Reading Tutor $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- On-site position 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 on a full-time basis, disbursed weekly
- Health, dental, and vision benefits begin on day one
- Relocation assistance available
Your training in structured literacy has equipped you to identify precisely which phonemic skills a student needs based on a single miscue. Yet the systems you work within often squander that precision: classrooms filled with 25 or more students, inflexible pacing calendars, standardized curricula that disregard what your running records reveal. If you've found yourself thinking "these students could make twice the progress if I taught according to what the data actually shows," this opportunity is for you.
Alpha School operates on a 2-Hour Learning model that integrates AI-adaptive technology with skilled human teaching. Academic subjects are completed by students working independently through individualized applications. Lectures, textbooks, and pacing guides do not exist. Your focus is the area where human expertise cannot be replaced: small-group reading workshops in which you create and implement structured literacy instruction customized to each child's phonics and decoding stage. You will use live AI-generated performance analytics to inform your session planning, make mid-lesson adjustments, and track progress through fluency rates, accuracy metrics, and decoding milestones.
In addition to reading workshops, you will facilitate motivation sessions that sustain K-2 learners' engagement with their academic targets. You are their mentor, their advocate, the adult who knows their name, their passions, and their exact position on the reading continuum. The objective: every student achieves their weekly targets, and over 90% of students describe their Guide as someone they genuinely enjoy learning with. This role prioritizes measurable outcomes over curriculum coverage, with results visible and trackable each week. As Alpha opens additional campuses, the instructional framework you develop will serve as the national standard for reading education.
If your conviction is that structured literacy delivers the strongest results when personalized, informed by data, and taught by someone who authentically energizes a room of young learners, this position 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, and writing for students in grades K-2
- Conducting and evaluating running records to determine each student's reading level and design focused instruction
- Analyzing AI-generated student performance metrics to modify instruction dynamically, not only during scheduled planning time
- Leading motivation sessions that support students in progressing through their learning applications and achieving 100% of their weekly targets
- Tailoring instruction within targeted 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 using student data)
- Presenting lessons to a full-class setting (all teaching occurs in small, targeted groups)
- Instructing in academic content areas (students work through math, science, and other subjects independently using adaptive applications)
- Operating within a conventional classroom schedule with bells, transitions, and uniform pacing calendars
- Evaluating homework or completing report cards (progress monitoring happens through application data 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 in-person at an Alpha School campus in one of the listed locations
- Willingness to instruct all K-2 students, not only struggling readers
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Background using AI or adaptive learning platforms (e.g., Lexia, i-Ready, Amira) for instructional planning or student data analysis
- Demonstrated ability to measure and communicate concrete reading outcomes from interventions (e.g., fluency gains in WCPM, decoding level advancement)
- Experience in non-traditional or innovative educational environments (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish
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