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

About the Role

Alpha is reimagining what a teacher can be. This is not a school that is replacing teachers, and it is not a threat to teachers in any way. This is reimagining what a teacher can be. The role is for an on-site Guide at one of the Alpha campuses. Adults are called Guides rather than teachers, and that is not a euphemism: you are not delivering content. You are making sure your students actually do the work, want to do the work, and get unstuck when the app can't do it for them.

What You Will Be Doing

• Running short structured-literacy workshops with two to four students — diagnosing a phonics or decoding gap from running records and fluency probes, teaching a sequence you designed for it, and checking that it transferred.
• Coaching students through app-based core learning: seeing who has stalled, asking the question that unsticks them, holding the daily goal.
• Leading morning launch, life-skills workshops, and check-chart activities that keep six-year-olds moving.
• Driving students to their weekly app goals with school currency, leaderboards, and gamification pitched at their age.
• Staying with your students through lunch, recess, and closing, meeting refusal and frustration with a plan built for that particular child.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Nightly full-class lesson planning is not part of this role. Your planning is narrow and diagnostic.
• Running a pull-out caseload from a quiet intervention room. Reading groups are roughly a tenth of your week and happen inside the day, not beside it.
• Delivering a published program with fidelity to someone else's scope and sequence.
• Writing IEPs and 504 plans, chasing testing paperwork, or sitting on curriculum committees.
• Handing your students off while you take a prep block. You are with them launch to closing.

Early Elementary Teacher Key Responsibilities

Get every K-3 student to their daily learning goals, and close the reading gaps that keep them from getting there on their own.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at one of the campuses listed below, with relocation support.
• At least 3 years working directly 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 keep a room of six-year-olds engaged with nothing but your energy and a good activity.
• Tired children kept coming back to your after-school or summer program.
• Experience with reading platforms (Amira, Lexia, i-Ready) or diagnostic assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb).
• You can name a specific child whose decoding you fixed, and say how you did it.
• You have worked in a non-traditional school model: charter, micro-school, Montessori, or hybrid.

Pay

$100,000/year salaried, paid weekly.

Benefits

Day-one health, dental, and vision benefits.

Schedule

40 hours/week, five days a week, on-site at one Alpha campus.

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.