice, playfulness, and physical presence
- Proven ability to transform shy or hesitant young children into confident, engaged participants
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