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

About the Role

At Alpha, academic work is completed by students in only two hours each day through adaptive learning technology. This structure allows Guides to dedicate their energy to life-changing work: cultivating confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to embrace difficult challenges. You won't find yourself presenting lessons at the front of a classroom. Instead, you'll be coaching students as they work through obstacles, recognizing their progress, and demonstrating what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic support. You'll oversee a single K-3 cohort band—either the Kindergarten-1st grade group or the 2nd-3rd grade group.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitate dynamic life-skills workshops that guide K-3 students toward mastery of communication, concentration, feedback reception, and other enduring skills through hands-on engagement rather than traditional instruction.
• Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to maintain every child's progress toward challenging weekly learning targets.
• Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2Pass framework, continuing to coach students until they show genuine comprehension—not merely attendance.
• Adjust your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, whether that involves songs, physical activity, and narrative techniques for younger learners or greater autonomy and responsibility for older students.
• Establish relationships where students feel sufficiently supported to push beyond their perceived limitations.

What You Won't Be Doing

• Presenting academic content at a whiteboard. Students complete academics using adaptive software.
• Creating curriculum materials from the ground up. You'll refine and customize proven frameworks rather than designing lessons independently.
• Observing students as they work quietly on computers. Your function is active coaching, encouragement, and engagement.
• Reducing standards when students face difficulties. Success is achieved by supporting students to meet the goal, not by adjusting the goal downward.
• Overseeing homework assignments, grading student work, or managing routine parent correspondence.

Kindergarten Teacher Key Responsibilities

• Develop a K-3 cohort of students who are enthusiastic about attending school, reliably meet ambitious learning objectives, and acquire the life skills that equip them to flourish well beyond their elementary years.

Basic Requirements

• Available to work on-site at one of Alpha's campuses. Current positions are open in La Jolla (San Diego); Orange County (Lake Forest); Los Angeles (South Bay, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu); San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco, Palo Alto, Piedmont); Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton; Miami; Miami Beach; Palm Beach Gardens; Chicago; Boston; New York City; and Kirkland (Seattle area). Relocation support is available.
• Bachelor's degree in any field.
• A minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4-9 in contexts such as teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or comparable settings.
• Demonstrated success in motivating young children to reach demanding goals, with concrete examples of your contributions.
• Ease with using AI-powered learning tools while directing your own efforts toward coaching, motivation, and life-skill cultivation.
• The capacity to combine warmth with consistently high expectations.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth athletics, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori education, progressive schooling, or high-engagement after-school initiatives.
• Personal history of reaching ambitious goals in academics, athletics, or professional pursuits.
• Exceptional storytelling or performance abilities that effortlessly engage young children's attention.
• Track record of transforming hesitant or reserved children into confident, active contributors.

About Alpha

Join the team building school around student growth. Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members. Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience. A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It's for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it. Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

Pay

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The compensation level is $60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly.