Elementary Learning Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD
About the Role
Alpha is hiring Elementary Learning Coaches (Guides) for on-site positions at campuses across the country. This is a salaried role at $100,000/year, paid weekly, with day-one health, dental, and vision benefits. You'll work 40 hours/week, five days a week, on-site at one Alpha campus, with relocation support available.
Guides do not deliver content or lecture. Instead, you coach students through app-based core learning, run structured-literacy workshops, lead life-skills activities, and stay with your students from morning launch through closing. Your planning is narrow and diagnostic: identifying who needs you tomorrow and what will actually move them.
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 — your planning is narrow and diagnostic
- Running a pull-out caseload from a quiet intervention room — reading groups 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
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 US without visa sponsorship
Preferred Qualifications
- 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.
Pay & Benefits
- $100,000 USD/year, paid weekly
- Day-one health, dental, and vision benefits
- Relocation support available
- Full-time, W2 employee position
- Year-long position with immediate access to benefits