Description
- Based on-site at Alpha School's Dorado, Puerto Rico location
- Annual compensation of $100,000 ($50/hour, 40-hour workweek), distributed weekly
- Formal teaching credentials not required; Spanish language proficiency is valuable
The greatest support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their objective is to insist the work is incomplete. If this standard troubles you, this position is not the right fit. If it energizes you—because maintaining expectations demonstrates your belief in a child's potential—continue reading.
Alpha School operates on the 2 Hour Learning framework: students in grades K-8 complete a full academic day in roughly two hours using adaptive technology platforms. No traditional lectures. No conventional textbooks. Your responsibility centers on what technology cannot replicate—guiding children through essential competencies such as public speaking, sustained attention, collaboration, and constructive feedback exchange.
Approximately 60% of your time will focus on individualized coaching: reviewing learning platform dashboards and Coachbot data, identifying where an eight-year-old struggles with fractions or a fifth grader resists reading assignments, then facilitating breakthroughs. The remaining 40% involves facilitating dynamic, hour-long skill-building sessions that resemble improvisation practice more than conventional classroom instruction. All students must demonstrate mastery via Test2Pass evaluations before progression.
This position offers growth trajectory. You'll guide a dedicated cohort and internalize Alpha's methodology during your first year. Demonstrate your ability to maintain 100% goal achievement across your students while sustaining strong satisfaction metrics, and advancement opportunities emerge—first to Lead Guide, then Campus Lead (overseeing full school operations). You'll witness transformations: a child unable to sustain eye contact in September confidently presenting to a parent audience by spring.
Apply if you believe placing 30 children in rows to passively listen to one adult fundamentally underestimates what children can accomplish.
What you will be doing
- Guiding K-8 students individually and in focused groups through adaptive technology platforms, leveraging Coachbot analytics and interface dashboards to identify learning obstacles and root causes
- Implementing Alpha's motivational system (competitive leaderboards, recognition incentives, weekly objective-setting) to ensure every student progresses at target velocity
- Facilitating hour-long, experiential life-competency workshops covering public speaking, sustained focus, collaborative teamwork, and constructive feedback practices (project-driven and participatory, never didactic)
- 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 restrictive
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lectures or conventional academic content (students acquire core subject knowledge through adaptive platforms, not direct instruction from you)
- Developing original lesson plans—Alpha supplies curriculum frameworks and implementation guides; your role is animating them through presence and narrative
- Evaluating homework assignments or preparing students for standardized examinations; these elements don't exist in this model
- Handling family communications or operational logistics—Campus Leads manage those functions, allowing you to concentrate on your cohort
- Providing passive technology supervision; if you're not actively coaching, you're not fulfilling the role
Key responsibilities
Guide a designated cohort of K-8 students to achieve 100% of their academic and life-skills objectives.
Candidate requirements
- Available to work in-person at Alpha's Dorado, Puerto Rico campus
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline
- 3+ years of direct, practical experience working with K-8 (kindergarten through 8th grade) students via teaching, tutoring, youth development programs, camps, or athletic coaching
- Track record of notable personal accomplishment in academic, athletic, or professional domains
- Capacity to captivate groups of K-8 students through dynamic, participatory workshop delivery
- Proven capability to inspire young people through challenges and toward elevated goals
- Leadership presence and exemplary conduct that balances rigorous expectations with substantial support
- Legal authorization to work 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
- Coaching experience in settings where elevated standards produced quantifiable results (competitive athletics, debate competition, performing arts, or selective youth development initiatives)
- Background facilitating youth workshops, summer programming, or after-school initiatives where you created activities rather than simply overseeing them
- Working knowledge of adaptive or application-based learning systems (e.g., Khan Academy, IXL, DreamBox)
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