Early Elementary Teacher, Alpha - $100,000/year USD
Crossover · Salt Lake City, UT · 1 mo ago
Education$100k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, scam warning, duplicated lines, application instructions.
We need to parse the posting.
Key content:
- Quote from Sam DePalo (maybe not needed but it's substantive? It's a quote about role. Could be careful: It's not a boilerplate; it's part of description. Could be included in About the role or maybe a intro paragraph.
- "$100,000/year salaried, paid weekly, with day-one health, dental, and vision benefits" => Pay and Benefits.
- "40 hours/week, five days a week, on-site at one Alpha campus, with relocation support" => Schedule and maybe location.
- "You can hear a miscue..." etc: description of role.
- "You will use that here every day..." etc.
- "What's harder is the moment right after..." etc.
- "Alpha looks nothing like the school you trained in." etc.
- "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."
- "The adults here are called Guides rather than teachers..."
- "You are with the same students from morning launch to closing: core learning, workshops, lunch, recess, check-chart time."
- "By the second week, you will know which student is faking fluency..."
- "When you find the gap, nothing stands between you and fixing it. No referral, no committee, no waiting for a slot to open. You pull two to four kids and run a fifteen-minute workshop built for that exact error pattern — phoneme-grapheme mapping, blending drills, decodable text, whatever it calls for — check that it transferred, and send them back to work on their own."
- "You are not writing plans for two dozen children at 11 pm at night. Your planning is narrow and diagnostic: who needs you tomorrow, and what will actually move them. And you hold the daily goal without quietly lowering it, because parents see weekly data and will ask you to name the gap."
- "Alpha is opening campuses across the country, and the bottleneck is people who can do this well. The ones 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. That path is earned, not handed to you on day one. Your resume will not decide this. If what makes you good at this has never fit neatly on paper, that is exactly the point."
- "Role We recruit nationally, so job boards may display this role in nearby cities that do not have a campus. 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."
- "What You Will Be Doing" bullet list:
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" bullet list:
Lesson planning for a full class every night 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" maybe heading? But we shouldn't repeat job title as heading. The page already shows it. So we can skip.
- "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" list:
Willing to work on-site at one of the campuses listed above, 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" list:
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
- "About Alpha" paragraph.
- "Working with us" paragraph: This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits (link). All roles are year-long positions. The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic. Crossover Job Code: LJ-4849-US-SaltLake-EarlyElementar.001
We need to remove Job ID etc. So we should not include the Crossover Job Code line. Also remove the link maybe? It's part of benefits description; we can keep mention of immediate access to benefits but not the URL? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. The link is a URL; it's substantive? It's a reference. Might be considered boilerplate? It's a support article link. Might be okay to keep but it's a URL. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The link is not those. It's a reference to benefits details. Could keep but maybe better to keep the sentence without URL? The sentence: "This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits (https://support.crossover.com/article/7581-w2-benefits-u-s-paychex-paid-only)." The URL is part of the sentence. If we remove it, we lose detail. But maybe it's okay to keep the URL as part of the sentence. It's not navigation etc. I'd keep it.
Also "All roles are year-long positions." That's substantive.
"The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD/year." Already covered.
"The payment period is weekly." Already covered.
"Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic." That's a reference; could keep.
Now we need to decide sections.
We have:
- About the role: could include the quote and description of Alpha's model, what the role entails generally.
- Responsibilities: could be the "What You Will Be Doing" list.
- Requirements: could be Basic Requirements.
- Qualifications: maybe the Nice-to-have Requirements? Or we could combine Basic Requirements as Qualifications and Nice-to-have as Skills? But we need to follow headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We need to avoid thin sections. So we need to decide which sections have enough content.
We have:
- About the role: we have the quote, description of Alpha's model, maybe the "Role We recruit nationally..." paragraph.
- Responsibilities: the "What You Will Be Doing" list (5 items). Good.
- Requirements: Basic Requirements list (8 items). Good.
- Qualifications: maybe the Nice-to-have Requirements list (5 items). Good.
- Skills: maybe we could extract skills from responsibilities? But we might not need a separate Skills section if content thin. Could combine Nice-to-have as Skills? But we already used Nice-to-have as Qualifications. Could instead treat Nice-to-have as Skills, and Qualifications as Basic Requirements? Actually Basic Requirements are more like qualifications. Nice-to-have are skills/preferred. So we could set:
Requirements = Basic Requirements
Qualifications = Nice-to-have Requirements
Skills = maybe we could list specific skills like "structured-literacy training", "diagnostic assessment", "app-based learning coaching", etc. But we might not have explicit skills list separate. Could skip Skills section if not enough specific content. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could omit Skills if not enough.
- Benefits: we have day-one health, dental, vision benefits, immediate access to benefits, maybe relocation support? Actually relocation support is under schedule? It's a benefit. Also "immediate access to benefits". Also "All roles are year-long positions." That's not a benefit but maybe schedule? We'll treat Benefits section: day-one health, dental, vision benefits; immediate access to benefits; relocation support; maybe year-long positions? Not exactly benefit but could be included.
- Pay: $100,000/year salaried, paid weekly.
- Schedule: 40 hours/week, five days a week, on-site at one Alpha campus.
We also have location list: AZ - Phoenix and Scottsdale; TX - Dallas, Fort Worth (Keller), Plano, and The Woodlands; UT - Park City (Salt Lake City). That's location info; could be part of About the role or maybe a separate section? Not in headings list. Could include in About the role.
We must not repeat job title as heading. So we won't have a heading for Early Elementary Teacher.
We must not put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. So we will drop the Crossover Job Code line. We must remove duplicated lines. Ensure we don't repeat same content. Now produce HTML fragment. We'll need to wrap sections in appropriate tags:
for section headings. Inside each section, use
for prose,
- for lists.
We need to ensure we don't include any markdown code fences.
Let's craft.
First, maybe an introductory paragraph before sections? Could be part of About the role.
We'll start with
About the role
then acontaining the quote and description. Quote: “This is not a school that is replacing teachers. This is not a threat to teachers in any way