Reading Coach $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- $100,000 annual salary paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
- Full-time on-site position at a single Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Fort Worth (Keller), Dallas, Plano, or The Woodlands, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
- 40-hour workweek, 100% classroom-based with students in grades K-2
You have dedicated years to becoming an expert in structured literacy. Whether through Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction, you can identify a student's miscue and immediately pinpoint the phonemic weakness. You can build a phonics lesson from scratch without a scripted curriculum. That expertise is expected. It's the baseline, not what sets you apart.
What sets you apart is that young children are genuinely excited to see you. At Alpha, this position is first and foremost a Guide: someone who brings a magnetic, high-energy presence that kids are eager to learn with. Your structured-literacy credentials open the door; what gets you hired is your capacity to captivate a K-2 classroom during a 20-minute workshop. If "magnetic, high-energy presence" doesn't sound like you, this role isn't a fit.
Alpha has redesigned traditional education. Students work through academic material independently using AI-adaptive applications—no lectures, no textbooks, no prescribed pacing calendars. Your position is where human expertise remains essential. You create small-group reading workshops informed by live student performance metrics, and you facilitate motivation sessions aimed at ensuring every student meets their weekly app targets through Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate game mechanics).
Your initial months focus on winning the room. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" survey results (target 90% or higher) provide direct feedback. Once you establish credibility, your responsibilities expand: analyzing AI-generated performance insights to refine upcoming instruction, communicating fluency progress and decoding milestones to families, and influencing how Alpha's K-2 reading framework develops alongside adaptive technology. As Alpha opens additional campuses, your methods will become the template for reading instruction across the network.
Before an offer is extended, you will submit a short video in which you tell a captivating story for young children, and you will complete a full day on campus working directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children will disqualify you, regardless of credential strength. That's intentional. Submit your application today.
What you will be doing
- Creating and facilitating small-group K-2 reading workshops rooted in structured-literacy principles (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent), informed by live student performance data
- Running daily motivation sessions designed to ensure all students achieve their weekly adaptive-app targets, leveraging Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate game mechanics)
- Conducting and evaluating running records, fluency assessments, and decoding diagnostics to monitor progress and inform next-session instruction
- Analyzing AI-generated performance insights from Alpha's adaptive learning platforms to differentiate instruction dynamically, not only during advance planning
- Serving as the engaging, high-energy adult your K-2 students are excited to work with every day
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a commercial reading curriculum, scripted lesson plan, or district-mandated pacing guide; you create lessons directly from student performance data
- Delivering whole-class lectures; all teaching occurs in small, targeted groups while students complete academic subjects through adaptive applications
- Serving as a reading consultant, teacher coach, or district-level specialist; you work in the classroom with students daily
- Managing a conventional classroom schedule—subject-by-subject lectures, homework checks, test preparation; your time is allocated to workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small groups
- Scoring homework or issuing report cards; student advancement is tracked through app analytics and your running records
Key responsibilities
Provide structured-literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading performance across phonics, fluency, and decoding domains.
Candidate requirements
- Structured-literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent) OR a Master's degree in reading instruction
- Bachelor's degree in any field, plus 2 or more years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment, employing systematic phonics or structured literacy
- Proven capacity to design original reading lessons and explain your instructional approach clearly, independent of published programs
- Availability to work on-site full-time at one Alpha campus: Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Fort Worth (Keller), Dallas, Plano, or The Woodlands, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
- Readiness to work with all K-2 learners (not exclusively struggling readers) and to incorporate AI and adaptive-learning platforms into daily instruction
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Practical experience with AI-driven or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for instructional planning or data interpretation
- Documented reading outcomes (fluency improvements in WCPM, accuracy gains, decoding advancement) you can quantify with specific figures
- Experience in non-traditional or innovative educational settings (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid models)
- Background in performance, youth sports coaching, or otherwise engaging a K-2 audience beyond the reading classroom
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