Description
- On-site position at Alpha School's campus in Dorado, Puerto Rico
- Annual salary of $100,000 ($50/hour, 40 hours/week), with weekly pay cycles
- Teaching certification not required; Spanish proficiency is beneficial
The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their target is to insist it's not complete. If this standard feels uncomfortable, the role may not align with your approach. If it energizes you because maintaining high expectations demonstrates your belief in their capability, continue reading.
Alpha School operates on a 2 Hour Learning framework: students in grades K-8 complete a full academic day's work in approximately two hours using adaptive learning technology. There are no lectures or traditional textbooks. Your responsibility is what the technology cannot provide — guiding children through essential life competencies including public speaking, concentration, collaboration, and constructive feedback exchange.
Approximately 60% of your time will involve individualized student coaching: reviewing learning platform dashboards and Coachbot data, identifying where a second grader struggles with fractions or a fifth grader resists reading assignments, then facilitating breakthrough. The remaining 40% involves facilitating interactive, hour-long skill-building sessions that resemble creative rehearsals more than conventional classroom instruction. All students must demonstrate mastery via Test2Pass evaluations before progression.
This position offers growth trajectory. You'll manage a dedicated student cohort and internalize Alpha's methodology during your first year. Demonstrate consistent ability to guide every student to 100% goal completion while maintaining strong satisfaction metrics, and advancement opportunities emerge to Lead Guide, then Campus Lead (overseeing entire school operations). You'll witness transformations like a child who avoided eye contact in September confidently presenting to an audience of parents by spring.
Consider applying if you believe seating 30 children in rows to listen passively to one adult underutilizes their true potential.
What you will be doing
- Guiding K-8 students individually and in focused groups through adaptive learning platforms, utilizing Coachbot analytics and performance dashboards to identify learning obstacles and their causes
- Implementing Alpha's motivational systems (leaderboards, reward structures, weekly objective-setting) to ensure each student progresses at the designated pace
- Facilitating hour-long, experiential life-skills sessions focused on public speaking, concentration, teamwork, and constructive feedback exchange (project-driven and participatory, not lecture-based)
- Conducting Test2Pass mastery evaluations and maintaining standards: students advance only after demonstrating genuine comprehension
- Cultivating student trust so rigorous accountability is experienced as motivational rather than punitive
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lectures or conventional academic lessons (students acquire core content through adaptive platforms, not direct instruction from you)
- Creating original lesson plans — Alpha supplies curriculum frameworks and implementation guides; your role is energizing execution and narrative engagement
- Evaluating homework assignments or preparing students for standardized testing; these elements don't exist in this model
- Handling parent communications or operational school matters — Campus Leads manage those responsibilities, allowing you to concentrate on your cohort
- Providing passive laptop supervision; active coaching is the core function, not monitoring
Key responsibilities
Guide a designated cohort of K-8 students to achieve 100% of their academic objectives and life-skills targets.
Candidate requirements
- Available to work on-site at Alpha's Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- 3+ years of direct, hands-on experience working with K-8 (kindergarten through 8th grade) students via teaching, tutoring, youth development programs, camps, or athletic coaching
- Demonstrated record of significant personal achievement in academic, athletic, or professional domains
- Legal authorization to work in the United States or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Bilingual fluency in English and Spanish to establish connection with students and families in the Dorado area
- Background in coaching environments where elevated standards produced quantifiable results (competitive athletics, debate teams, performing arts, or selective youth development programs)
- Track record facilitating youth workshops, summer programming, or after-school initiatives where you created activities rather than merely overseeing participants
- Prior exposure to adaptive or application-based educational platforms (such as Khan Academy, IXL, DreamBox)
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