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

About the role

At Alpha, K-3 students complete academic learning through AI-driven apps in two hours each day. Your role as a Guide involves leading one cohort band—either K-1 or 2-3—and adjusting your energy, pacing, and workshops to fit that group. There are no lectures or worksheets; instead, half your day is spent running one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive feedback. The other half is spent conducting one-on-one and small-group motivation sessions to ensure students stay on track for their weekly app goals.

Responsibilities

• Conduct one-hour life-skills workshops for K-3 cohorts on public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, adapting the playbook to your group rather than following it verbatim.
• Conduct daily one-on-one and small-group motivation sessions that ensure every student stays on track for weekly app goals, using Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive systems (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual relationship you have built with each child.
• Deliver the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based assessment, for each life skill, and support students who do not pass until they achieve mastery.
• Engage with kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, stories, movement, and playfulness, while holding second and third graders to concrete, measurable expectations.
• Be the warm adult kids are excited to see at drop-off AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less.

Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, Miami Beach, or Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation support provided).
• Bachelor's degree in any subject.
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 9 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
• A specific example you can describe of motivating a young child to a hard goal: the goal, what you did, and the outcome.
• Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals.
• Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture.
• Natural performer's presence with little kids: the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movement.
• Track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants.

Basic Requirements

• Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching.
• Willingness to hold high standards with students even when they push back.
• Likely to be legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals.
• Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture.
• Natural performer's presence with little kids: the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movement.
• Track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants.