Homeroom Teacher, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

About the role

This is not a school that is replacing teachers. This is not a threat to teachers in any way, shape, or form. This is reimagining what a teacher can be. Alpha is hiring guides who work with the same students all day—morning launch, core learning on apps, lunch, recess, life‑skills workshops, and closing. You diagnose gaps, run short structured‑literacy sessions with 2‑4 students, and use app‑based core instruction so you are not writing nightly lesson plans for a full class. Successful guides help hire and train future teammates, shape curriculum standards, and may move into lead coaching roles.

Responsibilities

• Coach students through app‑based core learning: spot who is stuck, ask the question that unblocks them, hold the daily goal.
• Run short structured‑literacy sessions with two to four students: diagnose a phonics or decoding gap from running records and fluency probes, teach a sequence you designed, and check for transfer.
• Lead morning launch, life‑skills workshops, and check‑chart activities that keep six‑year‑olds moving.
• Drive students to their weekly app goals with school currency, leaderboards, and gamification.
• Stay with students through lunch, recess, and closing, meeting frustration and refusal with a plan for that child.
• Get every K‑3 student to their daily learning goals and close the reading gaps stopping them from getting there alone.

Requirements

• Willing to work on‑site at a listed campus (relocation support available).
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4‑9 in 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/literacy.
• Bachelor's degree in any subject (teaching certificate 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 have 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 have 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.

Benefits

• Health coverage (medical, dental, vision).
• Life and disability insurance.
• Voluntary benefits, tax‑advantaged FSA, HSA, and commuter accounts.
• 401(k) plan.
• Paid time off and parental leave.
• One‑time relocation allowance.

Pay

$120,000 USD per year, paid weekly.

Schedule

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