Reading Interventionist $120,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- On-site at an Alpha campus in Lake Forest CA, Palo Alto CA, Piedmont CA, San Francisco CA, Santa Monica CA, Greenwich CT, Chicago IL, Boston MA, New York City NY, or Chantilly VA (relocation assistance available)
- $120,000 annual salary, distributed weekly. Full health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
- Adaptive learning systems and AI-driven tools embedded in everyday instruction
You know that 20 minutes of precision-targeted reading instruction outperforms 90 minutes of scripted lessons, and your student results back that up. You've seen children break through phonics barriers because you identified the specific gap—not because a curriculum prescribed the next step. If building lessons directly from live student data feels like professional autonomy instead of added burden, read on.
Reading instruction at Alpha operates on one core principle: every minute counts. Your workshops are 20-minute sessions designed around each learner's actual needs, not what a standard pacing calendar suggests. You'll evaluate reading abilities, organize targeted groups, and provide high-impact structured literacy instruction (phonics, fluency, comprehension) to students aged 4-7, driving measurable progress each week. AI-powered adaptive systems work alongside you, producing performance insights that inform tomorrow's instruction before today's session concludes.
This position expands over time. During your first year, you're immersed in classroom practice: facilitating workshops, leading motivational activities that transform hesitant readers into enthusiastic learners, and delivering detailed feedback to the technology team advancing Alpha's AI-driven literacy platforms. As these tools mature and your input refines them, your influence reaches beyond your immediate students. You'll contribute to a reading framework that functions across multiple campuses, scaling what you accomplish with 15 children into a model that serves hundreds.
If your career has been dedicated to demonstrating the effectiveness of structured literacy, and you're prepared to combine that skill with technology that multiplies its reach, this is where your influence transcends the limits of a single classroom.
What you will be doing
- Creating and conducting 20-minute reading workshops informed by your own diagnostic evaluation of each student's reading ability and instructional gaps
- Leveraging AI-generated performance insights to modify group composition and instructional priorities between sessions, rather than waiting for quarterly reviews
- Facilitating motivational activities that cultivate intrinsic reading engagement through age-appropriate gamification and personalized goal-setting with K-2 learners
- Piloting and assessing AI literacy platforms during live workshop sessions, then delivering structured feedback to the development team on efficacy and usability
- Monitoring measurable progress indicators (fluency growth, decoding advancement, accuracy rates) and applying that data to refine instructional strategies on a weekly basis
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a scripted or commercial reading curriculum. You assess student needs and create instruction independently.
- Conducting 60-90 minute lecture-based literacy lessons. Sessions are brief, targeted, and intensive.
- Teaching exclusively struggling readers. You'll work with all K-2 students across the full range of reading proficiency.
- Working separately from technology systems. AI adaptive tools are integrated into your everyday practice, not an occasional supplement.
- Delaying instructional changes until quarterly data cycles. You make adjustments in real time based on current performance data.
Key responsibilities
Advance early elementary students to grade-level reading proficiency through adaptive, AI-supported structured literacy instruction.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree (any field)
- Master's degree in reading instruction OR structured literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, LETRS, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent)
- 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment within the past 5 years, using systematic phonics or structured literacy approaches
- Capacity to develop original reading lessons and articulate your instructional content and methods without depending on a published program
- Availability to work on-site at an Alpha campus (Lake Forest CA, Palo Alto CA, Piedmont CA, San Francisco CA, Santa Monica CA, Greenwich CT, Chicago IL, Boston MA, New York City NY, or Chantilly VA; relocation assistance available)
- Commitment to daily use of AI and adaptive learning platforms and flexibility as these tools evolve
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Familiarity with diagnostic reading assessments (e.g., DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) for organizing differentiated instructional groups
- Documented history of measurable student reading progress you can articulate with concrete data (e.g., advanced 12 students from Level C to Level G over one semester)
- Prior collaboration with educational technology teams, product development teams, or instructional designers on tool creation
- Experience in a startup, micro-school, or alternative education setting where you developed systems instead of following established ones
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