Literacy 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 location: 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, full-time, with weekly pay
- Health, dental, and vision coverage begins on day one
- Relocation assistance available
You have dedicated years to refining your expertise in structured literacy. You recognize the precise phonemic gap behind each miscue a student makes. Yet you've witnessed your knowledge underutilized within a system that assigns 25 or more students per room, enforces inflexible pacing guides, and mandates curricula that disregard what running records reveal. If you've ever considered, "I could multiply these students' progress if I were free to teach according to the data," this opportunity deserves your attention.
The 2-Hour Learning model at Alpha School combines AI-adaptive platforms with specialized human teaching. Students work through academic content independently using personalized applications. There are no lectures, textbooks, or pacing calendars. Your focus centers on the one area where human expertise remains essential: small-group reading workshops in which you create and implement structured literacy lessons aligned to each learner's phonics and decoding stage. You will leverage real-time, AI-generated performance insights to design each session, make in-the-moment adjustments, and track results through fluency gains, accuracy growth, and decoding progress.
In addition to reading workshops, you will facilitate motivation sessions designed to sustain K-2 student engagement with their learning objectives. You will serve as their guide, advocate, and the individual who understands their name, interests, and precise position on their reading path. The goal: 100% of students achieve their weekly targets, and 90%+ rate their Guide as someone they enjoy learning with. This role emphasizes measurable outcomes you observe and document weekly, not merely content coverage. As Alpha School grows into additional locations, the framework you establish here will define reading instruction across the network.
If you are convinced that structured literacy achieves its greatest impact when personalized, informed by data, and taught by someone who authentically energizes a group of young learners, this role translates that conviction into daily practice. Apply now.
What you will be doing
- Creating and facilitating small-group reading workshops centered on systematic phonics, decoding, and writing for K-2 learners
- Conducting and evaluating running records to determine each student's reading level and inform targeted instruction
- Analyzing AI-generated student performance metrics to modify instruction in real time, beyond advance planning phases
- Leading motivation sessions that support students in progressing through their learning applications and achieving 100% of weekly targets
- Customizing instruction across focused reading cohorts according to each student's learning profile and requirements
What you will NOT be doing
- Adhering to a published reading curriculum or scripted program (you create lessons driven by student data)
- Delivering whole-class lectures (instruction occurs exclusively in small, targeted groups)
- Teaching academic disciplines beyond reading (students independently complete math, science, and other subjects through adaptive applications)
- Operating within a conventional classroom schedule featuring bells, transitions, and uniform pacing frameworks
- Assigning grades for homework or report cards (progress is monitored via app data and running records)
Key responsibilities
Provide structured literacy instruction that produces measurable acceleration in K-2 reading outcomes, including phonics, fluency, and decoding proficiency.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- 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 environment using systematic phonics or structured literacy, within the past 5 years
- Demonstrated ability to design original reading lessons (not exclusively dependent on a published program)
- Willingness to integrate AI and adaptive learning technologies for instructional planning and student data interpretation
- Willingness to work on-site at an Alpha School campus in one of the specified locations
- Willingness to instruct all K-2 students, not limited to struggling readers
- Legal authorization to work in the United States 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 interpretation
- Documented history of measuring and communicating specific reading gains from interventions (e.g., fluency improvements in WCPM, decoding level progression)
- Experience in non-traditional or innovative educational settings (charter, micro-school, Montessori, hybrid)
- Fluency in English and Spanish
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