Early Childhood Educator $120,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Early Childhood Educator $120,000 USD/year
Description
The curriculum is already designed. The AI already handles instruction. Your role is to help a child see they can accomplish what once seemed out of reach.
At Alpha, students finish their academic work in only two hours per day through adaptive learning technology. This leaves Guides free to concentrate on what truly transforms lives: cultivating confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to pursue difficult challenges. You won't be delivering lessons from the front of the room. Instead, you'll coach students through obstacles, recognize their achievements, and demonstrate what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic encouragement.
You'll guide one K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half your time involves facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remaining half is dedicated to individual and small-group coaching, leveraging learning analytics to ensure every child progresses toward ambitious weekly targets. Each moment counts. Students should emerge from your workshops more skilled than when they entered and finish your coaching sessions convinced they can accomplish more than they previously imagined.
This position isn't suited for someone seeking to deliver curriculum or manage a traditional classroom. It's designed for someone who enjoys inspiring young children, excels with measurable results, and trusts that the right coach can alter a child's path. If you've motivated kids as a teacher, coach, camp counselor, youth leader, or performer, you'll discover a distinctly different kind of classroom 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 that do not have a campus.
Current openings are available in La Jolla (San Diego), Orange County (Lake Forest), Los Angeles (South Bay, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu), San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco, Palo Alto, Piedmont), Greenwich, CT, Boca Raton, Miami, Miami Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Chicago, Boston, New York City, and Kirkland (Seattle area).
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 support K-3 students in mastering communication, concentration, feedback, and other enduring skills through active engagement rather than traditional instruction.
- Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation systems, and solid relationships to ensure every child stays on course for ambitious weekly learning targets.
- Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2Pass framework, guiding students until they show genuine comprehension—not merely attendance.
- Adjust your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, whether that involves songs, movement, and narratives for younger learners or greater independence and responsibility for older students.
- Establish the kinds of relationships where students feel encouraged enough to push beyond what they believed they could accomplish.
What you will NOT be doing
- Standing at a whiteboard delivering academic lessons. Students complete academics through adaptive software.
- Developing curriculum from the ground up. You'll refine and customize proven playbooks rather than creating lessons.
- Observing students work quietly on computers. Your role involves active coaching, encouragement, and engagement.
- Reducing expectations when students face difficulties. Success is achieved by helping students meet the goal, not adjusting the goal downward.
- Overseeing homework, grading assignments, or handling routine parent communication.
Key responsibilities
Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are enthusiastic about attending school, reliably meet ambitious learning targets, and acquire the life skills that equip them to succeed well beyond elementary school.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work on-site at one of Alpha's campuses. Current openings are available in La Jolla (San Diego); Orange County (Lake Forest); Los Angeles (South Bay, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu); San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco, Palo Alto, Piedmont); Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton; Miami; Miami Beach; Palm Beach Gardens; Chicago; Boston; New York City; and Kirkland (Seattle area). Relocation assistance is available.
- 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 track record of motivating young children to achieve challenging goals, with specific 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.
- Outstanding storytelling or performance skills that naturally capture the attention of young children.
- Evidence of helping reluctant or shy children become confident, engaged participants.
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