Reading Teacher

$100,000 USD/year ^{Pay is set based on global value, not the local market. Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks}  ($50 USD/hour)

• $100,000 per year, salaried and paid weekly, including health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• 40 hours weekly across five days, fully on-site at a single Alpha campus, with relocation assistance available

You recognize a miscue instantly and can identify the underlying gap: the vowel pattern she still hasn't mastered, the consonant blend he consistently skips. You'll apply that skill daily. What proves more difficult is what comes immediately after—when a six-year-old sits in front of you, on the verge of tears, and the correct response is almost never simply providing the answer.

Alpha operates unlike any school you encountered in your training. Students complete their entire academic core curriculum in roughly two hours each morning through independent work on AI-adaptive applications—no traditional instruction, no printed textbooks, no district-mandated scope. The remainder of the day focuses on life-skills programming. Staff members are referred to as Guides instead of teachers, and this is not merely semantic: you will not be presenting curriculum. Your role is ensuring students complete their work, develop intrinsic motivation to engage with it, and receive targeted help when the software cannot resolve their confusion.

You remain with the same group of students from morning opening through dismissal: core academics, workshop sessions, lunch periods, outdoor play, and reflection routines. This extended contact reveals insights no standardized assessment can capture. Within two weeks, you'll identify which student is masking weak decoding skills—reading passages fluently because she memorized them earlier in the week, not because she can sound them out independently.

Once you've pinpointed the gap, there are no barriers to addressing it. No referral process, no team meetings, no waiting list. You gather two to four children and conduct a fifteen-minute targeted workshop designed for that precise error pattern—phoneme-grapheme correspondence, blending practice, decodable passages, whatever the need dictates—verify the skill transferred, then return them to independent work.

You will not be drafting lesson plans for twenty-four children late into the evening. Your preparation is focused and assessment-driven: identifying which students need intervention tomorrow and determining what instruction will advance them. You maintain the daily benchmark without quietly compromising it, because families review weekly progress data and will ask you to explain any shortfall.

Alpha is expanding campuses nationwide, and qualified personnel represent the primary constraint. Those who demonstrate excellence participate in hiring and onboarding subsequent Guides and develop the frameworks other locations implement. Some transition into lead coaching positions, where the diagnostic reasoning underlying literacy instruction becomes the central focus. This advancement is performance-based, not automatic.

Your resume alone will not determine your fit. If what makes you effective in this work has never translated neatly to a CV, that is precisely the insight we value.

We recruit across the United States, so job platforms may list this position in adjacent cities without current campuses. Active openings include:

• AZ - Phoenix
• OK - Oklahoma City and Tulsa
• TX - Dallas, Fort Worth (Keller), Plano, and The Woodlands
• UT - Park City (Salt Lake City)

Interested in a different Alpha location? Submit your application, specify your preferred campus, and we will direct you to the appropriate opening.