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

Full-time, on-site position at an Alpha campus with relocation assistance available.

About Alpha

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. Students complete their full academic core in approximately two hours each morning, progressing independently through AI-adaptive applications—no traditional instruction, no printed curriculum, no unified pacing calendar. The remainder of each day focuses on life-skills instruction. Adults in this environment are designated Guides rather than teachers: you will not be delivering curriculum. Your role is ensuring students engage with their work, remain motivated, and overcome obstacles when the technology cannot support them.

Responsibilities

• Deliver 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.
• Support students through app-based core instruction: identify when students have stalled, ask questions that facilitate problem-solving, and maintain daily performance expectations.
• Facilitate morning opening routines, life-skills instruction, and progress-tracking activities that sustain engagement for six-year-olds.
• Motivate students toward their weekly application goals using school currency systems, competitive leaderboards, and age-appropriate gamification.
• Remain with your students throughout lunch, recess, and dismissal, responding to resistance and frustration with individualized strategies designed for each child.
• Ensure every K-3 student reaches their daily learning targets and eliminate the reading deficits that prevent them from progressing independently.

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.

Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at one of the campuses listed: AZ - Phoenix, OK - Oklahoma City and Tulsa, TX - Dallas, Fort Worth (Keller), Plano, and The Woodlands, UT - Park City (Salt Lake City).
• 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.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage from day one.

Pay

$100,000/year salary paid weekly.

Schedule

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