2nd Grade Teacher, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

About the role

Bridging the gap between AI-driven academic instruction and genuine student engagement is your primary responsibility. You will oversee a cohort band of either Kindergarten and 1st grade or 2nd and 3rd grade students, focusing on life-skills workshops and individual coaching sessions.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate one-hour life-skills workshops on topics like public speaking, focus, and feedback exchange, customizing the playbook for your group.
• Conduct daily one-on-one and small-group coaching sessions to ensure students stay on track for their weekly app targets using Coachbot analytics and Alpha's motivational tools.
• Deliver the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for each life skill, and provide targeted coaching to students who do not pass until they achieve mastery.
• Engage kindergarteners through songs, stories, movement, and play while maintaining concrete, measurable expectations for second and third graders.
• Build trust with students to set high expectations and ensure they report loving you by the end of the year.

Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in various locations (La Jolla, Lake Forest, Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, South Bay, Greenwich, Boca Raton, Miami Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Chicago, Boston).
• Willing to hold high standards with students even when they push back.
• Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while focusing on motivation and life-skills coaching.
• Willingness to motivate young children to hard goals, as demonstrated by a specific example.
• Willingness to relocate to a location outside of California if required.
• Basic requirements include a Bachelor's degree and at least 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 9.
• Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals.
• A personal history of high achievement and a track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants.
• Likely to be legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

Benefits

No benefits are offered for this role.

Pay

$60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year.

Schedule

The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record.