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

At Alpha, academic work is completed by students in only two hours per day through adaptive learning technology. This structure allows Guides to concentrate on transformational work: cultivating confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to take on difficult challenges. Your day will not involve standing before a class delivering instruction. Instead, you will coach students through obstacles, acknowledge their successes, and demonstrate what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic belief in their potential.

You will oversee one K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half your time is dedicated to facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remaining half involves coaching students individually and in small groups, leveraging learning analytics to ensure every child progresses toward challenging weekly objectives. Every moment counts. Students should emerge from your workshops more skilled than when they entered and finish your coaching sessions convinced they can accomplish more than they previously believed.

This position is not suited for someone seeking to deliver curriculum or oversee a traditional classroom. It is designed for someone who enjoys inspiring young children, excels with measurable results, and is convinced the right coach can alter a child's path. If you have motivated kids as a teacher, coach, camp counselor, youth leader, or performer, you will discover a distinctly different kind of classroom environment here.

This is a full-time, on-site position at one of Alpha's campuses. Current vacancies exist in Palo Alto, Los Angeles (South Bay), Malibu, Orange County (Lake Forest), San Francisco, and Santa Monica, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton and Miami, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; and Seattle (Kirkland), WA. If you are interested in a different Alpha campus, submit your application and indicate your preferred location—we will consider you for the relevant opening.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate compelling life-skills workshops that enable K-3 students to develop communication, concentration, feedback reception, and other lasting skills through active engagement rather than passive listening.
• Provide one-on-one and small group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation systems, and strong rapport to ensure every child remains on course for challenging weekly learning targets.
• Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2Pass framework, coaching students until they exhibit genuine comprehension—not merely attendance.
• Adjust your coaching methods to match the developmental stage of your cohort, whether that involves songs, physical movement, and narrative for younger children or greater autonomy and responsibility for older students.
• Establish the type of relationships where students feel sufficiently supported to push beyond what they believed they could accomplish.
• Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are enthusiastic about attending school, regularly meet challenging learning goals, and acquire the life skills that equip them to succeed well beyond elementary school.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering academic instruction from a whiteboard. Students complete academics using adaptive software.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up. You will refine and customize proven playbooks rather than designing lessons.
• Observing students as they work quietly on computers. Your function is active coaching, encouragement, and engagement.
• Reducing expectations when students face difficulties. Success is achieved by helping students meet the goal, not by lowering the goal.
• Overseeing homework, grading assignments, or handling standard parent correspondence.

Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at one of Alpha's campuses. Relocation assistance is available.
• Bachelor's degree in any subject.
• At least 3 years of experience working directly with children ages 4-9 through teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or similar environments.
• Experience facilitating group activities for young children, with a concrete example of the structure or routine you used and how you maintained group engagement.
• A demonstrated history of motivating young children to accomplish challenging goals, with specific examples of your impact.
• A concrete example of modifying your approach based on feedback and the outcome.
• Comfort utilizing AI-powered learning while directing your own efforts toward coaching, motivation, and life-skill development.
• The capacity to combine warmth with consistent expectations.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience in youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori, progressive education, or high-engagement after-school programs.
• Personal experience accomplishing ambitious goals in academics, athletics, or your career.
• Exceptional storytelling or performance abilities that naturally attract the attention of young children.
• Evidence of helping hesitant or reserved children become confident, engaged participants.

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.

Benefits

This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits.

Pay

The compensation level for this role is $120,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly.