Learning Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

About the Role

You remain with the same students throughout the day—morning opening, core work on the learning apps, lunch, recess, life-skills sessions, and closing. By Tuesday, you will identify which student is masking comprehension. When you locate the gap, you do not wait for administrative approval or team meetings. You work with two to four students, deliver the fifteen-minute sequence you designed for that specific gap, and observe it close. The learning apps handle core instruction, so you are not drafting lesson plans for twenty-four children late at night. You determine who requires your intervention and what will advance them, and you maintain the daily objective without compromise. Parents review weekly data and will expect you to identify the gap.

Alpha is launching campuses nationwide. Those who demonstrate competence in this role help recruit and train incoming staff, and establish the curriculum standards other campuses adopt. Some transition into a lead role coaching that team, where the judgment underlying the literacy work becomes the primary function.

This is a full-time, on-site position, five days per week, at an Alpha campus. Current openings are in CA (Beverly Hills, La Jolla, Malibu, Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica), CT (Greenwich), MA (Boston), NY (New York City), and WA (Seattle).

Responsibilities

• Guiding students through app-based core learning: identifying who is stuck, asking the question that moves them forward, maintaining the daily objective.
• Conducting short structured-literacy sessions with two to four students. Identifying a phonics or decoding gap from running records and fluency probes, delivering a sequence you created, and verifying transfer.
• Facilitating morning launch, life-skills workshops, and check-chart activities that keep six-year-olds engaged.
• Motivating students toward their weekly app goals using school currency, leaderboards, and gamification.
• Remaining with your students through lunch, recess, and closing, responding to frustration and refusal with a plan tailored to that child.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Drafting lesson plans for a full class every night. Your planning is targeted and diagnostic.
• Managing a pull-out caseload from a separate intervention room. Reading groups represent about a tenth of your week and occur within the daily routine.
• Implementing a published curriculum or scripted program with adherence to another's sequence.
• Completing IEPs, 504 plans, managing testing paperwork, or participating in curriculum committees.
• Stepping away to a prep period while someone else supervises your students. You are with them from launch to closing.

Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at a campus listed above, 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.
• 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.
• Bachelor's degree in any subject. A teaching certificate is not required.
• Comfortable spending about 90% of your day guiding students through app-based learning, workshops, and campus routines, and 10% on reading sessions.
• Willing to work with all K-3 students, not only struggling readers.
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• You held a six-year-old's attention with nothing but your energy and an engaging activity.
• You kept tired children coming back to an after-school reading program.
• Parents asked for you by name.
• Experience with reading platforms (Amira, Lexia, i-Ready) or diagnostic assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb).
• You can name a child whose decoding you fixed and how.

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

The compensation level for this role is $120,000 USD per year, paid weekly.

Benefits

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