Description
The greatest support you can offer a student who completes 99% of their weekly target is to insist they reach 100%. Not out of indifference, but because you know they are capable, and accepting less is the true failure.
You are not a traditional teacher. At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-driven adaptive software. No classroom lectures. No printed textbooks. No marker boards. Motivation and life-skill development—usually treated as afterthoughts in conventional schools—become your primary focus here.
Consider a typical Tuesday. You spend half your day facilitating one-hour sessions for K-8 groups on subjects like public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. The remainder of your time is spent working individually or in small clusters with those same students, reviewing their Coachbot data, and driving each one to complete 100% of their weekly application targets using school currency, competitive leaderboards, and the trust you've cultivated to overcome resistance.
Your quarterly performance hinges on three metrics: all students in your cohort achieve their weekly app targets, all students pass the Test2Pass mastery verification for every workshop, and 90% or more report they love you. Failing to meet any of these three means falling short of the role's expectations.
The reward comes the day a student who declared in September that they were terrible at math asks you to increase their goal.
This is a full-time, in-person position at one of Alpha's campus locations. We recruit on a national basis, so listings may appear in neighboring cities where we do not yet operate a campus.
Current openings at this compensation level are 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 prefer a different Alpha location, submit your application and specify your desired campus—we will review you for the relevant opening.
If you have coached youth athletics, managed a summer camp cabin, or tutored a student on the verge of quitting, the final step before receiving an offer is a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that experience is what excites you most, apply today.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for K-8 groups on public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange
- Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions designed to drive every student to 100% completion of their weekly app targets, using Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive framework (school currency, leaderboards)
- Delivering the Test2Pass mastery evaluation for each life skill, then providing additional coaching to any student who does not pass until mastery is achieved
- Modifying the workshop curriculum and creating new sessions when you identify a need, ensuring the content resonates with both kindergarteners and eighth graders
- Serving as both the adult who maintains 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 assignments; academic instruction is handled by the apps
- Administering standardized test preparation or being held accountable for class-wide test results
- Managing parent meetings, email correspondence, and concerns; campus leadership handles all parent-facing responsibilities
- Controlling behavior in groups of 30 students; cohorts are intentionally small and behavior support is delivered through 1:1 coaching
- Passively supervising children at computers; motivation work here is proactive and relational
Key responsibilities
Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting they loved school.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work on-site 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 assistance available
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline
- At least 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students: classroom instruction, tutoring, athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth program coordination
- Comfortable allowing adaptive learning software to manage academic instruction while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching
- A personal history of high achievement—academic, athletic, or professional—that has made upholding rigorous standards a natural practice rather than an affected stance
- Stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Youth sports coaching, debate, theater, camp leadership, or after-school program experience where you held personal accountability for students achieving a defined goal
- Background teaching social-emotional learning (SEL) or life-skills curricula
- Ability to name a specific student who transitioned from disengaged or resistant to fully invested, and describe the precise actions you took
- Regular use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini
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