Description
- On-site position at Alpha School's Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
- Annual salary of $100,000 ($50/hour, 40 hours/week), with weekly payment
- Formal teaching certification not required; Spanish fluency beneficial
The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their target is to insist it's not finished. If that expectation makes you uneasy, this position won't suit you. If it energizes you—because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a child's potential—continue reading.
Alpha School operates on the 2 Hour Learning framework: students in grades K-8 complete a full day's worth of academic work in approximately two hours using adaptive learning applications. No traditional lectures. No conventional textbooks. Your role encompasses what the technology cannot provide—guiding students through essential life competencies including public speaking, concentration, collaboration, and feedback exchange.
Approximately 60% of your time involves individualized motivational coaching: reviewing learning app dashboards and Coachbot data, identifying where an 8-year-old struggles with fractions or a 5th grader resists reading assignments, and facilitating breakthroughs. The remaining 40% consists of leading interactive, hour-long workshops that resemble improv practice more than conventional classroom instruction. All students must demonstrate mastery via Test2Pass assessments before progression.
This position offers advancement. You'll manage a small cohort and internalize Alpha's operational framework during year one. Demonstrate your ability to guide every student to 100% goal achievement while maintaining strong satisfaction metrics, and the trajectory opens toward Lead Guide, then Campus Lead (overseeing an entire school). You'll witness a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a poised presentation to parents by spring.
Apply if you believe seating 30 children in rows to listen to one adult undervalues what children are capable of achieving.
What you will be doing
- Guiding K-8 students individually and in small groups through adaptive learning platforms, leveraging Coachbot analytics and dashboards to identify learning obstacles and their causes
- Implementing Alpha's motivational system (leaderboards, incentive structures, weekly target-setting) to ensure every student progresses at the anticipated rate
- Facilitating hour-long, experiential life-skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, teamwork, and feedback processes (project-driven and interactive, never lecture-based)
- Overseeing Test2Pass mastery evaluations and maintaining standards: students advance only after demonstrating genuine comprehension
- Establishing trust with students so that rigorous accountability feels inspiring rather than punitive
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lectures or traditional academic instruction (students master core subjects through adaptive applications, not direct instruction from you)
- Creating lesson plans from the ground up—Alpha supplies the curriculum and implementation guides; you animate them with enthusiasm and narrative
- Grading homework assignments or preparing students for standardized testing; these elements don't exist in this model
- Handling parent communications or operational school management—Campus Leads own those responsibilities, allowing you to concentrate on your cohort
- Providing passive laptop supervision; active coaching is the core function of this role
Key responsibilities
Guide a cohort of K-8 students to achieve 100% of their academic and life-skills targets.
Candidate requirements
- Available to work in-person at Alpha's Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- 3+ years of direct, hands-on experience working with K-8 (kindergarten through 8th grade) students via teaching, tutoring, youth programs, camps, or sports coaching
- Demonstrated record of high personal achievement in academic, athletic, or professional contexts
- Legal authorization to work in the United States or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Bilingual fluency in English and Spanish for establishing rapport with students and families in the Dorado community
- Background in coaching environments where elevated standards produced measurable results (competitive athletics, debate, performing arts, or selective youth programs)
- Track record running youth workshops, summer camps, or after-school programs where you created the activities, not merely supervised
- Knowledge of adaptive or app-based learning technologies (e.g., Khan Academy, IXL, DreamBox)
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