Description
- $120,000/year salary, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting on day one
- On-site at a single Alpha campus: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Malibu, Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, or Santa Monica, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Seattle, WA (relocation assistance available)
- Full-time 40 hours/week, 100% in-classroom instruction with K-3 students
Your structured-literacy credential — whether Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction — has opened the door to every K-3 reading position you've pursued. In most of those roles, it also became your ceiling: you delivered someone else's program and reported outcomes. Here, that credential is your starting point. If this difference resonates with you, read on.
Alpha has redesigned traditional instruction. Students progress through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications. There are no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing guides. Your role occupies the space where human expertise remains essential. You create 20-minute small-group workshops based on real-time app data; sessions are brief by design, because precision is more effective than duration. You also lead motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students reach their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification). When you catch a student's miscue during a session, you identify the phonemic gap and have the next day's workshop revised before the end of the day. That is the expectation.
Families at these campuses have selected Alpha for results, not simply for enrollment. Parents receive weekly data on their child's reading progress and they engage actively. You will field specific questions about individual student advancement, and "they're doing fine" will not suffice. You will need to reference the running record, identify the phonemic gap, and describe your intervention. That level of accountability should energize you, not burden you.
Your initial months focus on establishing credibility. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective; student satisfaction and "love your Guide" survey scores (target 90%+) measure this directly. Once you establish yourself, your influence expands beyond your classroom: strategies that succeed with your students become models for other Alpha campuses to implement, and your diagnostic precision informs how reading is taught as Alpha scales. The work you do here extends beyond your immediate environment.
Prior to hiring, you will submit a short video in which you tell an engaging story for young children, and you will spend a full day on campus working directly with K-3 students. Low energy with children will disqualify you, regardless of your credentials. This is intentional. Apply today.
What you will be doing
- Creating small-group K-3 reading workshops using live adaptive-app data, anchored in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent)
- Leading daily motivation sessions that drive 100% of your students to meet their weekly app goals through Alpha's motivational model (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
- Analyzing AI-generated performance data (fluency curves, decoding accuracy, comprehension signals) to modify instruction mid-day, not only during planning time
- Conducting running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to generate gains that appear in the weekly campus data review
- Serving as the energetic, relatable adult that your K-3 students are excited to see each day
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing guide; you create lessons based on student data
- Delivering lectures to a full classroom; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups and students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps
- Serving as a reading consultant, teacher coach, or district-level specialist; you are in the classroom with students daily
- Managing a traditional classroom schedule: subject-by-subject lectures, homework review, test preparation. Your scheduled blocks consist of workshops, motivation sessions, and data-driven small groups
- Drafting IEPs, 504 plans, or formal diagnostic reports; student progress is tracked through app data and your running records, not special-education documentation
Key responsibilities
Generate measurable K-3 reading growth across phonics, fluency, and comprehension within a campus community where outcomes are reviewed weekly.
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-3 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical setting within the last 5 years, using systematic phonics or structured literacy
- Proven ability to design your own reading lessons and clearly explain what you teach and how, without depending on a published program
- Willingness to work in person full-time at one Alpha campus: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Malibu, Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, or Santa Monica, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Seattle, WA (relocation support provided)
- Willingness to work with all K-3 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and incorporate AI and adaptive-learning tools into daily instruction as those tools develop
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Direct experience with AI-powered or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for instructional planning or student data analysis
- Documented record of measurable reading outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy improvement, decoding level advancement) you can quantify
- Familiarity with diagnostic reading assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) for creating differentiated groups
- Experience in high-accountability school settings (independent, elite charter, premium tutoring with families who closely monitor outcomes)
- Background in performance, youth sports coaching, or otherwise engaging a K-3 audience outside the reading classroom
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