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

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. 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.

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

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 & Schedule

• $100,000/year salary paid weekly
• Health, dental, and vision coverage from day one
• 40-hour work week across five days, on-site at a single Alpha campus
• Relocation assistance available