Description
- On-site in Toronto, Canada
- $200,000 CAD/year
The kindest thing you can do for a struggling 8-year-old is hold the line. If that feels uncomfortable, this role isn't for you. If it resonates, continue reading.
Alpha has dismantled conventional instruction. Students advance through academics via adaptive applications at their own speed. No lectures. No grade-based limits. What remains—and matters most—is what technology cannot provide: the life skills, the drive, and the adult who maintains a standard each student didn't believe they could meet. That responsibility is yours.
Your day might begin coaching a Guide using Coachbot analytics, identifying where a cohort is falling behind. By midday you're facilitating a live workshop with K-8 students, executing a playbook activity on public speaking or feedback skills. Afternoons transition to motivation work: reviewing individual student progress data, activating Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and re-engaging a reluctant 7th grader. Forty percent workshops, thirty percent motivation, thirty percent coaching. You manage your own student cohort throughout, ensuring your coaching remains grounded in practice, not theory.
You've likely been told you care too much about outcomes for education. Too metrics-focused. Too willing to maintain boundaries that make other adults uneasy. Alpha was designed for that person. You demonstrate the model's effectiveness with your own students, elevate the Guides (Alpha's teacher equivalent) around you to that same standard, and as you produce results, your influence over campus-wide program quality expands.
Hold the standard. Transform the student. Apply now.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour live workshops on life skills (public speaking, focus, giving and receiving feedback) for K-8 students, executing Alpha's playbook
- Conducting motivation sessions leveraging Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive system (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% student goal completion
- Coaching Guides on program fidelity and standards enforcement, ensuring every session yields concrete improvement actions
- Managing your own student cohort to keep your coaching rooted in direct, firsthand experience
- Monitoring student satisfaction scores, goal completion rates, and Guide performance metrics weekly to identify underperformance early
What you will NOT be doing
- Teaching math, reading, or any academic content — adaptive apps manage all academic instruction
- Creating curriculum or designing workshop activities (Alpha's playbook serves as your operating system; the focus is execution quality)
- Coaching Guides on instructional technique (Guides don't teach — you're coaching energy, motivation, and accountability)
- Overseeing campus operations, budgets, or administrative logistics
- Lowering standards when a student is close but hasn't met the bar (the standard remains fixed; your role is to help them reach it)
Key responsibilities
Deliver Alpha's three promises to every student: loving school, learning at twice the traditional pace, and building real-world life skills.
Candidate requirements
- On-site in Toronto, Canada (not remote or hybrid)
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or a related field
- At least 5 years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, or a related field
- Led a team of 5 or more people, including hiring and terminating based on performance outcomes
- Direct experience working with youth ages 5-14 in an educational or developmental setting
- Built, launched, or significantly grew a program, team, school, or initiative — not just inherited or maintained one
- Comfortable working in a school that explicitly rejects traditional pedagogy
- Legal authorization to work in Canada
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or a related field
- Coached athletics, led experiential programs, directed camps, or ran youth programs at a scale that required managing cohorts and measuring outcomes
- Left classroom teaching to build or run programs from a different seat (EdTech, tutoring businesses, youth nonprofits, school intervention teams)
- Experience using learning analytics platforms to make weekly coaching decisions
- Belief that the current education system is fundamentally broken and personal investment in rebuilding it
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