Description
- On-site role at Alpha School's campus in Dorado, Puerto Rico
- $100,000 annual salary ($50/hour, 40 hours per week), with weekly pay
- Teaching certification not required; Spanish fluency is an asset
The greatest support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their target is to insist it's not complete. If that principle feels harsh, this position won't suit you. If it resonates because maintaining standards is your way of demonstrating belief in a child's potential, continue reading.
Alpha School operates on a 2 Hour Learning framework: students in grades K-8 complete a full day's worth of academics in roughly two hours via adaptive learning technology. No traditional lectures. No physical textbooks. Your responsibility covers what the software cannot — guiding students through essential life competencies including public speaking, concentration, collaboration, and constructive feedback exchange.
Approximately 60% of your time will involve individualized motivation work: reviewing learning platform dashboards and Coachbot data, identifying where a third-grader struggles with fractions or a fifth-grader resists reading assignments, then facilitating breakthrough. The remaining 40% consists of leading engaging, hour-long skill-building sessions that resemble improv practice more than conventional classroom instruction. All students must demonstrate mastery via Test2Pass evaluations before progression.
This position offers growth trajectory. You'll manage a small student group and internalize Alpha's methodology during your first year. Demonstrate consistent ability to guide every student toward 100% goal completion while maintaining strong satisfaction metrics, and advancement opportunities emerge — first to Lead Guide, then to Campus Lead (overseeing an entire school). You'll witness a child who avoided eye contact in September confidently present to a room of parents by spring.
Apply if you believe that seating 30 children in rows to listen to one adult undermines what young people are capable of achieving.
What you will be doing
- Providing individualized and small-group coaching to K-8 students working through adaptive learning platforms, leveraging Coachbot analytics and data dashboards to identify points of difficulty
- Implementing Alpha's motivational methodology (leaderboards, reward systems, weekly target-setting) to ensure every student progresses at the anticipated rate
- Facilitating hour-long, experiential life-competency workshops covering public speaking, concentration, teamwork, and feedback skills (project-driven and participatory, never lecture-format)
- Overseeing Test2Pass mastery evaluations and maintaining standards: students advance only after demonstrating genuine understanding
- Cultivating trust relationships with students so rigorous accountability feels empowering rather than discouraging
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lectures or conventional academic instruction (core content is learned through adaptive applications, not direct teaching)
- Creating lesson plans independently — Alpha supplies curriculum and frameworks; you execute them with enthusiasm and narrative skill
- Correcting homework assignments or preparing students for standardized examinations; these elements don't exist in this model
- Handling parent communications or operational school matters — Campus Leads manage those areas, allowing you to concentrate on your student cohort
- Providing passive supervision while students work on devices; active coaching is the core function
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 programs, camps, or athletic coaching
- Demonstrated record of significant personal achievement in academic, athletic, or professional domains
- Authorization to work legally in the United States or Puerto Rico without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish to strengthen 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)
- Track record leading youth workshops, summer camps, or after-school programming where you created activities rather than simply monitored
- Prior exposure to adaptive or app-based educational platforms (such as Khan Academy, IXL, DreamBox)
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