Instructional 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, distributed weekly, including health, dental, and vision coverage from 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 work week, entirely classroom-based with kindergarten through second-grade learners
You have invested years 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 reading error and pinpoint the precise phonemic skill to address. You design phonics instruction from scratch without needing a scripted curriculum. That level of expertise is baseline. It is not what sets you apart.
What distinguishes you is that young children are genuinely excited to see you. At Alpha, this position is fundamentally a Guide role: a dynamic, magnetic presence that students enjoy learning alongside. Your structured-literacy background qualifies you for consideration; your capacity to captivate a K-2 classroom during a 20-minute workshop is what earns you the position. If the phrase "dynamic, magnetic presence" does not resonate with you, this opportunity is not the right fit.
Alpha has reimagined conventional instruction. Academic content is completed independently by students through AI-adaptive applications — no whole-group lessons, no textbooks, no district-mandated pacing. Your position represents the one domain where a human specialist cannot be replaced. You build small-group reading workshops based on live student performance metrics, and you facilitate motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your learners reach their weekly app targets through Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification).
Your initial months focus on building rapport and trust. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably impactful. Student satisfaction metrics and "love your Guide" survey results (goal of 90%+) provide direct measurement. 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 in tandem with adaptive technology. As Alpha opens additional campuses, your work becomes the blueprint for reading instruction across the organization.
Prior to an offer, you will submit a brief video recording in which you tell a captivating story suitable for young children, and you will complete a full day on campus engaging directly with K-2 students. Low energy with children is disqualifying, regardless of credential strength. This is intentional. Apply today.
What you will be doing
- Creating and facilitating small-group K-2 reading workshops rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent), informed by live student performance data
- Facilitating daily motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your learners meet their weekly adaptive-app targets, utilizing Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
- Conducting and evaluating running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to monitor progress and refine subsequent instruction
- Analyzing AI-generated performance insights from Alpha's adaptive learning platforms to differentiate instruction dynamically, not only during advance planning
- Serving as the approachable, energetic adult presence your K-2 learners are eager to engage with daily
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a commercial reading curriculum, scripted instructional program, or district pacing calendar; you create your own lessons informed by student 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, instructional coach to peers, or district-level specialist; you work directly with children in the classroom daily
- Managing a conventional classroom schedule — subject-by-subject lectures, homework correction, test preparation; your scheduled time consists of workshops, motivation sessions, and data-informed small groups
- Grading homework or producing report cards; student advancement is tracked through app data and your running records
Key responsibilities
Provide structured-literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading performance across phonics, fluency, and decoding.
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 discipline, plus 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment, employing systematic phonics or structured literacy
- Proven capacity to create original reading lessons and clearly explain your instructional content and methods, without dependence on a published program
- Availability to work in person 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)
- Openness to working with all K-2 learners (not exclusively struggling readers) and to incorporating AI and adaptive-learning platforms into everyday instruction
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Direct experience with AI-powered or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for instructional planning or student data interpretation
- Documented history of quantifiable reading gains (fluency improvement in WCPM, accuracy increases, decoding level progression) that you can cite with specific metrics
- Experience in non-traditional or progressive school environments (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
- Experience in performance, youth sports coaching, or otherwise engaging a K-2 audience beyond the reading classroom
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