Kindergarten Teacher

$120,000 USD/year   ($60 USD/hour)

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-3 cohorts on topics including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, customizing the playbook to your cohort rather than following it verbatim.
• Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group coaching sessions to ensure every student stays on track for weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's motivational tools (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual rapport you have established with each child.
• Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for each life skill, and providing follow-up coaching for students who do not initially pass until mastery is achieved.
• Engaging kindergarteners with age-appropriate methods such as songs, stories, physical activity, and play, while maintaining clear, measurable expectations for second and third graders.
• Serving as the warm, trusted adult children are excited to see at morning drop-off AND the adult who consistently challenges them to meet their potential.

• Delivering whiteboard lectures. Academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you.
• Creating curriculum independently. Alpha supplies the playbook and you execute it with creativity and energy.
• Passively monitoring students on devices. Motivation in this role is hands-on, individualized, and continuous.
• Reducing a weekly target to help a child succeed. When a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not lowering the goal.
• Grading assignments, preparing for standardized tests, or handling parent outreach. Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks are not part of this model.

Ensure that every student in your K-3 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, Miami, Miami Beach, or Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation support provided).
• Bachelor's degree in any subject.
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 9 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
• A specific example you can describe of motivating a young child to a hard goal: the goal, what you did, and the outcome.
• Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching.
• Willingness to hold high standards with students even when they push back.
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

• Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals.
• Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture.
• Natural performer's presence with little kids: the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movement.
• Track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants.