Description
- $100,000 annual salary, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage from day one
- On-site at one of Alpha's campuses: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Fort Worth (Keller), Dallas, Plano, or The Woodlands, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation support available)
- 40 hours per week, 100% in-classroom with K-2 students
You have deep expertise in structured literacy: Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction. You can diagnose a phonemic gap from a miscue and craft a phonics lesson without a script. That qualifies you. It doesn't distinguish you.
What distinguishes you is that six-year-olds are excited to see you. At Alpha, this position is a Guide role first: a dynamic, magnetic presence children enjoy learning with. Your reading knowledge opens the door; your capacity to captivate a K-2 group for 20 minutes is what earns the offer.
Alpha has reimagined traditional schooling. Students advance through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications, without lectures, textbooks, or district pacing calendars. You create targeted reading workshops using live performance data and lead motivation sessions that propel students toward weekly app targets through school currency, leaderboards, and developmentally appropriate gamification.
Your initial months focus on building rapport and trust. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction and "love your Guide" feedback directly measure your success. Once established, your role expands: analyzing AI-generated insights to refine instruction, documenting fluency and decoding progress, and influencing Alpha's K-2 reading model as adaptive platforms mature.
Before an offer is extended, you will submit a short video sharing an engaging story for young children and complete a full day on campus working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children will disqualify you, regardless of credential strength. Apply today.
What you will be doing
- Creating and facilitating small-group K-2 reading workshops rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent), informed by live student performance data
- Conducting daily motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students meet their weekly adaptive-app targets, leveraging Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
- Conducting and evaluating running records, fluency assessments, and decoding diagnostics to monitor progress and refine subsequent instruction
- Analyzing AI-generated student performance data from Alpha's adaptive learning platforms to differentiate instruction dynamically, not only during lesson prep
- Serving as the engaging, energetic adult your K-2 students are eager to see every day
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a commercial reading curriculum, scripted lesson plan, or district pacing calendar; you create your own lessons using student data
- Delivering lectures to a full class; all teaching occurs in small, targeted groups while students engage with academic content through adaptive apps
- Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach, or district-level specialist; you work directly with children in the classroom daily
- Managing a conventional classroom schedule — whole-class instruction by subject, homework correction, test preparation; your time is devoted to workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small groups
- Assigning grades for homework or report cards; student progress is tracked through app analytics and your running records
Key responsibilities
Provide structured-literacy instruction that produces measurable improvements in K-2 reading performance 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 field, plus 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction within the past 5 years in a school or clinical environment, using systematic phonics or structured literacy
- Proven ability to create original reading lessons and articulate instructional rationale and methods, independent of published programs
- Proven ability to assess reading progress and describe specific student improvements in fluency, accuracy, phonics, or decoding
- Willingness to work full-time in person at one of Alpha's campuses: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Fort Worth (Keller), Dallas, Plano, or The Woodlands, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation support available)
- Willingness to teach all K-2 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and incorporate AI and adaptive-learning technologies into daily practice
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without need for visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Practical experience with AI-driven or adaptive reading tools (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for instructional planning or student data interpretation
- Experience in non-traditional or innovative educational settings (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
- Experience in performance, youth sports coaching, or otherwise engaging K-2 audiences beyond the reading classroom
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