Kindergarten Teacher $100,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- $100,000/year W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision benefits start on day one
- On-site position at an Alpha campus located in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
You are not a teacher. You are a motivator.
The most powerful way to support a six-year-old who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation troubles you, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards demonstrates your belief in what a kindergartener can achieve, read on.
At Alpha, students in grades K-3 complete academic learning through AI-driven applications in two hours daily. As a Guide, you lead one cohort band — either K-1 (Kindergarten–1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd–3rd grade) — and adjust your approach, tempo, and workshop delivery to match that band. No lectures. No worksheets. Half your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, concentration, and feedback exchange. These workshops serve as frameworks, not rigid scripts — high performers in this role customize them for their cohort and create additional ones when gaps arise. The remaining half involves sitting with students individually or in small clusters, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and play are not optional extras; they are the mechanisms through which you sustain attention long enough to teach. Warmth creates the foundation that gives you permission to challenge. Challenging them communicates your confidence in their potential.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role has not been fulfilled. During your first year, you will internalize the operating model; once you demonstrate the ability to maintain standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible, where you mentor newer team members while continuing direct work with children.
If you prefer conventional teaching methods, expect pre-built curriculum delivered to you, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position will not suit you. If you have been an early-elementary educator who excelled during circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, a children's theater performer, or anyone capable of commanding a room of kindergarteners through vocal presence, play, and raw energy, the final step before receiving an offer is a shadow day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for cohorts of 10-15 students in grades K-3, addressing public speaking, concentration, feedback, and other enduring competencies
- Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that maintain student progress toward weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the personal connection you've established with each child
- Administering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
- Meeting kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, narratives, physical movement, and humor, while simultaneously holding second and third graders accountable to concrete, measurable expectations
- Serving as the warm adult children are eager to see at morning drop-off AND the adult who will not permit them to settle for less than their best
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lectures from the front of the room; academic content is delivered through the applications, not by you
- Developing curriculum independently; Alpha supplies the operating framework and you execute it with energy
- Passively supervising children at computer stations; motivation in this context is active, individualized, and continuous
- Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution is to coach the student, not adjust the standard
- Grading assignments, running standardized test preparation, or managing parent outreach; Campus Leads handle parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not exist in this model
Key responsibilities
Ensure every student in your K-3 cohort completes their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance provided)
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 9 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
- A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a young child toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
- Able to participate in a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
- Comfort with allowing AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
- Legally authorized to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Background in youth sports coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating young children toward defined objectives
- Personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to demanding standards is a consistent practice, not an adopted stance
- Natural performer's instinct with young children — the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through vocal delivery, playfulness, and physical energy
- History of transforming timid or reluctant young children into engaged, confident participants
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