Learning Specialist $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- $100,000/year salary, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
- On-site at an Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Fort Worth, Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), or Plano, TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Dorado, Puerto Rico (relocation assistance available)
- 40 hours/week, 100% in-classroom instruction with K-2 students
You've built deep expertise in structured literacy. Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction. You recognize a student's miscue and immediately identify the phonemic gap. You build phonics lessons from scratch, without a scripted program. That's the baseline. It's not what sets you apart.
What sets you apart is that six-year-olds are excited when you enter the room. At Alpha, this position is a Guide first: a dynamic, engaging presence children want to work with. Your structured-literacy credentials open the door; your capacity to captivate a K-2 classroom for a 20-minute workshop is what earns the offer. If "dynamic, engaging presence" isn't how others describe you, this isn't the right fit.
Alpha has reimagined traditional education. Students complete academic work independently using AI-adaptive applications — no lectures, no textbooks, no district pacing. Your role is the one area where a human expert cannot be replaced. You create small-group reading workshops based on real-time student performance data, and you facilitate motivation sessions that inspire 100% of your students to achieve their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).
Your first months focus on building rapport with the classroom. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction scores and "love your Guide" surveys (target 90%+) measure this directly. As you demonstrate success, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance data to refine upcoming instruction, communicating fluency growth and decoding progress to parents, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading methodology evolves alongside adaptive technology. As Alpha opens new campuses, what you develop becomes the blueprint for reading instruction across the network.
Before an offer is extended, you'll submit a short video sharing an engaging story for young children, and you'll spend a full day on campus teaching K-2 students directly. Low energy with children disqualifies candidates, regardless of credentials. This is intentional. Apply today.
What you will be doing
- Creating and facilitating small-group K-2 reading workshops based on structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent), driven by live student data
- Facilitating daily motivation sessions that inspire 100% of your students to reach their weekly adaptive-app targets, leveraging Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
- Conducting and evaluating running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to monitor progress and refine instruction for subsequent sessions
- Analyzing AI-generated performance data from Alpha's adaptive learning apps to differentiate instruction dynamically, not only during planning
- Serving as the approachable, high-energy adult your K-2 students are eager to see every day
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing guide; you create lessons directly from student data
- Delivering lectures to an entire classroom; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups and students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps
- Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach to other educators, or district-level specialist; you work in the classroom with children daily
- Managing a traditional classroom schedule — subject-by-subject lectures, homework review, test preparation; your time is allocated to workshops, motivation sessions, and data-driven small groups
- Grading homework or issuing report cards; student progress is captured in app data and your running records
Key responsibilities
Provide structured-literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading outcomes across phonics, fluency, and decoding.
Candidate requirements
- Structured-literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent) OR a Master's degree in reading instruction
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline, plus 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment, using systematic phonics or structured literacy
- Proven ability to create your own reading lessons and clearly explain what you teach and how, without dependence on a published program
- Willingness to work in person full-time at an Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Fort Worth, Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), or Plano, TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Dorado, Puerto Rico (relocation assistance available)
- Willingness to work with all K-2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning tools into daily instruction
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
- Bilingual English/Spanish required for the Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
Nice to have
- Practical experience with AI-powered or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for instructional planning or student data interpretation
- Documented history of measurable reading outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy improvement, decoding level advancement) you can cite with specific numbers
- Experience in non-traditional or innovative school environments (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
- Experience performing, coaching youth sports, or otherwise engaging a K-2 audience beyond the reading classroom
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