Early Childhood 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 begin day one
- On-site position 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 available)
Your role is not instruction. Your role is motivation.
When a six-year-old reaches 99% of their target, the most supportive response is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation troubles you, this role is not a fit. If it energizes you—because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's capability—read on.
Alpha students in grades K-2 complete academic learning via AI-powered applications during two hours each day. No traditional lectures. No paper worksheets. You will spend half of each day facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, concentration, and peer feedback. These workshops serve as frameworks, not rigid scripts—the most effective Guides customize them for their group and create new ones when gaps appear. During the remaining half, you work individually or in small clusters with students, analyze Coachbot data, and coach each child toward 100% completion of weekly app targets. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and playfulness are not supplementary; they are the mechanisms that sustain attention long enough to enable learning. Warmth creates the trust that allows you to challenge. Challenge signals your confidence in their potential.
A successful quarter means every student completes weekly app objectives, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report loving you. Falling short on any of these three is failing to meet the role's core expectations. In your first year, you will internalize the operating model; as you demonstrate your ability to maintain standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available—a role in which you mentor newer team members while continuing direct work with students.
If you are drawn to conventional classroom teaching, prefer ready-made curricula, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position will not suit you. If you have been an early-elementary educator who excelled at 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 pure energy, the final step before an offer is a shadow day on campus where you coach actual Alpha students. If that prospect is what excites you most, submit your application today.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for groups of 10-15 students in grades K-2, covering public speaking, concentration, feedback, and other foundational competencies
- Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions to maintain student progress toward weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the personal connection you establish with each child
- Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, then coaching students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
- Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level using songs, narratives, physical activity, and humor, while simultaneously holding first and second graders accountable to concrete, measurable expectations
- Serving as the warm presence children are excited to see at morning arrival 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
- Creating curriculum from the ground up; Alpha supplies the operational framework and you execute it with your cohort
- Passively monitoring children at screens; motivation in this model is direct, individualized, and continuous
- Reducing a weekly target to make it achievable for a struggling student; when a child falls behind, the solution is supporting the child, not adjusting the goal
- Grading homework, facilitating standardized test preparation, or managing parent correspondence; Campus Leads handle parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this environment
Key responsibilities
Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort completes their weekly learning objectives, achieves mastery in 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 support provided)
- Bachelor's degree in any subject
- At least 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 8 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
- A specific example you can articulate of motivating a young child toward a challenging goal: the objective, your approach, and the result
- Able to attend a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
- Willingness to allow AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
- Legally authorized to work in the US without 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), such that expecting excellence from others is a consistent practice, not an adopted stance
- Natural performer's energy with young children—the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through vocal tone, humor, and physical expression
- Demonstrated success transforming hesitant or reluctant young children into engaged, confident participants
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