Description
- On-site role at Alpha School's campus in Dorado, Puerto Rico
- Annual compensation of $100,000 ($50/hour, 40 hours weekly), paid each week
- Teaching certification not required; fluency in Spanish is beneficial
The most caring action you can take for a student who reached 99% of their target is to decline declaring it complete. If that expectation troubles you, this position is not the right fit. If it energizes you because upholding that standard is your way of showing a child you believe in their capability, continue reading.
Alpha School operates on a 2 Hour Learning framework: students in grades K-8 complete a full day's worth of academic work in roughly two hours using adaptive learning technology. There are no lectures. There are no textbooks. Your role encompasses what the software cannot accomplish — developing students' life competencies such as public speaking, concentration, collaboration, and feedback exchange.
Approximately 60% of your time will be dedicated to individual student motivation: reviewing learning platform dashboards and Coachbot data, identifying where a third-grader is struggling with fractions or a fifth-grader is avoiding reading assignments, and helping them overcome those barriers. The remaining 40% involves facilitating interactive, hour-long workshops that resemble improv sessions more than traditional instruction. All students must demonstrate mastery via Test2Pass assessments before progressing.
This position offers growth. You'll manage a small student group and become fluent in Alpha's methodology during your first year. Demonstrate your ability to guide every student to 100% goal achievement while maintaining strong satisfaction metrics, and you can advance to Lead Guide, then Campus Lead (managing an entire school site). You'll observe a child who struggled with eye contact in September confidently present to a room full of parents by the end of the school year.
Apply if you believe that seating 30 children in rows to listen to a single adult undermines what children are capable of achieving.
What you will be doing
- Guiding K-8 students individually and in small groups through adaptive learning platforms, leveraging Coachbot analytics and dashboards to identify struggling students and root causes
- Implementing Alpha's motivational system (leaderboards, incentive structures, weekly target-setting) to ensure every student progresses at the anticipated rate
- Facilitating hour-long, experiential life-skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, collaboration, and feedback exchange (project-driven and interactive, never lecture-based)
- Conducting Test2Pass mastery assessments and maintaining standards: students do not progress until they clearly demonstrate comprehension
- Developing trust with students so that rigorous accountability is experienced as motivating rather than punitive
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lectures or conventional academic instruction (core subjects are learned through adaptive platforms, not through your direct teaching)
- Creating lesson plans from the ground up — Alpha supplies the curriculum and instructional guides; you animate them with enthusiasm and narrative skill
- Grading 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 are responsible for those, allowing you to concentrate on your student cohort
- Passively overseeing children using laptops; if you are not actively coaching, you are not fulfilling the 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 working with K-8 (kindergarten through 8th grade) students via teaching, tutoring, youth programming, camps, or athletic coaching
- Record of significant personal achievement in academic, athletic, or professional domains
- Capacity to lead groups of K-8 students through energetic, interactive workshop sessions
- Proven ability to inspire young people through challenges and toward ambitious objectives
- Leadership and exemplary conduct that balances rigorous standards with meaningful support
- Authorization to work legally in the United States or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish for establishing rapport with students and families in the Dorado area
- Coaching experience where elevated standards produced quantifiable results (competitive athletics, debate, performing arts, or selective youth initiatives)
- Background facilitating youth workshops, summer camps, or after-school programming where you created the activities rather than simply overseeing them
- Knowledge of adaptive or application-based learning systems (e.g., Khan Academy, IXL, DreamBox)
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