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

On-site position at an Alpha School campus: Phoenix, Arizona; Tampa, Florida; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Austin, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), Texas; Plano, Texas; Park City (Salt Lake City), Utah.

About the role

You have dedicated years to becoming proficient in structured literacy. When a student makes a reading error, you can immediately identify the underlying phonemic weakness. Yet you have also witnessed how the surrounding system underutilizes that skill: classrooms with over 25 students, inflexible pacing calendars, standardized programs that disregard what your assessments reveal. If you have ever considered, "I could accelerate these children's progress significantly if I could simply teach according to the data," this opportunity is for you.

Alpha School's 2-Hour Learning framework integrates AI-adaptive technology with specialized human teaching. Students progress through academic content autonomously using individualized applications. There are no traditional lectures, printed textbooks, or mandated pacing schedules. Your focus centers on the one area where human expertise remains essential: targeted reading workshops in small groups, where you create and implement structured literacy lessons matched to each learner's phonics and decoding stage. You will utilize live AI-generated performance analytics to structure each session, modify instruction dynamically, and track outcomes through fluency improvements, accuracy gains, and decoding progress.

In addition to reading workshops, you will facilitate motivation sessions that sustain K-2 student engagement with their learning objectives. You will serve as their guide, their advocate, the individual who recognizes their identity, their passions, and precisely where they stand in their literacy development. The objective: 100% of students achieve their weekly targets, and over 90% identify their Guide as someone they trust and enjoy learning with.

This role emphasizes measurable results you can observe and track weekly, not content coverage. As Alpha opens additional campuses, the systems you develop will serve as the blueprint for reading instruction across the network. If you are convinced that structured literacy achieves optimal impact when personalized, informed by data, and taught by someone who authentically connects with young learners, this role transforms that conviction into daily practice.

Responsibilities

• Creating and facilitating small-group reading workshops centered on systematic phonics, decoding strategies, and writing for K-2 learners
• Conducting and evaluating running records to determine each student's current reading level and inform focused instruction
• Analyzing AI-generated student performance metrics to modify instruction dynamically, not only during scheduled planning periods
• Leading motivation sessions that support students in progressing through their learning applications and achieving 100% of weekly targets
• Customizing instruction within targeted reading groups according to individual learning profiles and requirements
• Provide structured literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading performance across phonics, fluency, and decoding skills

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Implementing a commercial reading program or scripted lesson plans (you create your own instruction using student data)
• Presenting lessons to an entire class (all teaching occurs in small, targeted groups)
• Instructing academic content areas (students work through math, science, and other subjects independently using adaptive applications)
• Operating within a conventional classroom schedule with bells, transitions, and uniform pacing expectations
• Evaluating homework assignments or issuing report cards (student advancement is monitored through application data and running records)

Requirements

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Master's degree in reading instruction OR structured literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, LETRS, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent)
• 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment using systematic phonics or structured literacy, within the past 5 years
• Experience creating original reading lessons (not exclusively following a published program)
• Willingness to incorporate AI and adaptive learning platforms for instructional planning and student data interpretation
• Willingness to work on-site at an Alpha School campus in one of the specified locations
• Willingness to instruct all K-2 students, not exclusively struggling readers
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience incorporating AI or adaptive learning platforms (e.g., Lexia, i-Ready, Amira) for instructional planning or student data interpretation
• Demonstrated ability to quantify and communicate specific reading outcomes from interventions (e.g., fluency improvements in WCPM, decoding level progression)
• Experience teaching in non-traditional or innovative educational environments (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
• Fluency in both English and Spanish

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

$100,000 annual full-time salary, distributed weekly.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision benefits begin immediately
• Relocation assistance available

Schedule

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available.