Educational Technology Specialist $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 in 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, disbursed weekly. Full health, dental, and vision coverage begins on day one
- Daily instruction supported by AI-driven tools and adaptive learning platforms
You know that 20 minutes of precision-driven reading instruction delivers more impact than 90 minutes of scripted lessons, and your student outcomes confirm it. You've seen learners break through phonics barriers because you identified the specific gap yourself, not because a curriculum dictated the next step. If building lessons directly from live student data feels like empowerment rather than burden, this role is for you.
Alpha's reading instruction operates on one core principle: every minute counts. Your workshops run for 20 minutes and are constructed around each student's actual needs, not predetermined pacing charts. You'll evaluate reading proficiency, organize targeted groups, and provide high-impact structured literacy teaching (phonics, fluency, comprehension) to children aged 4-7 that produces weekly measurable progress. AI-driven adaptive platforms work alongside you, producing performance insights you'll use to modify the next day's lesson before the current session concludes.
This position evolves. During your first year, you're immersed in classroom delivery: facilitating workshops, leading motivational experiences that transform hesitant readers into enthusiastic ones, and supplying detailed observations to the technology team refining Alpha's AI literacy platforms. As these platforms expand and your input influences them, your impact reaches beyond your immediate students. You'll contribute to building a reading system that functions across multiple campuses, scaling what you accomplish with 15 children into a framework that supports hundreds.
If you've dedicated your career to demonstrating that structured literacy delivers results and you're prepared to combine that expertise with technology that multiplies it, this is where your influence extends beyond a single classroom.
What you will be doing
- Creating and facilitating 20-minute reading workshops developed from your own diagnostic evaluations of each student's reading proficiency and skill gaps
- Leveraging AI-generated student performance insights to modify groupings and instructional focus between sessions, rather than waiting for quarterly assessments
- Facilitating motivational experiences that cultivate intrinsic reading motivation, incorporating age-appropriate gamification and personalized goal-setting with K-2 learners
- Piloting and assessing AI literacy platforms during live workshops, then delivering structured feedback to the technology team regarding effectiveness and areas for improvement
- Monitoring measurable results (fluency progress, decoding level advancement, accuracy gains) and applying them to refine your instructional methods weekly
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a scripted or packaged reading curriculum. You assess needs and create instruction independently.
- Conducting 60-90 minute lecture-format literacy blocks. Sessions are brief, targeted, and intensive.
- Exclusively working with struggling readers. You'll teach all K-2 students across varying reading abilities.
- Functioning separately from technology. AI adaptive platforms are integrated into your daily practice, not an occasional supplement.
- Delaying instructional changes until quarterly data reviews. You make adjustments in real time based on current data insights.
Key responsibilities
Advance early elementary students to grade-level reading proficiency through adaptive, AI-supported 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
- Capacity to develop your own reading lessons and articulate clearly what you teach and how, without depending on a published program
- Commitment to working 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 available)
- Commitment to using AI and adaptive learning platforms daily and adjusting as platforms develop
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. 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 describe with concrete data (e.g., advanced 12 students from Level C to Level G within one semester)
- Experience partnering with edtech teams, product teams, or instructional designers on platform development
- Background in a startup, micro-school, or non-traditional educational setting where you developed systems rather than implemented existing ones
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