Reading Teacher, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

We Are Hiring

Alpha is hiring a Reading Specialist to join our team. This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits.

About the role

You will be part of a dynamic team that reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. You will work with students from kindergarten to third grade, helping them reach their daily learning goals and close reading gaps.

Responsibilities

• Running short structured-literacy workshops with two to four students
• Coaching students through app-based core learning
• Leading morning launch, life-skills workshops, and check-chart activities
• Driving students to their weekly app goals with school currency, leaderboards, and gamification pitched at their age
• Staying with your students through lunch, recess, and closing, meeting refusal and frustration with a plan built for that particular child

Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at one of the campuses 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 Requirements

• You can keep a room of six-year-olds engaged with nothing but your energy and a good activity
• Tired children kept coming back to your after-school or summer program
• You can name a specific child whose decoding you fixed, and say how you did it
• You have worked in a non-traditional school model: charter, micro-school, Montessori, or hybrid

Benefits

• $100,000/year salaried, paid weekly
• Day-one health, dental, and vision benefits
• 40 hours/week, five days a week, on-site at one Alpha campus, with relocation support