Description
The most powerful support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their weekly target is to hold the line and insist they finish. Not out of indifference, but because you know they can complete the full measure—and accepting less is the true setback.
You are not a classroom teacher. At Alpha, academic content is delivered through AI-powered adaptive learning platforms. No lectures. No textbooks. No whiteboard instruction. Motivation and life skills—typically afterthoughts in traditional schools—are your entire focus.
Imagine a typical Tuesday. Half your day is spent facilitating one-hour workshops for a K-8 group on topics like public speaking, sustained attention, and constructive feedback exchange. The other half, you work directly with those same students individually or in small groups, review their Coachbot data, and drive each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets using school currency, leaderboards, and the trust you've cultivated to overcome resistance.
Your quarterly performance boils down to three metrics: all students in your cohort meet their weekly app goals, all students pass the Test2Pass mastery check for every workshop, and 90% or more report that they love you. Falling short on any one of these three is falling short of the role.
The reward is the moment a student who claimed in September they were terrible at math asks you to increase their goal.
This is a full-time, on-site position at one of Alpha's campuses. We recruit nationally, so job boards may list this opportunity in nearby cities that do not yet have a campus.
Current openings for this salary tier are available in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, Houston, and Brownsville, TX; Springfield, MA; and Park City, UT.
If you're interested in another Alpha campus, apply anyway and indicate your preferred location—we'll consider you for the appropriate opening.
If you have coached youth sports, led a cabin at camp, or tutored a kid who wanted to quit, the final step before an offer is a full day on campus coaching real Alpha students. If that day is the part you want most, apply today.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, sustained focus, and constructive feedback exchange
- Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student to 100% of their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards)
- Delivering the Test2Pass mastery assessment for each life skill, then re-coaching any student who falls short until they achieve mastery
- Refining the workshop playbook and creating new sessions as needed to ensure the same content resonates with both kindergarteners and 8th graders
- Serving as both the adult who upholds the standard and the adult your students choose to confide in
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering whiteboard lectures, designing math and reading lesson plans, or grading homework; academic instruction is handled by the apps
- Conducting standardized test prep or being accountable for class-wide test scores
- Managing parent conferences, emails, and complaints; campus leadership owns all parent-facing communication
- Managing behavior for 30 students at once; cohorts are small and behavior work here is 1:1 coaching
- Passively supervising students at computers; motivation here is active and interpersonal
Key responsibilities
Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort meets their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year saying they loved school.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work in person at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, Houston, and Brownsville, TX; Springfield, MA; or Park City, UT - relocation support provided
- Bachelor's degree in any subject
- At least 3 years working directly with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students: classroom teaching, tutoring, athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth program work
- Comfortable allowing adaptive learning software to handle academic instruction while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching
- A personal track record of high achievement—academic, athletic, or professional—that made upholding a rigorous standard a habit rather than a posture
- Stage presence strong enough to command a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without raising your voice
- Legal right to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Youth athletics coaching, debate, drama, camp leadership, or after-school program work where you were directly accountable for kids achieving a specific goal
- Experience teaching social-emotional learning (SEL) or durable-skills curricula
- A student you can name who transitioned from resistant or disengaged to fully engaged, and the specific action you took
- Daily use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini
You will be working for
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