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Description
- $120,000 annual W2 salary paid weekly; health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
- Full-time position (40 hours per week), on-site at Alpha School's Kirkland, WA campus (temporary assignment at a different Alpha campus may occur prior to Kirkland opening)
- Valid Washington State Teaching Certificate mandatory. No certificate means no interview.
You hold a WA teaching certificate. The real question is whether you still want to fill your days with lectures, grading papers, and delivering standardized curriculum to every student.
Your role here is not traditional teaching. You motivate. The most powerful support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their weekly target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that idea makes you uneasy, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards demonstrates your belief in a student's ability to reach them, continue reading.
At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-driven adaptive applications. No lectures. No textbooks. No lesson plans consuming your Sunday evenings. Approximately 60% of your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback. Roughly 30% involves individual or small-group sessions where you review Coachbot analytics and drive each student toward their weekly app progression goals. The remaining 10% is data analysis that informs your coaching strategy for the following week. You will not follow a rigid script; top performers in this position customize workshops and create new content when they identify needs.
Excellence in this role is not defined by "engaging activities." It is measured by improvement. A successful semester means at least 90% of your cohort demonstrates pre-to-post growth on Test2Pass, at least 90% achieves their weekly learning-app progression benchmarks, and students rate their experience with you at 4 out of 5 or higher. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role is not the right fit. As you demonstrate your ability to maintain high expectations, advancement opportunities open to Lead Guide—mentoring newer Guides while continuing to run a cohort—and eventually to Campus Lead.
If you prefer ready-made curriculum, or think warmth and rigorous standards cannot coexist, this position is not suitable. If your WA certificate is current and you are motivated by coaching K-8 students toward tangible outcomes rather than lecturing from a textbook, submit your application today.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback, customizing existing frameworks and creating new sessions when you identify missing elements
- Administering Test2Pass pre- and post-assessments and coaching students who have not achieved mastery until they demonstrate competency
- Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student toward their weekly app progression benchmarks, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your rapport with each student to overcome resistance
- Analyzing weekly performance data, identifying struggling students early, and implementing corrective interventions within the same week
- Serving as the adult who maintains high standards and the adult students trust; warmth creates the foundation to challenge, and challenging demonstrates your confidence in their capability
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering whiteboard lectures or preparing daily lesson plans; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you
- Creating curriculum from the ground up; you deliver an established playbook with energy and narrative skill
- Passively monitoring students at computers or allowing them to drift without direction; motivation here is active, individualized, and persistent
- Reducing a weekly target or advancing a student without demonstrated mastery to maintain schedule or avoid difficult discussions
- Grading assignments or handling parent communications
Key responsibilities
Coach a K-8 cohort to measurable mastery of life skills and weekly learning-app progression benchmarks.
Candidate requirements
- Active, valid Washington State Teaching Certificate (issued by WA OSPI) or capacity to obtain it promptly
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline
- Able to work full-time (40 hours per week) on-site at Alpha School's Kirkland, WA campus (with possible temporary assignment at another Alpha campus if Kirkland has not yet opened)
- Comfortable allowing AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Background working with K-8 students in any setting (classroom teaching, tutoring, sports, debate, theater, camps, or after-school programming)
- Demonstrated history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others accountable to rigorous standards is natural rather than performative
- Storytelling ability and stage presence capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
- Proven ability to transform disengaged or resistant students into active, motivated participants
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