Description
- Based on-site at Alpha School's Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
- Annual compensation of $100,000 ($50/hour for 40 hours/week), distributed weekly
- Teaching certification not required; Spanish fluency is beneficial
The most valuable support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their objective is to refuse to accept anything less than 100%. If this standard makes you uneasy, this position is not the right fit. If it energizes you because maintaining high expectations is how you demonstrate belief in a child's potential, continue reading.
Alpha School operates on the 2 Hour Learning framework: students from kindergarten through 8th grade complete a full day's worth of academic work in roughly two hours using adaptive learning technology. There are no lectures or textbooks. Your responsibility centers on what software cannot provide—guiding students through essential life competencies including public speaking, concentration, collaboration, and constructive feedback exchange.
Approximately 60% of your time will focus on individual student motivation: reviewing learning platform dashboards and Coachbot data, identifying where a third grader struggles with fractions or a fifth grader resists reading assignments, then helping them overcome these challenges. The remaining 40% involves facilitating interactive, hour-long workshops that resemble improv practice sessions more than traditional classroom instruction. All students must demonstrate mastery through Test2Pass evaluations before progression.
This position offers growth potential. You'll guide a small student cohort and become proficient in Alpha's methodology during your first year. Demonstrate your ability to support every student in reaching 100% of their objectives while maintaining strong satisfaction metrics, and advancement opportunities emerge—first to Lead Guide, then to Campus Lead, where you oversee an entire school. You'll witness transformations like a child who avoided eye contact in September confidently presenting to parents by spring.
Apply if you believe that having 30 children seated in rows listening to a single instructor fails to honor what students are capable of achieving.
What you will be doing
- Providing one-on-one and small-group guidance to K-8 students using adaptive learning platforms, leveraging Coachbot analytics and dashboards to identify learning obstacles and their causes
- Implementing Alpha's motivational system (including leaderboards, rewards, and weekly objective-setting) to ensure every student progresses at the required rate
- Facilitating hour-long, experiential life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, concentration, collaboration, and constructive feedback (project-driven and participatory, never lecture-based)
- Conducting Test2Pass mastery evaluations and maintaining standards: students progress only after demonstrating genuine understanding
- Establishing trust with students so rigorous accountability is experienced as encouraging rather than discouraging
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering traditional lectures or direct academic instruction (students master core subjects through adaptive platforms, not instructor-led teaching)
- Creating lesson plans independently—Alpha supplies the curriculum and implementation guides; you animate them with enthusiasm and narrative skill
- Evaluating homework assignments or preparing students for standardized examinations; these elements don't exist in this model
- Handling parent communications or operational school matters—Campus Leads manage those areas, allowing you to concentrate on your student cohort
- Providing passive supervision while students work on devices; active coaching is integral to this role
Key responsibilities
Guide a cohort of K-8 students to achieve 100% of their academic objectives and life-skills development targets.
Candidate requirements
- Available to work on-site at Alpha's Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline
- 3+ years of direct, hands-on experience working with K-8 (kindergarten through 8th grade) students in teaching, tutoring, youth programming, camps, or athletic coaching capacities
- Track record of significant personal accomplishment in academic, athletic, or professional domains
- Capacity to lead groups of K-8 students through dynamic, interactive workshop sessions
- Proven capability to inspire young people to overcome challenges and pursue ambitious objectives
- Leadership qualities and exemplary conduct that integrate rigorous standards with meaningful support
- Legal authorization to work in the United States or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish to strengthen connections with students and families in the Dorado area
- Background in coaching environments where elevated standards produced quantifiable results (competitive athletics, debate competitions, performing arts, or selective youth initiatives)
- Experience leading youth workshops, summer programs, or after-school activities where you created the programming, not merely provided oversight
- Prior exposure to adaptive or application-based learning systems (such as Khan Academy, IXL, DreamBox)
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