Description
- $120,000 annual W2 salary paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
- On-site, full-time role (40 hours per week) at Alpha School's Kirkland, WA campus (temporary assignment at a different Alpha campus may occur before the Kirkland location opens)
- Valid Washington State Teaching Certificate is mandatory. Without it, there will be no interview.
You hold a current WA teaching certificate. The real question is whether you still want to spend your career lecturing, grading papers, and delivering a standardized curriculum that fits nobody perfectly.
This role is not traditional teaching. You are here to motivate. The most powerful support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their weekly target is to refuse to accept it as finished. If that idea makes you uneasy, this is not the right fit. If it energizes you—because maintaining high standards is how you signal belief in a student's capacity—then continue reading.
At Alpha, academic content is delivered through AI-powered adaptive applications. There are no lectures, textbooks, or lesson plans to prepare over the weekend. Approximately 60% of your time is spent facilitating one-hour workshops focused on life skills: public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback. About 30% involves individual or small-group coaching sessions where you analyze Coachbot data and drive each student toward their weekly app progression benchmarks. The remaining 10% is dedicated to reviewing performance data and translating insights into actionable coaching strategies for the week ahead. You will not follow a rigid script; top performers in this role adapt existing workshops and create new ones to address emerging needs.
Excellence in this position is not measured by how enjoyable your sessions are. It is defined by measurable student progress. A successful semester means at least 90% of your cohort demonstrates pre-to-post improvement on Test2Pass, at least 90% meet their weekly learning-app targets, and students rate their experience with you at 4 out of 5 or higher. Falling short on any of these three metrics means you have not met the standard. As you demonstrate your ability to uphold these expectations, advancement opportunities open up—first to Lead Guide, where you mentor newer Guides while continuing to manage a cohort, and eventually to Campus Lead.
If you prefer ready-made curriculum or believe that warmth and rigorous standards cannot coexist, this role is not for you. If your WA certificate is active and you are excited by the prospect of coaching K-8 students to tangible results rather than lecturing from a textbook, submit your application today.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback; adapting the existing framework and creating new sessions when you identify unmet needs
- Administering pre- and post-assessments using Test2Pass, then coaching students who have not yet achieved mastery until they demonstrate proficiency
- Conducting daily one-on-one and small-group coaching sessions designed to drive every student toward their weekly app progression goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal rapport with each student to overcome resistance
- Analyzing weekly performance metrics, identifying struggling students early, and implementing corrective interventions within the same week
- Serving as the adult who maintains high expectations while also being someone students trust and want to confide in; warmth creates the foundation that allows you to challenge them, and challenging them demonstrates your confidence in their abilities
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lectures at a whiteboard or preparing daily lesson plans; academic instruction is embedded in the apps, not delivered by you
- Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate a proven framework through energy and compelling storytelling
- Passively monitoring students at computers or allowing them to coast through the day without engagement; motivation here is deliberate, individualized, and persistent
- Reducing a weekly target or advancing a student without verified mastery in order to maintain schedule or sidestep difficult discussions
- Grading assignments or handling parent correspondence
Key responsibilities
Guide a K-8 cohort to measurable mastery of life skills and consistent achievement of weekly learning-app progression targets.
Candidate requirements
- Current, valid Washington State Teaching Certificate (issued by WA OSPI) or ability to secure one promptly
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- Availability to work full-time (40 hours per week) on-site at Alpha School's Kirkland, WA campus (temporary placement at another Alpha campus possible if Kirkland opening is delayed)
- Comfort with allowing AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Prior experience working with K-8 students in any setting (teaching, tutoring, sports coaching, debate, theater, camps, or after-school programs)
- Background of high personal achievement (academic, athletic, or professional) that makes holding others to rigorous standards a natural practice rather than an adopted stance
- Strong storytelling ability and stage presence capable of engaging a group of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
- Demonstrated success in transforming disengaged or resistant learners into active, motivated participants
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