Learning Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

"All of my students came back in the top 1% for growth and achievement on their MAP scores." — Sam DePalo, Lead Guide, Alpha Fort Worth Texas Alpha is hiring. $100,000/year salaried, paid weekly, with day-one health, dental, and vision benefits40 hours/week, five days a week, on-site at one Alpha campus, with relocation support You can hear a miscue and name the gap behind it: the vowel team she never locked in, the blend he guesses his way around. You will use that here every day. What's harder is the moment right after. When a six-year-old is stuck in front of you, close to tears, and the right move is almost never to hand them the answer. That's because Alpha looks nothing like the classrooms or programs you've coached reading in before. Students finish their entire academic core in about two hours each morning, working independently on AI-adaptive apps, no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing guide. The rest of the day combines life-skills workshops and targeted reading interventions. The adults here are called Guides rather than teachers or coaches, and that is not a euphemism: you are not delivering content. You are making sure your students do the work, want to do the work, and get unstuck when the app cannot do it for them. You are with the same students from morning launch to closing: core learning, workshops, focused reading sessions, lunch, recess, and check-chart time. About 70% of your day is Guide work and about 30% is reading-specialist work. That balance gives you the whole child, not just a reading score, and lets you turn a diagnosed gap into a visible transfer while the student is still part of the day's learning community. Alpha is opening campuses across the country, and the bottleneck is people who can do both parts well. The ones who prove they can motivate students, hold the standard, and close reading gaps help hire and train the Guides who come next and write the programs other campuses run on. Some move into a lead role coaching a team, where the judgment behind the literacy work becomes the whole job. That path is earned, not handed to you on day one. We recruit nationally, so apply for the campus that fits you best and name your preferred location if you are open to more than one. What You Will Be Doing Running short structured-literacy workshops with two to four students — diagnosing a phonics or decoding gap from running records and fluency probes, teaching a sequence you designed for it, and checking that it transferredCoaching students through app-based core learning: seeing who has stalled, asking the question that unsticks them, holding the daily goalLeading morning launch, life-skills workshops, and check-chart activities that keep six-year-olds movingDriving students to their weekly app goals with school currency, leaderboards, and gamification pitched at their ageStaying with your students through lunch, recess, and closing, meeting refusal and frustration with a plan built for that particular child What You Won’t Be Doing Planning lessons for a full class every night. Your planning is narrow and diagnosticRunning a pull-out caseload from a quiet intervention room. Reading work is about 30% of your week and happens inside the school day, not beside itDelivering a published program with fidelity to someone else's scope and sequenceWriting IEPs and 504 plans, chasing testing paperwork, or sitting on curriculum committeesHanding your students off while you take a prep block. You are with them from launch to closing Learning Coach Key Responsibilities Get every K-3 student to their daily learning goals, and close the reading gaps that keep them from getting there on their own. Basic Requirements Willing to work on-site at one of the campuses listed above, with relocation supportAt 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 youAt least 2 years of that experience teaching reading in grades K-3, within the last 5 yearsCompleted 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 literacyBachelor's degree in any subject. A teaching certificate is not requiredComfortable 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 dayWilling to work with all K-3 students, not only struggling readersLegally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship Nice-to-have Requirements You can keep a room of six-year-olds engaged with nothing but your energy and a good activityTired children kept coming back to your after-school or summer programExperience with reading platforms (Amira, Lexia, i-Ready) or diagnostic assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb)You can name a specific child whose decoding you fixed, and say how you did itYou have worked in a non-traditional school model: charter, micro-school, Montessori, or hybrid 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. There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you! Working with us This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits (https://support.crossover.com/article/7581-w2-benefits-u-s-paychex-paid-only). All roles are year-long positions. The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic. Crossover Job Code: LJ-4849-US-LakeFore-LearningCoach