Kindergarten Teacher

$120,000 USD/year ^{Pay is set based on global value, not the local market. Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks}  ($60 USD/hour)

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-2 cohorts on public speaking, concentration, feedback, and other foundational skills, customizing the playbook to fit your group rather than following it verbatim.
• Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that keep every student progressing toward weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's reward structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the personal connection you establish with each child.
• Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for each life skill, and supporting students who do not pass on first attempt until they achieve mastery.
• Meeting kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, storytelling, physical activity, and playfulness while still expecting first and second graders to meet clear, quantifiable benchmarks.
• Serving as the caring adult children are excited to see at morning drop-off AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less than their best.

• Delivering lectures at the board. Academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you.
• Creating curriculum independently. Alpha supplies the playbook and you animate it.
• Passively monitoring kids at computers. Motivation here is hands-on, individualized, and continuous.
• Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it. If a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal.
• Evaluating homework, preparing for standardized testing, or handling parent outreach. Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not apply here.

Ensure every student in your K-2 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, or Miami Beach, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation assistance provided).
• Bachelor's degree in any field.
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 7 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a young child toward a challenging goal: the goal itself, your approach, and the result.
• Willingness to allow AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching.
• Willingness to uphold rigorous standards with students even when they resist.
• Legally authorized to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship.

• Background in youth sports coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you held direct accountability for motivating young children toward defined objectives.
• Personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to a demanding standard is consistent behavior, not an adopted stance.
• Natural ability to command attention with young children: the capacity to engage a room of kindergarteners through vocal expression, humor, and physical energy.
• Proven success in transforming hesitant or reluctant young children into engaged, confident contributors.