Early Childhood Educator, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

About the Role

This position is about fostering confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to embrace difficult challenges in young learners. You will oversee a single K-3 cohort band (Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade) and spend your day coaching students through obstacles, acknowledging achievements, and demonstrating rigorous standards combined with authentic support. Approximately half of each day is dedicated to facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on essential life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remaining time is spent coaching children individually and in small groups, leveraging learning analytics to ensure every student progresses toward challenging weekly objectives.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitate dynamic life-skills workshops that support K-3 students in developing communication, concentration, feedback reception, and other enduring competencies through hands-on engagement rather than passive instruction.
• Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child advances toward challenging weekly learning targets.
• Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2Pass system, guiding students until they exhibit genuine mastery—not simply attendance.
• Modify your coaching approach to suit the developmental stage of your cohort, incorporating songs, physical activity, and narrative for younger students or emphasizing greater autonomy and responsibility for older learners.
• Cultivate relationships in which students feel secure enough to push beyond their perceived limitations.

What You Won't Be Doing

• Delivering academic instruction from the front of the room. Students complete academics via adaptive software.
• Developing curriculum from the ground up. You will refine and customize established playbooks rather than creating lessons independently.
• Supervising students as they work quietly on computers. Your function is active coaching, encouragement, and engagement.
• Reducing standards when students face difficulty. Progress is achieved by supporting students to meet the objective, not by lowering the objective.
• Overseeing homework, grading assignments, or conducting routine parent outreach.

Early Childhood Educator Key Responsibilities

Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are enthusiastic about attending school, reliably meet ambitious learning targets, and acquire the life skills necessary for long-term success beyond elementary education.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at one of Alpha's campuses. Current opportunities at this compensation level are located in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, Georgetown, Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, and Houston, TX; and Park City (Salt Lake City area), UT.
• Bachelor's degree in any field.
• A minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4-9 in teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or comparable settings.
• Demonstrated success in motivating young children to reach demanding goals, with concrete examples of your influence.
• Ease with leveraging AI-powered learning technology while concentrating your efforts on coaching, motivation, and life-skill cultivation.
• Capacity to combine warmth with consistent high expectations.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth athletics, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori, progressive education, or highly interactive after-school programs.
• Personal history of reaching ambitious objectives in academics, sports, or professional life.
• Exceptional storytelling or performance abilities that naturally engage young children.
• Track record of transforming hesitant or reserved children into confident, active participants.

About Alpha

Join the team building school around student growth. Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members. Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience. Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It's for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it. Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

Pay & Schedule

• This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position.
• The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record.
• The compensation level for this role is $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year.
• The payment period is weekly.