2nd Grade Teacher $120,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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2nd Grade Teacher $120,000 USD/year
Description
The curriculum is already designed. The AI already handles the instruction. Your role is to help a child accomplish something they thought was beyond their reach.
At Alpha, academic work occupies only two hours of each student's day, powered by adaptive learning technology. This model allows Guides to dedicate their time to what truly transforms lives: fostering confidence, developing resilience, strengthening communication, and cultivating the drive to embrace difficult challenges. You won't find yourself presenting lessons at the front of a room. Instead, your days will center on guiding students through obstacles, acknowledging their achievements, and demonstrating what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic encouragement.
You'll oversee a single K-3 cohort band—Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half of your time goes to facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remaining half is dedicated to individual and small-group coaching, leveraging learning analytics to ensure every child progresses toward demanding weekly objectives. Each moment with students counts. They should emerge from your workshops with greater capability and leave your coaching conversations believing in possibilities they hadn't previously considered.
This position is not designed for someone seeking to implement curriculum or oversee traditional classroom management. It's intended for someone who finds joy in motivating young learners, values measurable progress, and holds the conviction that the right mentor can alter a child's path. If you've energized children as an educator, athletic coach, camp coordinator, youth mentor, or entertainer, you'll discover a distinctly different classroom environment here.
This is a full-time, on-site position at an Alpha campus. Because we hire across the country, job postings may appear in neighboring cities where we do not currently operate a campus.
We are currently hiring in La Jolla (San Diego), Orange County (Lake Forest), Los Angeles (South Bay, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu), San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco, Palo Alto, Piedmont), Greenwich, CT, Boca Raton, Miami, Miami Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Chicago, Boston, New York City, and Kirkland (Seattle area).
If your interest lies in a different Alpha location, submit your application regardless and specify your preferred campus—we will evaluate you for the relevant opening.
What you will be doing
- Facilitate compelling life-skills workshops that enable K-3 students to build proficiency in communication, concentration, feedback reception, and other foundational skills through hands-on engagement rather than passive listening.
- Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child remains aligned with ambitious weekly learning targets.
- Evaluate life-skill competency using Alpha's Test2Pass system, guiding students until they exhibit genuine mastery—not merely attendance.
- Tailor your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, whether that involves songs, physical movement, and narrative techniques for younger children or increased autonomy and responsibility for older learners.
- Cultivate the type of connections where students feel empowered enough to push past perceived limitations.
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering academic content from the front of the room. Students acquire academic knowledge through adaptive software.
- Creating curriculum materials from the ground up. You'll refine and customize established playbooks rather than designing lessons from scratch.
- Observing students as they quietly complete computer-based tasks. Your function is active mentorship, inspiration, and engagement.
- Reducing standards when students encounter difficulties. Achievement emerges from supporting students to meet the objective, not from adjusting the objective downward.
- Overseeing homework assignments, evaluating papers, or conducting standard parent correspondence.
Key responsibilities
Build a K-3 cohort of students who are excited to attend school, reliably meet ambitious learning targets, and develop the life skills that equip them for long-term success well beyond elementary school.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work on-site at one of Alpha's campuses. Current openings are available in La Jolla (San Diego); Orange County (Lake Forest); Los Angeles (South Bay, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu); San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco, Palo Alto, Piedmont); Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton; Miami; Miami Beach; Palm Beach Gardens; Chicago; Boston; New York City; and Kirkland (Seattle area). Relocation assistance is available.
- Bachelor's degree in any subject.
- At least 3 years of experience working directly with children ages 4-9 through teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or similar environments.
- A track record of motivating young children to achieve challenging goals, with specific examples of your impact.
- Comfort using AI-powered learning while focusing your own energy on coaching, motivation, and life-skill development.
- The ability to balance warmth with unwavering expectations.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
Nice to have
- Experience in youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori, progressive education, or high-engagement after-school programs.
- Personal experience achieving ambitious goals in academics, athletics, or your career.
- Outstanding storytelling or performance skills that naturally capture the attention of young children.
- Evidence of helping reluctant or shy children become confident, engaged participants.
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