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

About the role

At Alpha, students in grades K–3 complete their academic work through AI-powered applications in two hours each day. As a Guide, you oversee one cohort band—either K-1 or 2-3—and adjust your approach, tempo, and workshop delivery to fit that group. Your primary responsibilities include:

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, focus, and feedback exchange.
• Conducting daily one-on-one and small-group coaching sessions to ensure every student stays on track for their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's motivational tools (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual rapport you establish with each child.
• Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for each life skill, and providing targeted coaching to students who do not pass until they achieve mastery.
• Engaging kindergarteners through songs, stories, movement, and play while simultaneously maintaining concrete, measurable expectations for second and third graders.
• Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at arrival AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less than their best.

Responsibilities

Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-3 cohorts on topics including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, customizing the playbook for your group rather than following it verbatim.

Conducting daily one-on-one and small-group coaching sessions to ensure every student stays on track for their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's motivational tools (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual rapport you establish with each child.

Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for each life skill, and providing targeted coaching to students who do not pass until they achieve mastery.

Engaging kindergarteners through songs, stories, movement, and play while simultaneously maintaining concrete, measurable expectations for second and third graders.

Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at arrival AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less than their best.

Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, Miami Beach, or Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation support provided).
• Bachelor's degree in any subject.
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 9 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
• A specific example you can describe of motivating a young child to a hard goal: the goal, what you did, and the outcome.
• Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching.
• Willingness to hold high standards with students even when they push back.
• Likely to be legally authorized 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 where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals.
• Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture.
• Natural performer's presence with little kids: the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movement.
• Track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants.