Early Elementary Teacher

$100,000 USD/year ^{Pay is set based on global value, not the local market. Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks}  ($50 USD/hour)

• $100,000/year salary paid weekly, including health, dental, and vision coverage from day one
• 40-hour work week across five days, on-site at a single Alpha campus, relocation assistance available

You recognize a miscue the moment you hear it and can pinpoint the underlying gap: the vowel pattern she never mastered, the consonant blend he consistently guesses at. You will apply that skill here daily. What proves more challenging is what comes immediately after. When a six-year-old sits before you, on the edge of tears, the correct response is almost never simply providing the answer.

Alpha operates fundamentally differently from the schools where you received your training. Students complete their full academic core in approximately two hours each morning, progressing independently through AI-adaptive applications — no traditional instruction, no printed curriculum, no unified pacing calendar. The remainder of each day focuses on life-skills instruction. The adults in this environment are designated Guides rather than teachers, and this is not merely terminology: you will not be delivering curriculum. Your role is ensuring your students engage with their work, remain motivated to complete it, and overcome obstacles when the technology cannot support them.

You remain with the same group of students from morning opening through dismissal: core academics, workshops, lunch, recess, progress-tracking sessions. This sustained contact reveals insights no standardized assessment will capture. Within two weeks, you will identify which student is masking reading difficulties – moving through text fluently because she has memorized it from earlier in the week, not because she possesses genuine decoding ability.

Once you identify the deficit, no barriers prevent immediate intervention. No referral process, no committee approval, no waitlist. You gather two to four students and deliver a fifteen-minute targeted workshop addressing that precise error pattern — phoneme-grapheme correspondence, blending practice, decodable passages, whatever the situation demands — verify the skill has transferred, and return them to independent work.

You will not be drafting lesson plans for two dozen students late into the evening. Your preparation is focused and assessment-driven: identifying who requires support tomorrow, and determining what intervention will produce measurable progress. And you maintain the daily target without quietly compromising it, because families receive weekly performance data and will expect you to explain any gaps.

Alpha is launching campuses nationwide, and the constraint is individuals who can execute this model effectively. Those who demonstrate competence participate in hiring and training incoming Guides and develop the frameworks other campuses implement. Some transition into lead positions coaching entire teams, where the diagnostic judgment behind literacy instruction becomes the primary function. That advancement is performance-based, not automatic.

Your resume alone will not determine your fit. If what makes you effective in this work has never translated well to paper, that is precisely the insight we value.

We recruit from all regions, so job platforms may list this position in neighboring cities without current campuses. Active openings:

• AZ - Phoenix
• OK - Oklahoma City and Tulsa
• TX - Dallas, Fort Worth (Keller), Plano, and The Woodlands
• UT - Park City (Salt Lake City)

Interested in a different Alpha location? Submit your application, indicate your preferred campus, and we will direct you to the appropriate opening.