Description
- On-site in Houston, TX—campuses in Central Houston, South Houston, or The Woodlands (we offer relocation support)
- $100,000 annual salary, paid each week. Full health, dental, and vision coverage begins on day one
The kindest thing you can offer a student who reached 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as finished. If that principle unsettles you, this position is not the right fit. If it energizes you—because you understand that upholding standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's capacity—continue reading.
Alpha operates differently than conventional schools. Students complete a full day's worth of academics in roughly two hours using adaptive software. No lectures. No textbooks. Your role is the element technology cannot replicate: coaching children from Pre-K through 8th grade on life skills such as public speaking, focus, and feedback exchange. Half of your day is spent facilitating hands-on workshops guided by structured playbooks and narrative techniques. The other half involves sitting with students individually or in small groups, examining their progress in adaptive learning platforms via Coachbot analytics, and driving them to achieve 100% of their weekly targets. Students demonstrate mastery through Test2Pass assessments, not participation-based grading.
In your first year, you will manage a cohort of students and become fluent in Alpha's approach: life skill workshops, motivation coaching, mastery-based evaluation. As you demonstrate the ability to hold every student to 100% of their goals while maintaining satisfaction scores above 90%, advancement to Lead Guide becomes accessible—a role where you mentor other Guides while remaining directly engaged with students. The most effective individuals in this position do more than transform individual lives; they influence how an entire campus functions.
If you have spent years coaching, counseling, or mentoring young people and wished you could eliminate traditional instruction to focus entirely on their development, this is the opportunity.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life skill workshops for Pre-K–8 students covering public speaking, focus, collaboration, and feedback exchange (hands-on and project-driven)
- Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions in which you assess each student's progress in adaptive learning platforms (via Coachbot analytics), establish goals, and drive them to reach 100% of their weekly objectives
- Overseeing and evaluating Test2Pass assessments to verify students have genuinely mastered each life skill, rather than simply participated
- Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from Pre-K students requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and accountability
- Cultivating authentic relationships with each student so they trust you sufficiently to accept coaching through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lectures or traditional academic instruction (students master core subjects through adaptive apps, not through you)
- Creating lesson plans or curriculum from the ground up (Alpha supplies life skills playbooks; your responsibility is to animate them with energy and storytelling)
- Handling parent communication or school administration (Campus Leads manage those areas; you remain concentrated on your students)
- Assigning grades to homework or overseeing standardized test preparation (those do not exist at Alpha)
- Operating independently (you are part of a campus team including Lead Guides, Campus Leads, and colleagues who exchange feedback and maintain mutual accountability)
Key responsibilities
Guarantee that every student in your cohort loves attending school, masters critical life skills, and achieves 100% of their academic objectives through adaptive learning software.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline
- 3+ years of direct experience with Pre-K–8 students through teaching, coaching, counseling, or youth program leadership
- Demonstrated history of coaching individual Pre-K–8 students toward challenging academic, behavioral, or extracurricular objectives, with specific examples of your actions and the outcomes produced
- Capability to facilitate engaging live workshops and communicate with energy, clarity, and presence across the Pre-K–8 age spectrum
- Confidence motivating reluctant students, maintaining high standards, and operating in a non-traditional, coaching-centered school model rather than providing traditional academic instruction
- Availability to work on-site at Alpha's Central Houston, South Houston, or The Woodlands campus (relocation support available)
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Background in youth sports coaching, camp leadership, or after-school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating children to achieve specific objectives
- History of notable personal achievement (academic distinctions, competitive athletics, or leadership positions requiring sustained excellence)
- Innate storytelling skill: you can maintain the attention of a room full of 12-year-olds for an hour without elevating your voice
- Experience motivating disengaged or resistant students and converting them into active contributors
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