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

Alpha students complete all academic work in just two hours each day. This is not an exaggeration—it's the foundation of this position. Academic instruction is delivered through adaptive software. What technology cannot provide is the ability to inspire a seven-year-old to believe she can accomplish more than she imagined—and that is precisely what this role requires.

About the Role

You will serve as a guide, dedicating your time to cultivating confidence, concentration, resilience, and the courage to tackle difficult challenges in young children who are still mastering basic tasks like tying their shoes. You will be responsible for one K-3 cohort band: either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd.

Your day will be divided between two primary activities. First, you'll facilitate dynamic, hour-long workshops focused on life skills—public speaking, exchanging feedback, sustaining attention. Second, you'll provide coaching in one-on-one and small-group settings, leveraging real-time learning data to ensure every child progresses toward an ambitious weekly target. Students should exit your workshops with expanded capabilities, and leave your coaching sessions with a strengthened belief in their own potential.

A teaching certificate or formal education background is not required. Some of our most effective educators in this role have come from youth athletics, children's theater, camp programs, and after-school enrichment. We seek someone children naturally respond to and strive to impress—someone who maintains high standards while ensuring every child feels valued.

This is a full-time, on-site position, five days per week, at an Alpha campus. Current openings are in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin and Plano, TX; and Park City (Salt Lake City area), UT.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate hour-long life-skills workshops where K-3 students actively practice communication, focus, and feedback through speaking and movement—not seated at desks or listening to lectures.
• Provide individualized and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot (Alpha's real-time learning-analytics platform) to identify students falling behind and intervene before weekly targets become unattainable.
• Evaluate life-skill proficiency through Test2Pass, Alpha's demonstrate-to-pass standard, continuing coaching until each student can actually perform the skill—mere participation does not satisfy the requirement.
• Adapt your methods to suit the developmental stage in front of you: incorporating songs, movement, and storytelling for younger cohorts; emphasizing independence, self-monitoring, and accountability for 2nd and 3rd graders.
• Establish sufficient trust with each child so they will take on challenging tasks in your presence and persist through initial failures.
• Take ownership of your cohort's performance metrics. Student progress will be visible on a dashboard weekly, and accessible to the entire team.
• Develop a K-3 cohort of students who are enthusiastic about attending school, consistently achieve ambitious learning objectives week after week, and graduate from elementary school equipped with essential life skills—confidence, focus, communication, resilience—that will continue to benefit them for decades.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering traditional academic lessons from the front of a classroom. Academic content is provided through adaptive software.
• Creating curriculum materials from the ground up. You will refine and customize established playbooks, not design them from scratch.
• Overseeing a quiet computer lab. If students are working independently while you remain stationary, the model is not functioning correctly.
• Reducing expectations when a student encounters difficulty. You advance the student toward the objective—never adjust the objective to meet the student.
• Grading assignments, setting homework, or managing routine parent correspondence.
• Working remotely or on a part-time schedule.

Requirements

• Willing and able to work on-site, five days a week, at one of the Alpha campuses listed in this posting.
• Bachelor's degree in any field. A teaching certificate is not required.
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4-9 — teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, children's theater, or a similar setting where kids showed up because of you.
• A track record of getting young children to reach a goal they didn't think they could reach, with specific examples you can walk us through.
• Experience leading structured activities for groups of young children and keeping 10-15 or more students engaged, focused, and participating.
• The ability to explain ideas clearly to young learners and redirect a group in real time when attention, behavior, or motivation slips.
• A track record of acting on feedback by changing your approach and improving the outcome.
• Comfortable being measured. You'll be accountable to weekly cohort data, and you'll use that data to decide where to spend your time.
• Willing to let AI handle the academic instruction while you focus on coaching, motivation, and life skills.
• The ability to be genuinely warm and completely immovable on expectations, at the same time.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience in youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori, progressive education, or high-engagement after-school programs.
• A personal history of chasing something ambitious — in academics, athletics, the arts, or your career — and finding out what it takes.
• Storytelling or performance chops that hold a room of six-year-olds without you raising your voice.
• Specific examples of turning a reluctant or shy child into a confident, participating one.

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. Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members. Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience. A culture built for builders: 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.

Benefits

This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits. All roles are year-long positions.

Pay

The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly.