Description
The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their weekly target is to insist they finish. Not because you're indifferent, but because you know they're capable of meeting the standard—and lowering it would be the true disservice.
You are not a classroom teacher. At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-powered adaptive platforms. No lectures. No textbooks. No whiteboard instruction. Motivation and life skills—typically relegated to the sidelines in traditional schools—are your central focus here.
Imagine a typical Tuesday. You'll spend half your day facilitating one-hour workshops for K-8 cohorts, covering public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback. The other half, you'll meet with these same students individually or in small groups, review their Coachbot analytics, and guide each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app goals—leveraging school currency, leaderboards, and the trust you've established to overcome resistance.
Your quarterly success hinges on three metrics: every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, every student passes the Test2Pass mastery assessment for each 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 comes when a student who insisted in September that they were bad 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 opening in nearby cities that do not yet have a campus.
Current openings at this salary tier 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're interested in a different Alpha campus, apply regardless and indicate your preferred location—we'll review you for the relevant opening.
If you've 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 actual Alpha students. If that day excites you most, apply today.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback skills
- Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions that guide every student to 100% of their weekly app goals, using Coachbot data and Alpha's incentive systems (school currency, leaderboards)
- Administering the Test2Pass mastery check for each life skill, then re-coaching any student who does not pass until mastery is achieved
- Adjusting the workshop playbook and creating new sessions when gaps emerge, ensuring the same content resonates with both kindergarteners and 8th graders
- Serving as both the adult who upholds the standard and the adult your students trust and confide in
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering whiteboard lectures, designing math and reading lesson plans, or grading homework; academic content is delivered through the apps
- Leading standardized test prep or being accountable for class-wide test scores
- Managing parent conferences, emails, and complaints; campus leadership handles all parent-facing communication
- Managing behavior for 30 students simultaneously; cohorts are small and behavior coaching here is individualized
- Passively supervising students at computers; motivation work here is active and relational
Key responsibilities
Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, 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 deliver academic instruction while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching
- A personal track record of high achievement—academic, athletic, or professional—that has made upholding a rigorous standard a habit rather than a performance
- Stage presence capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Youth athletics coaching, debate, drama, camp leadership, or after-school program experience where you were directly accountable for kids reaching a defined goal
- Experience delivering social-emotional learning (SEL) or durable-skills curricula
- A student you can name who transitioned from resistant or disengaged to fully committed, and the precise action you took
- Daily use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini
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