2nd Grade 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 sessions for K–2 cohorts on topics including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational competencies, customizing the playbook to fit your group rather than delivering it verbatim.
• Conducting daily one-on-one and small-group coaching sessions that maintain every student's trajectory toward weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot data, Alpha's motivational tools (campus currency, leaderboards), and the individual rapport you establish with each child.
• Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for every life skill, and providing additional coaching to students who do not pass on the first attempt until mastery is achieved.
• Engaging kindergarteners with age-appropriate methods such as songs, stories, physical activity, and playfulness while maintaining measurable standards for first and second graders.
• Serving as the caring adult children are excited to see each morning AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less than their potential.

• Delivering whiteboard instruction. Academic content is housed in the applications, not delivered by you.
• Developing curriculum independently. Alpha supplies the playbook; you execute and adapt it.
• Passively monitoring students on devices. Motivation in this role is hands-on, individualized, and continuous.
• Adjusting a weekly target downward so a child can meet it. When a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not changing the goal.
• Assessing homework, preparing for standardized exams, or handling parent outreach. Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not apply here.

Guarantee that every student in your K–2 cohort achieves their weekly learning objectives, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting they loved you.

• Available to work on-site at an Alpha campus located 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 discipline.
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 7 (including 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 objective, your approach, and the result.
• Comfort allowing AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching.
• Readiness to maintain high expectations with students even when met with resistance.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.

• Background in youth sports coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early childhood education, or after-school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating young children toward defined objectives.
• Personal history of high performance (academic, athletic, or professional), indicating that upholding rigorous standards is intrinsic rather than assumed.
• Natural stage presence with young children: the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners using voice, humor, and movement.
• Proven ability to transform reserved or reluctant young children into engaged, confident contributors.