Early Elementary Teacher, Alpha - $120,000/year USD
About Alpha
Alpha is reimagining 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. Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused—for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.
What You Will Be Doing
- Coaching students through app-based core learning: spotting who is stuck, asking the question that unblocks them, holding the daily goal
- Running short structured-literacy sessions with two to four students; diagnosing a phonics or decoding gap 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
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Writing lesson plans for a full class every night—your planning is narrow and diagnostic
- Running a pull-out caseload from a quiet intervention room—reading groups are about a tenth of your week and happen inside the day
- Delivering a published curriculum or scripted program with fidelity to someone else's sequence
- Writing IEPs, 504 plans, chasing testing paperwork, or sitting on curriculum committees
- Slipping away to a prep block while someone else covers your students—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 stopping them from getting there alone.
Basic Requirements
- Willing to work on-site at a campus 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 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
- 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
Current Openings
CA – Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Malibu, Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, and South Bay (Los Angeles)
CT – Greenwich
IL – Chicago
MA – Boston
NY – New York City
WA – Seattle
Interested in a different Alpha campus? Apply anyway and name your preferred location, and we will route you to the right opening.
Pay
$120,000 USD/year, paid weekly. Full-time W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits. All roles are year-long positions.