Early Elementary Teacher, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

About the role

The role involves coaching students through app-based core learning, diagnosing and closing reading gaps, leading morning launch, life-skills workshops, and check-chart activities.

Responsibilities

• Spotting who is stuck and asking the question that unblocks them
• Running short structured-literacy sessions with two to four students
• Diagnosing phonics or decoding gaps from running records and fluency probes, teaching a sequence you designed, and checking for transfer
• 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
• Staying with your students through lunch, recess, and closing, meeting frustration and refusal with a plan for that child

Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at a campus 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

• You held a six-year-old's attention with nothing but your energy and an engaging activity
• You kept tired children coming back to an after-school reading program
• Parents asked for you by name
• You have experience with reading platforms (Amira, Lexia, i-Ready) or diagnostic assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb)
• You can name a child whose decoding you fixed and how

Qualifications

Absolutely no qualifications needed. This is a role for those who can bring real student impact and a passion for helping children succeed.

Skills

Strong observational skills, ability to adapt to individual student needs, patience, and strong communication skills are essential.

Benefits

Immediate access to benefits including paid time off, health insurance, and retirement plans.

Pay

$120,000 USD/year, paid weekly.

Schedule

Full-time, on-site role, five days a week, at an Alpha campus.