Instructional Coach $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- On-site role 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 annual salary paid weekly, full-time position
- Health, dental, and vision coverage begins on day one
- Relocation assistance available
You have dedicated years to becoming an expert in structured literacy. You can identify a student's error pattern and pinpoint the exact phonemic skill that needs attention. Yet you have likely observed how traditional systems underutilize that expertise: classrooms of 25 or more students, inflexible pacing calendars, standardized programs that disregard the insights your assessments provide. If you have ever considered "these students could make twice the progress if I could teach according to what the data reveals," this opportunity is for you.
Alpha School's 2-Hour Learning framework integrates AI-driven adaptive software with skilled human teaching. Students work through academic content autonomously using individualized applications. There are no whole-group lessons, no textbooks, no district-mandated pacing. Your focus is the one area where human expertise cannot be replaced: small-group reading workshops in which you create and deliver structured literacy instruction matched to each learner's phonics and decoding stage. You will utilize live AI-generated performance metrics to prepare each session, make real-time instructional pivots, and track progress through fluency gains, accuracy data, and decoding milestones.
In addition to reading workshops, you will facilitate motivation sessions designed to sustain K-2 learners' engagement with their learning targets. You will serve as their coach, their advocate, the individual who knows their name, their passions, and precisely where they stand in their literacy development. The objective: 100% of students achieve their weekly targets, and 90%+ describe their Guide as someone they genuinely enjoy learning with. This role prioritizes measurable outcomes you can observe and quantify weekly, not curriculum coverage. As Alpha grows into additional campuses, the systems you establish here will shape reading instruction across the network.
If you are convinced that structured literacy achieves its full potential when personalized, informed by data, and taught by someone who truly energizes a room of young learners, this role aligns with that conviction. Submit your application today.
What you will be doing
- Creating and facilitating small-group reading workshops centered on systematic phonics, decoding strategies, and writing for students in grades K-2
- Conducting and evaluating running records to determine each student's reading stage and inform targeted lesson planning
- Analyzing AI-generated student performance metrics to modify instruction dynamically, not only during scheduled planning time
- Facilitating motivation sessions that support students in progressing through their learning applications and meeting 100% of weekly targets
- Tailoring instruction within focused reading groups according to individual learning preferences and requirements
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a commercial reading program or scripted lesson plans (you create your own instruction informed by student data)
- Delivering whole-class lectures (all teaching occurs in small, targeted groups)
- Instructing academic content areas (students work through math, science, and other subjects independently using adaptive applications)
- Operating within a conventional classroom schedule featuring bells, transitions, and uniform pacing charts
- Scoring homework assignments or issuing report cards (student advancement is monitored via app analytics and running records)
Key responsibilities
Provide structured literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading performance across phonics, fluency, and decoding skills.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any subject
- Master's degree 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 exclusively using a published program)
- Willingness to incorporate AI and adaptive learning tools for instructional planning and student data analysis
- Willingness to work on-site at an Alpha School campus in one of the specified locations
- Willingness to instruct all K-2 students, not only those identified as struggling readers
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Experience utilizing AI or adaptive learning platforms (e.g., Lexia, i-Ready, Amira) for instructional planning or analyzing student data
- Demonstrated ability to measure and communicate specific reading outcomes from interventions (e.g., fluency improvements in WCPM, decoding level progression)
- Experience teaching in non-traditional or innovative educational models (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish
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