Reading Coach $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- On-site at an Alpha School campus: Phoenix, Arizona; Tampa, Florida; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Austin, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Houston (South Houston or The Woodlands), Texas; Plano, Texas; Park City (Salt Lake City), Utah
- $100,000/year full-time salary, paid weekly
- Day-one health, dental, and vision benefits
- Relocation support provided
You've invested years building expertise in structured literacy. You can identify a student's miscue and pinpoint precisely which phonemic skill needs attention. Yet you've also witnessed how the surrounding system squanders that knowledge: classrooms of 25+ students, inflexible pacing guides, standardized curricula that disregard what your running records reveal. If you've ever considered "I could double these students' progress if I could simply teach according to what the data indicates," continue reading.
Alpha School's 2-Hour Learning model integrates AI-adaptive software with specialized human instruction. Students work through academic coursework independently using personalized apps. There are no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing guides. Your position represents the one area where human expertise cannot be replaced: small-group reading workshops where you create and implement structured literacy instruction customized to each student's phonics and decoding level. You'll leverage real-time AI-generated performance data to prepare each session, modify instruction as needed, and track outcomes through fluency gains, accuracy improvements, and decoding progression.
In addition to reading workshops, you'll facilitate motivation sessions that maintain K-2 student engagement with their learning objectives. You'll serve as their coach, their advocate, the person who recognizes their name, their interests, and precisely where they stand in their reading development. The goal: 100% of students achieve their weekly targets, and 90%+ rate their Guide as someone they love working with. This isn't about curriculum coverage; it's about measurable results you can observe and track every single week. As Alpha grows to additional campuses, what you develop here establishes the standard for reading instruction nationwide.
If you believe structured literacy achieves optimal results when it's personalized, data-driven, and delivered by someone who genuinely energizes a room full of six-year-olds, this is where that conviction becomes your profession. Apply today.
What you will be doing
- Creating and facilitating small-group reading workshops centered on systematic phonics, decoding, and writing for K-2 students
- Conducting and evaluating running records to determine each student's reading level and develop targeted instruction
- Analyzing AI-generated student performance data to modify instruction in real time, not only during planning periods
- Facilitating motivation sessions that support students in advancing through their learning apps and achieving 100% of weekly targets
- Customizing instruction across focused reading groups according to individual learning styles and needs
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a published reading program or scripted curriculum (you create your own lessons using student data)
- Delivering lectures to a full classroom (all instruction occurs in small, focused groups)
- Teaching academic subjects (students complete math, science, and other coursework independently through adaptive apps)
- Operating within a traditional classroom schedule with bells, transitions, and standardized pacing guides
- Grading homework or report cards (student progress is monitored through app data and running records)
Key responsibilities
Deliver structured literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading outcomes across phonics, fluency, and decoding.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any subject
- Master's in reading instruction OR structured literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, LETRS, Neuhaus, UFLI, or similar)
- 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical setting using systematic phonics or structured literacy, within the last 5 years
- Experience creating original reading lessons (not solely relying on a published program)
- Willingness to utilize AI and adaptive learning tools for instructional planning and student data analysis
- Willingness to work in-person at an Alpha School campus in one of the listed locations
- Willingness to work with all K-2 students, not only struggling readers
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Experience utilizing AI or adaptive learning tools (e.g., Lexia, i-Ready, Amira) for instructional planning or student data analysis
- Demonstrated history of measuring and communicating specific reading outcomes from interventions (e.g., fluency gains in WCPM, decoding level advancement)
- Experience working in non-traditional or innovative school models (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
- Bilingual in English and Spanish
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