Description
- On-site position at Alpha School's campus in Dorado, Puerto Rico
- Annual salary of $100,000 ($50/hour for 40 hours weekly), paid each week
- No teaching certification necessary; Spanish language proficiency is beneficial
The greatest support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their target is to insist the work isn't finished. If that principle makes you uneasy, this position is not a fit. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards demonstrates your belief in a child's ability to meet them, continue reading.
Alpha School operates on a 2 Hour Learning framework: students from kindergarten through 8th grade complete a full day's worth of academic work in approximately two hours using adaptive learning applications. There are no lectures. No textbooks. Your responsibility covers what the software cannot — guiding children through essential life competencies such as public speaking, concentration, collaboration, and the exchange of constructive feedback.
Sixty percent of your weekly time will involve individual motivation work: reviewing learning application dashboards and Coachbot data, identifying where an 8-year-old struggles with fractions or a 5th grader avoids reading assignments, and resolving those obstacles. The remaining 40% involves facilitating interactive, hour-long workshops that resemble improv practice sessions more than traditional classroom instruction. All students must demonstrate mastery via Test2Pass evaluations before progression.
This position offers growth. You'll manage a small student cohort and internalize Alpha's operational framework during your first year. Demonstrate the ability to guide every student to 100% goal completion while maintaining strong satisfaction metrics, and advancement opportunities emerge: Lead Guide, then Campus Lead (full school management). You'll witness a child who avoided eye contact in September deliver a poised presentation to a room full of parents by spring.
Apply if you believe that 30 children seated in rows absorbing information from a single adult undermines what children are truly capable of achieving.
What you will be doing
- Guiding K-8 students individually and in small groups through adaptive learning applications, leveraging Coachbot analytics and dashboards to identify learning blocks and their causes
- Implementing Alpha's motivation methodology (leaderboards, reward systems, weekly target-setting) to ensure every student progresses according to expectations
- Facilitating hour-long, experiential life-skills workshops focused on public speaking, concentration, teamwork, and the giving and receiving of feedback (project-driven and participatory, never lecture-based)
- Conducting Test2Pass mastery evaluations and upholding standards: students do not progress until they conclusively demonstrate understanding
- Establishing trust with students so rigorous accountability feels empowering rather than punitive
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lectures or conventional academic instruction (core subject learning happens through adaptive applications, not through direct teaching)
- Creating lesson plans independently — Alpha supplies curriculum and operational playbooks; you execute them with enthusiasm and narrative skill
- Correcting homework assignments or preparing students for standardized testing; these elements do not exist in this model
- Handling parent communications or operational school matters — Campus Leads oversee those areas, allowing you to concentrate on your cohort
- Providing passive laptop supervision; active coaching is the core function of this role
Key responsibilities
Guide a cohort of K-8 students to achieve 100% of their academic and life-skills objectives.
Candidate requirements
- Available to work on-site at Alpha's Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline
- 3+ years of direct, hands-on experience with K-8 (kindergarten through 8th grade) students via teaching, tutoring, youth programming, camps, or sports coaching
- Demonstrated record of high personal achievement in academic, athletic, or professional contexts
- Authorization to work legally in the United States or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Bilingual fluency in English and Spanish to establish strong connections with students and families in the Dorado area
- Background in coaching environments where elevated standards produced quantifiable results (competitive athletics, debate, performing arts, or selective youth initiatives)
- History of leading youth workshops, summer camps, or after-school initiatives where you developed activities rather than only providing supervision
- Prior exposure to adaptive or application-based learning systems (such as Khan Academy, IXL, DreamBox)
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