Description
- $120,000/year salary, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
- Full-time on-site position at a single Alpha campus: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Malibu, Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, or Santa Monica, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Seattle, WA (relocation assistance available)
- 40 hours per week, 100% in-classroom working directly with K-3 students
Your structured-literacy certification — Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master's in reading instruction — has opened the door to every K-3 reading position you've pursued. In most roles, it has also marked the limit: you executed an existing program and documented results. At Alpha, the credential is where you begin. If that difference resonates with you, continue reading.
Alpha has redesigned traditional instruction from the ground up. Students work through academic content independently using AI-adaptive applications. There are no lectures, no textbooks, no pacing guides. Your role represents the one area where a human expert cannot be replaced. You create 20-minute small-group workshops informed by real-time app data; sessions are deliberately brief, because focused precision outperforms duration. You also lead motivation sessions designed to push 100% of your students toward their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification). When you catch a student's miscue during a session, you identify the phonemic gap and redesign tomorrow's workshop by day's end. This is the expected standard.
Families enrolling at these campuses have selected Alpha for measurable results, not simply attendance. Parents review weekly data on their child's reading progress, and they ask pointed questions. You will need to address specific inquiries about individual student performance, and vague reassurances will not suffice. You must reference the running record, identify the phonemic gap, and describe your intervention plan. This level of accountability should energize you, not drain you.
Your initial months focus on proving your effectiveness in the classroom. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably successful; student satisfaction and "love your Guide" survey scores (target 90%+) provide direct measurement. Once you establish your results, your influence expands beyond your own students: what succeeds in your classroom becomes the model replicated at other Alpha campuses, and your diagnostic precision influences how reading is taught as Alpha scales. The work you create extends well beyond your immediate environment.
Before we extend an offer, you will submit a short video in which you tell an engaging story for young children, and you will complete a full day on campus working directly with K-3 students. Low energy with children will disqualify you, regardless of credential strength. This is intentional. Apply today.
What you will be doing
- Creating small-group K-3 reading workshops based on live adaptive-app data, rooted in structured-literacy approaches (Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent)
- Leading daily motivation sessions designed to drive 100% of your students toward their weekly app targets using Alpha's motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age-appropriate gamification)
- Analyzing AI-generated performance data (fluency curves, decoding accuracy, comprehension indicators) to modify instruction mid-day, not only during planning time
- Conducting running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to generate gains that appear in the weekly campus data review
- Serving as the engaging, high-energy adult your K-3 students are excited to see each day
What you will NOT be doing
- Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted program, or district pacing guide; you create lessons directly from student data
- Delivering lectures to a full classroom; all instruction occurs in small, targeted groups while students complete academic subjects through adaptive apps
- Serving as a reading consultant, coach to other teachers, or district-level specialist; you work in the classroom with students every day
- Operating a traditional classroom block: subject-by-subject lectures, homework review, test preparation. Your scheduled time is dedicated to workshops, motivation sessions, and data-driven small groups
- Completing IEPs, 504 plans, or formal diagnostic reports; student progress is captured in app data and your running records, not in special-education documentation
Key responsibilities
Generate measurable K-3 reading gains across phonics, fluency, and comprehension within a campus community where outcomes undergo weekly review.
Candidate requirements
- Structured-literacy certification (Orton-Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson Reading System, IMSE, CERI, Neuhaus, UFLI, or equivalent) OR a Master's degree in reading instruction
- Bachelor's degree in any field, plus 2+ years of full-time K-3 structured reading instruction in a school or clinical setting within the last 5 years, utilizing systematic phonics or structured literacy
- Proven capacity to design your own reading lessons and clearly explain what you teach and how, without depending on a published program
- Willingness to work in person full-time at one Alpha campus: Beverly Hills, La Jolla (San Diego), Malibu, Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, or Santa Monica, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Seattle, WA (relocation support provided)
- Willingness to work with all K-3 students (not exclusively struggling readers) and incorporate AI and adaptive-learning tools into daily instruction as these tools develop
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Practical experience with AI-powered or adaptive reading platforms (e.g., Amira, Lexia, i-Ready, Reading Plus) for planning or analyzing student data
- Documented reading outcomes (fluency gains in WCPM, accuracy improvement, decoding level advancement) you can quantify with specific numbers
- Experience with diagnostic reading assessments (DRA, DIBELS, AIMSweb) for forming differentiated instructional groups
- Experience in high-accountability educational environments (independent, elite charter, premium tutoring with families who closely monitor outcomes)
- Background in performance, coaching youth sports, or otherwise engaging a K-3 audience outside the reading classroom
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