Kindergarten Teacher $120,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Kindergarten Teacher $120,000 USD/year
Description
AI-powered applications can teach a six-year-old to decode words. They cannot teach her to want to. Closing that gap is what this role is about.
At Alpha, K-2 students complete academic instruction through AI-driven apps in two hours each day. No traditional lessons. No printed worksheets. For one half of your day, you facilitate one-hour workshops focused on life skills: public speaking, concentration, and feedback exchange. A curriculum framework is in place, but top performers modify it to suit their group and create new content when needed. During the other half, you work with students individually or in small clusters, analyze Coachbot data, and support each child in reaching 100% of their app-based weekly targets. Warmth builds trust that lets you hold the line. Holding the line communicates your belief in their capacity.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and at least 90% report they love you. Fall short on any one of those and the quarter was a miss. In your first year, you internalize the playbook; once you demonstrate you can maintain standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available—a role where you mentor new hires while continuing to run your own cohort.
If you prefer conventional classroom teaching, want lesson plans delivered to you fully scripted, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role is not a fit. If you have experience as an early-elementary teacher who excelled at circle time, a counselor at camps for young children, a coach for youth sports, or a performer in children's theater, the final interview stage includes a shadow day coaching live Alpha students. Submit your application now.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-2 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational competencies, customizing the playbook for your group rather than following it verbatim.
- Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that ensure every student stays on track for weekly app targets, drawing on Coachbot analytics, Alpha's motivation tools (campus currency, performance boards), and the rapport you establish with each child.
- Delivering the Test2Pass—Alpha's competency-based evaluation—for each life skill, and providing continued coaching to students until mastery is achieved.
- Engaging kindergarteners through songs, narratives, physical activity, and playfulness while maintaining real, quantifiable expectations for first and second graders.
- Serving as the approachable adult children are excited to see at morning arrival AND the adult who will not accept underperformance.
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering instruction at the whiteboard. Academic content is housed in the applications, not delivered by you.
- Creating lesson plans from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook; your role is to animate it.
- Passively monitoring children at computer stations. Motivation in this model is hands-on, individualized, and ongoing.
- Adjusting a weekly target downward so a child can meet it. When a student falls behind, the solution is to support the student, not lower the standard.
- Assessing homework, preparing for standardized exams, or handling parent outreach. Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model.
Key responsibilities
Guarantee that every student in your K-2 cohort completes their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work onsite at an Alpha campus in La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, Miami, or Miami Beach, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation assistance available).
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline.
- Minimum of 3 years of direct experience with children ages 4 to 7 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program coordination).
- A concrete example you can share of motivating a young child toward a challenging goal: the objective, your approach, and the result.
- Comfort allowing AI to manage instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development.
- Readiness to uphold high expectations with students even when met with resistance.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.
Nice to have
- Background in youth sports coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori or progressive early education, or after-school programs where you held direct accountability for motivating young children toward defined objectives.
- History of high personal achievement (academic, athletic, or professional) that reflects a consistent commitment to holding yourself and others to demanding standards.
- Natural stage presence with young children: the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners using voice, humor, and physicality.
- Demonstrated success converting hesitant or reluctant young children into engaged, confident contributors.
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