Learning Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD
About the role
As a Learning Coach (Guide) at Alpha, you will stay with the same K‑3 students from morning launch through closing, supporting their independent work on AI‑adaptive core‑learning apps, leading short structured‑literacy workshops, facilitating life‑skills sessions, and guiding them through lunch, recess and check‑chart activities. Your role blends guiding (≈70% of the day) with focused reading‑specialist interventions (≈30%) to diagnose gaps, teach targeted sequences, and help students transfer skills while remaining part of the learning community. Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real‑world skills, offering six‑figure compensation for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.
Responsibilities
- Run short structured‑literacy workshops with two to four students — diagnose a phonics or decoding gap from running records and fluency probes, teach a sequence you designed for it, and check that it transferred
- Coach students through app‑based core learning: see who has stalled, ask the question that unsticks them, hold the daily goal
- 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 pitched at their age
- Stay with your students through lunch, recess, and closing, meeting refusal and frustration with a plan built for that particular child
- Get every K‑3 student to their daily learning goals and close the reading gaps that keep them from getting there on their own
Requirements
- Willing to work on‑site at one of the Alpha campuses, 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
- Comfortable spending about 70% of your day guiding students through app‑based learning, workshops, and campus routines, and about 30% on focused reading interventions integrated into the school day
- Willing to work with all K‑3 students, not only struggling readers
- Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in any subject (a teaching certificate is not required)
- 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
Skills
- Ability to keep a room of six‑year‑olds engaged with nothing but your energy and a good activity
- Experience where 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)
- Ability to name a specific child whose decoding you fixed, and explain how you did it
- Experience working in a non‑traditional school model: charter, micro‑school, Montessori, or hybrid
Benefits
- Day‑one health, dental, and vision benefits
- Immediate access to benefits as a W2 employee
- Relocation support
- Year‑long, full‑time position