Elementary 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
• Five-day, 40-hour workweek on-site at a single Alpha campus, relocation assistance available

You listen to a student read and instantly identify the underlying gap: the vowel pattern she skipped over, the consonant blend he substitutes without thinking. That skill matters here every single day. The harder part is what comes next. When a six-year-old sits frozen in front of you, fighting back tears, the correct response is rarely to give them the answer.

Alpha operates nothing like the school environments you were trained for. Students complete their full academic core independently in roughly two hours each morning using AI-adaptive applications — no direct instruction, no printed curriculum, no shared pacing calendar. The remainder of the day focuses on life-skills instruction. Adults at Alpha are titled Guides, not teachers, and that distinction is intentional: you do not present content. Your role is to ensure your students complete their work, engage willingly with their work, and resolve obstacles the software cannot address.

You remain with the same group of students from morning launch through dismissal: core academics, workshops, lunch, recess, reflection time. That sustained proximity reveals information a formal assessment cannot capture. Within two weeks, you will identify the student who appears fluent — reading a passage smoothly because she memorized it earlier in the week, not because she has mastered decoding.

Once you identify the gap, nothing prevents you from addressing it immediately. No referral process, no approval meeting, no wait list. You convene two to four students and deliver a targeted fifteen-minute session designed for that specific error pattern — phoneme-grapheme correspondence, blending practice, decodable passages, whatever the need requires — verify transfer, and return them to independent work.

You are not drafting lesson plans for twenty-four children late into the evening. Your preparation is focused and assessment-driven: identifying who needs intervention tomorrow and what instruction will produce measurable progress. And you maintain the daily standard without quietly compromising it, because families review weekly performance data and expect you to explain any shortfall.

Alpha is expanding campuses nationally, and the limiting factor is people capable of executing this model effectively. Those who demonstrate proficiency help recruit and train incoming Guides and design the instructional protocols other sites implement. Some advance into lead coaching roles, where the diagnostic reasoning behind literacy instruction becomes the primary responsibility. That progression is earned through performance, not granted upon hire.

Your résumé will not determine this outcome. If the skills that make you effective have never translated neatly onto paper, that is precisely the point.

We recruit on a national basis, so job listings may appear in nearby cities without an active campus. Current openings include:

• 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.