Early Elementary Teacher, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

About Alpha

Alpha is building a school around student growth, reimagining 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. It is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused — for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

What You Will Be Doing

• Delivering brief structured-literacy interventions with two to four students — identifying phonics or decoding deficits through running records and fluency assessments, designing targeted instructional sequences, and confirming skill transfer
• Supporting students through app-based core instruction: identifying when students have stalled, asking questions that facilitate problem-solving, maintaining daily performance expectations
• Facilitating morning opening routines, life-skills instruction, and progress-tracking activities that sustain engagement for six-year-olds
• Motivating students toward their weekly application goals using school currency systems, competitive leaderboards, and age-appropriate gamification
• Remaining with your students throughout lunch, recess, and dismissal, responding to resistance and frustration with individualized strategies designed for each child

What You Won't Be Doing

• Developing full-class lesson plans each evening. Your preparation is targeted and diagnostic in nature
• Managing a pull-out intervention caseload from a separate space. Reading groups represent approximately ten percent of your week and occur within the regular schedule, not parallel to it
• Implementing a commercial program with strict adherence to an external scope and sequence
• Drafting IEPs and 504 plans, managing assessment documentation, or participating in curriculum committees
• Transferring your students to other staff during planning periods. You remain with them from opening to dismissal

Early Elementary Teacher Key Responsibilities

Ensure every K-3 student reaches their daily learning targets, and eliminate the reading deficits that prevent them from progressing independently.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at one of the campuses listed below, with relocation support
• At least 3 years of direct experience with children ages 4-9: teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, children's theater, or similar settings where kids showed up because of you
• At least 2 years of that experience teaching reading in grades K-3, within the last 5 years
• Completed structured-literacy training: LETRS, IMSE, Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, Fundations, UFLI, CERI, Neuhaus, SIPPS, Really Great Reading, or similar; or a master's in reading or literacy
• Bachelor's degree in any subject. A teaching certificate is not required
• Comfortable spending about 90% of your day guiding students through app-based learning, workshops, and campus routines, and 10% on reading sessions
• Willing to work with all K-3 students, not only struggling readers
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• You can maintain engagement with a room of six-year-olds using only your presence and a well-designed activity
• Exhausted children consistently returned to your after-school or summer program
• Experience with reading platforms (Amira, Lexia, i-Ready) or diagnostic assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb)
• You can describe a specific child whose decoding skills you repaired, and explain your methodology
• You have worked in a non-traditional school model: charter, micro-school, Montessori, or hybrid

Pay

$100,000/year salary paid weekly.

Benefits

Health, dental, and vision coverage from day one.

Schedule

40-hour work week across five days, on-site at a single Alpha campus.

Active openings: AZ - Phoenix; OK - Oklahoma City and Tulsa; TX - Dallas, Fort Worth (Keller), Plano, and The Woodlands; UT - Park City (Salt Lake City). Interested in a different Alpha location? Submit your application, indicate your preferred campus, and we will direct you to the appropriate opening.

This is a full-time, W2 employee position. All roles are year-long positions.