Instructional Coordinator $120,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- On-site position at an Alpha campus: Lake Forest CA, Palo Alto CA, Piedmont CA, San Francisco CA, Santa Monica CA, Greenwich CT, Chicago IL, Boston MA, New York City NY, or Chantilly VA (relocation assistance available)
- Annual salary of $120,000, distributed weekly. Full health, dental, and vision coverage from day one
- Daily instruction supported by AI-driven tools and adaptive learning systems
You've seen firsthand that 20 minutes of precisely calibrated reading instruction outperforms 90 minutes of scripted lessons, and your student outcomes back it up. You've helped children move past phonics barriers by identifying their specific gaps yourself, rather than deferring to a pre-packaged program's next unit. If building lessons directly from live student data feels like professional autonomy instead of added burden, this role will resonate with you.
Alpha's approach to reading instruction centers on one principle: every minute counts. Your 20-minute workshops are constructed around each student's actual needs, not predetermined pacing calendars. You will assess reading abilities, organize targeted small groups, and teach high-impact structured literacy components—phonics, fluency, comprehension—to students aged 4 to 7, ensuring measurable weekly progress. AI-powered adaptive platforms work alongside you, producing performance insights that let you refine tomorrow's lesson before today's workshop concludes.
This position evolves over time. During your first year, you'll be immersed in classroom practice: facilitating workshops, leading motivational activities that transform hesitant readers into enthusiastic ones, and providing detailed input to the technology team developing Alpha's AI literacy infrastructure. As those tools expand and your feedback informs their design, your influence will extend beyond your immediate students. You'll contribute to a reading system that functions campus-wide, scaling what you accomplish with 15 children into a framework serving hundreds.
If your career has been dedicated to demonstrating the power of structured literacy, and you're prepared to combine that expertise with technology that multiplies its reach, this is where your influence transcends a single classroom.
What you will be doing
- Creating and facilitating 20-minute reading workshops informed by your own diagnostic evaluation of each student's reading ability and skill gaps
- Leveraging AI-generated performance insights to modify groupings and instructional priorities between sessions, rather than waiting for quarterly assessments
- Leading motivational activities that cultivate intrinsic reading motivation through age-appropriate gamification and personalized goal-setting with K-2 learners
- Piloting and assessing AI literacy platforms during live instruction, then delivering structured input to the technology team regarding tool effectiveness and areas for improvement
- Monitoring quantifiable results (fluency progress, decoding advancement, accuracy gains) and applying them to refine your instructional methods on a weekly basis
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a scripted or commercially packaged reading curriculum. You will diagnose needs and design instruction independently.
- Conducting 60-90 minute lecture-based literacy blocks. Your sessions are brief, targeted, and intensive.
- Exclusively serving struggling readers. You will teach all K-2 students across the full range of reading abilities.
- Working independently of technology systems. AI adaptive platforms are embedded in your daily practice, not occasional supplements.
- Postponing instructional adjustments until quarterly data cycles. You will modify your approach in real time based on current data.
Key responsibilities
Advance early elementary students to grade-level reading proficiency through adaptive, AI-enhanced structured literacy instruction.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree (any discipline)
- Master's degree in reading instruction OR structured literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, LETRS, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent)
- 2+ years of full-time K-2 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical environment within the past 5 years, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
- Capability to independently design reading lessons and articulate your instructional methods and content without dependence on a published curriculum
- Availability to work on-site at an Alpha campus (Lake Forest CA, Palo Alto CA, Piedmont CA, San Francisco CA, Santa Monica CA, Greenwich CT, Chicago IL, Boston MA, New York City NY, or Chantilly VA; relocation assistance provided)
- Commitment to daily use of AI and adaptive learning platforms and flexibility to adapt as these tools evolve
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Familiarity with diagnostic reading assessments (e.g., DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) for creating differentiated instructional groups
- Documented record of measurable student reading improvements you can articulate with specific data (e.g., advanced 12 students from Level C to Level G within one semester)
- Experience partnering with edtech teams, product development teams, or instructional designers on tool creation
- Background in a startup, micro-school, or non-traditional educational setting where you developed systems rather than implementing existing ones
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