Learning Coach

$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 annual salary, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• 40-hour workweek across five days, on-site at a single Alpha campus, relocation assistance available

You recognize a miscue instantly and can identify the underlying gap: the vowel pattern she never mastered, the blend he approximates rather than reads. That skill will be essential here. The challenge comes in what follows. When a first-grader sits before you, struggling and near tears, the correct response is rarely to simply provide the answer.

Alpha operates fundamentally differently from traditional schools. Students complete their core academic work in roughly two hours each morning using AI-adaptive applications—no classroom instruction, no printed curriculum, no predetermined pacing. The remainder of the day focuses on life-skills development. Staff members are designated as Guides rather than teachers, and the distinction is deliberate: your role is not content delivery. You ensure students engage with their work, maintain motivation, and navigate obstacles the application cannot resolve.

You remain with the same group from morning opening through dismissal: core academics, workshop sessions, meals, outdoor time, reflection activities. This continuous presence reveals insights no formal assessment can capture. Within two weeks, you will identify the student who appears fluent—reading passages smoothly because she has memorized them, not because she possesses true decoding skills.

Once you identify a gap, you address it immediately. No referral process, no team meeting, no waiting list. You gather two to four children and deliver a targeted fifteen-minute intervention designed for their specific error pattern—phoneme-grapheme correspondence, blending practice, decodable passages, whatever the data indicates—verify transfer, then return them to independent work.

You will not spend late evenings creating individualized plans for twenty-four students. Your preparation is targeted and assessment-driven: which students require support tomorrow, and what instruction will produce measurable progress. You maintain rigorous daily objectives without compromise, because families receive weekly performance data and expect you to articulate specific gaps.

Alpha is expanding campuses nationwide, and qualified personnel represent the primary constraint. Those who demonstrate excellence participate in recruiting and training incoming Guides and develop programming implemented across multiple sites. Some advance to leadership positions coaching teams, where the diagnostic reasoning underlying literacy instruction becomes the central responsibility. These opportunities are performance-based, not guaranteed at hire.

Your résumé alone will not determine your candidacy. If your strengths have never translated neatly to traditional application materials, that is precisely the point.

We conduct national recruitment, so job listings may appear in cities near campuses rather than at exact locations. Current opportunities:

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

Prefer a different Alpha location? Submit your application, indicate your preferred campus, and we will direct you appropriately.