Elementary Learning Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

We Are Hiring

Alpha is hiring an Elementary Learning Coach to join our team. This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits.

About the Role

Alpha is a company that reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. As an Elementary Learning Coach, you will be responsible for:

• Running short structured-literacy workshops with two to four students
• Coaching students through app-based core learning
• Leading morning launch, life-skills workshops, and check-chart activities
• 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 Will Be Doing

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

Nightly full-class lesson planning 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

Basic Requirements

• 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

• 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
• 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

Benefits

The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly.

Application

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