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

About the role

“This is not a school that is replacing teachers. This is not a threat to teachers in any way, shape, or form. This is reimagining what a teacher can be.” — Sam DePalo, Lead Guide, Alpha Fort Worth Texas

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real‑world skills. Students finish their entire academic core in about two hours each morning, working independently on AI‑adaptive apps — no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing guide. The rest of the day is spent on life‑skills workshops. Adults are called Guides rather than teachers; they are not delivering content but ensuring students actually do the work, want to do the work, and get unstuck when the app cannot do it for them. Guides stay with the same students from morning launch to closing, observing core learning, workshops, lunch, recess, and check‑chart time.

Alpha is opening campuses across the country, and the bottleneck is people who can do this well. Those who prove it help hire and train the Guides who come next and write the programs other campuses run on. Some move into a lead role coaching a team, where the judgment behind the literacy work becomes the whole job.

Current openings: AZ – Phoenix and Scottsdale; TX – Dallas, Fort Worth (Keller), Plano, and The Woodlands; UT – Park City (Salt Lake City). Interested in a different Alpha campus? Apply anyway, name your preferred location, and we will route you to the right opening.

Responsibilities

• Run short structured‑literacy workshops with two to four students: diagnose a phonics or decoding gap from running records and fluency probes, teach a sequence you designed for it, and check that it transferred.
• Coach students through app‑based core learning: see who has stalled, ask the question that unsticks them, and hold the daily goal.
• Lead morning launch, life‑skills workshops, and check‑chart activities that keep six‑year‑olds moving.
• Drive students to their weekly app goals with school currency, leaderboards, and gamification pitched at their age.
• Stay with students through lunch, recess, and closing, meeting refusal and frustration with a plan built for that particular child.
• Get every K‑3 student to their daily learning goals and close the reading gaps that keep them from getting there on their own.
• Planning is narrow and diagnostic: determine who needs you tomorrow and what will actually move them; no full‑class lesson planning each night.
• Reading groups are roughly a tenth of your week and happen inside the day, not beside it; no pull‑out caseload from a quiet intervention room.
• Do not deliver a published program with fidelity to someone else's scope and sequence.
• Do not write IEPs or 504 plans, chase testing paperwork, or sit on curriculum committees.
• Do not hand students off while you take a prep block; you are with