Description
- On-site position at Alpha School's campus in Dorado, Puerto Rico
- $100,000 annual salary ($50/hour, 40 hours/week), with weekly pay
- Formal teaching certification not required; Spanish fluency beneficial
The most supportive action you can take for a student who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation makes you uneasy, this position is not the right fit. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards demonstrates your belief in a child's capability, continue reading.
Alpha School operates on a 2 Hour Learning framework: students in grades K-8 complete a full day's worth of academics in approximately two hours using adaptive learning applications. No traditional lectures. No conventional textbooks. Your role covers what the technology cannot — guiding children through essential life competencies including public speaking, concentration, collaboration, and constructive feedback exchange.
Approximately 60% of your time will focus on individual motivation: reviewing learning app dashboards and Coachbot data, identifying where an 8-year-old struggles with fractions or a 5th grader resists reading assignments, and helping them overcome these obstacles. The remaining 40% involves facilitating interactive, hour-long workshops that resemble improv practice sessions more than traditional classroom instruction. Every student must demonstrate mastery via Test2Pass assessments before progression.
This position offers growth. You'll manage a small cohort and internalize Alpha's methodology during your first year. Demonstrate that you can guide every student to achieve 100% of their objectives while maintaining strong satisfaction metrics, and advancement opportunities emerge to Lead Guide, then Campus Lead (overseeing an entire school). You'll witness a child who avoided eye contact in September confidently present to a room of parents by spring.
Apply if you believe placing 30 children in rows to listen passively to one adult fails to honor what children are capable of achieving.
What you will be doing
- Guiding K-8 students individually and in small groups through adaptive learning applications, leveraging Coachbot analytics and dashboards to identify obstacles and root causes
- Implementing Alpha's motivation system (leaderboards, incentive structures, weekly objective-setting) to ensure every student progresses at the anticipated rate
- Facilitating hour-long, experiential life-skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, collaboration, and constructive feedback exchange (project-driven and interactive, never lecture-based)
- Conducting Test2Pass mastery assessments and maintaining standards: students progress only after demonstrating genuine comprehension
- Establishing trust with students so rigorous accountability feels empowering rather than discouraging
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lectures or conventional academic instruction (students master core subjects via adaptive apps, not through direct instruction from you)
- Creating lesson plans independently — Alpha supplies the curriculum and implementation guides; you animate them with enthusiasm and narrative skill
- Grading homework assignments or preparing students for standardized testing; these elements are absent from this model
- Handling parent communications or operational school matters — Campus Leads manage those areas, allowing you to concentrate on your cohort
- Providing passive supervision while kids use laptops; if you're not actively coaching, the role isn't being fulfilled
Key responsibilities
Guide a cohort of K-8 students to achieve 100% of their academic and life-skills objectives.
Candidate requirements
- Available to work on-site 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 domains
- Authorization to work legally in the United States or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Bilingual fluency in English and Spanish to strengthen connections with students and families within the Dorado community
- Background in coaching environments where elevated standards produced quantifiable results (competitive athletics, debate, performing arts, or selective youth programs)
- Track record leading youth workshops, summer camps, or after-school initiatives where you created the programming, not merely oversaw participants
- Knowledge of adaptive or app-based learning systems (e.g., Khan Academy, IXL, DreamBox)
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