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

About the role

Alpha is hiring Lead Guides to work on-site at one of our campuses, supporting students in reimagined learning environments. This role is salaried at $100,000 per year, paid weekly, with day-one health, dental, and vision benefits. Relocation support is available.

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: identify 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 using school currency, leaderboards, and age-appropriate gamification
• Stay 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
• Running a pull-out caseload from a quiet intervention room
• Reading groups that happen outside the daily schedule
• 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 students off while you take a prep block

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 U.S. without visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have

• 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

Locations

Current openings: AZ – Phoenix and Scottsdale; OK – Oklahoma City and Tulsa; 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.