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Reading Interventionist $120,000 USD/year
Description
- $120,000 annual salary, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
- Full-time on-site position at a single Alpha campus: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, or Santa Monica, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; or New York City, NY (relocation assistance available)
- 40 hours per week, 100% classroom-based work with K-3 students
Your structured-literacy certification — 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 defined the limit: you delivered someone else's curriculum and documented the results. At Alpha, the certification is your entry point. If that difference resonates with you, continue reading.
Alpha has redesigned traditional classroom instruction. Students progress through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications. There are no lectures, no textbooks, and no district pacing calendars. Your position represents the irreplaceable human element. You create 20-minute small-group workshops informed by live app analytics; sessions are brief intentionally, because targeted instruction outperforms duration. You also facilitate motivation sessions designed to ensure 100% of your students meet their weekly app targets, leveraging Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification). When you catch a student's miscue during a session, you identify the phonemic deficit and redesign the next day's workshop before you leave. That is the expectation.
Families at these campuses select Alpha for measurable results, not simply enrollment. Parents receive weekly updates on their child's reading development, and they engage actively. You will field specific questions about individual student progress, and vague reassurances will not suffice. You will reference the running record, identify the phonemic gap, and describe your instructional response. This level of accountability should energize you, not exhaust you.
Your initial months focus on establishing credibility. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective; student satisfaction and "love your Guide" survey results (target 90%+) provide direct feedback. As you succeed, your influence grows beyond your classroom: successful practices you develop become models adopted across other Alpha campuses, and your diagnostic precision influences reading instruction as Alpha scales. The impact of your work extends beyond your immediate environment.
Before an offer is extended, you will submit a short video in which you tell an engaging story for young children, and you will complete a full day on campus working directly with K-3 students. Low energy with children will disqualify you, regardless of credential strength. This is intentional. Apply today.
What you will be doing
- Creating small-group K-3 reading workshops using real-time adaptive-app data, rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent)
- Facilitating daily motivation sessions to drive 100% of your students toward their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational model (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
- Analyzing AI-generated performance metrics (fluency curves, decoding accuracy, comprehension indicators) to modify instruction during the day, not only during planning periods
- Conducting running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to generate progress visible in weekly campus data reviews
- Serving as the engaging, high-energy adult your K-3 students are excited to see every day
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing calendar; you create lessons directly from student data
- Delivering whole-class lectures; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups while 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 time is structured around workshops, motivation sessions, and data-driven small groups
- Developing 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 advancement across phonics, fluency, and comprehension within a campus environment where outcomes undergo weekly review.
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 environment within the last 5 years, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
- Proven capacity to design independent reading lessons and clearly explain what you teach and how, without depending on a published program
- Availability to work in person full-time at one Alpha campus: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, or Santa Monica, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; or New York City, NY (relocation assistance available)
- Readiness to work with all K-3 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and incorporate AI and adaptive-learning tools into daily instruction as these tools develop
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without requiring 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 interpretation
- Documented history of measurable reading outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy improvement, decoding level advancement) you can describe with specific numbers
- Familiarity with diagnostic reading assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) for creating differentiated instructional groups
- Experience in high-accountability educational settings (independent schools, elite charter networks, premium tutoring environments with families who monitor outcomes closely)
- Background in performance, youth sports coaching, or other activities requiring you to engage a K-3 audience outside traditional reading instruction
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