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

About the role

Bridging the gap between AI-driven academic instruction and genuine engagement with learning 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.
• 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 in the US (relocation support provided).
• Willing to hold high standards with students, even when they push back.
• Experience in early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership with at least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 9.
• Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while focusing on motivation and life-skills coaching.
• Personal history of high achievement and a track record of motivating young kids to achieve hard goals.
• Willingness to work full-time (40 hours per week) as an independent contractor with Crossover.
• Legal authorization to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs.
• A track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering lessons from the front of the room.
• Creating curriculum materials from the ground up.
• Passively monitoring students at computers.
• Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it.
• Grading assignments, preparing for standardized tests, or handling parent outreach.

About Alpha

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. We hire teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members. Our compensation levels are competitive, and we have a culture built for builders who want to improve the system, not maintain it.